In mid-October we learned about an upcoming VR experience was in development to accompany the theatrical release of the Assassin’s Creed feature film starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Inglourious Basterds). As it turns out, the project is a large-scale collaboration between AMD, Alienware, Practical Magic, 20th Century Fox, New Regency, and...
Month: December 2016
ODG Raises $58 Million Series A Investment for AR Glasses, New Products to Debut in January
San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they’ve raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. ODG’s current flagship device is the enterprise-focused R-7 Smartglasses System which sell for $2,750 a pop. The HMD, which has a small ~37 degree field of view...
Star Wars Battlefront ‘X-Wing VR Mission’ Playable at PlayStation Experience This Weekend
The lengthily-named Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission is due to launch free for all owners of the PS4 version of Star Wars Battlefront on December 6th. Developed exclusively for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, it will be playable by attendees at this weekend’s PlayStation Experience event in California. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,...
Everything Wrong with Traditional Data Visualization and How VR is Poised to Fix It
Data visualization is one of a handful of topics that VR evangelists like to count off on their fingers as spaces that virtual reality could radically change. But how, exactly? And what’s wrong with data visualization today? This article digs into specific issues with traditional data visualization and the challenges of understanding abstract information, and how...
Cultivating Plausibility & Presence in VR with the Concept of the ‘VR Fidelity Contract’
Cultivating presence is one of the main goals for a lot of VR experiences, but our brains are like a black box of perceptual soup that makes it hard to know all of the right ingredients to achieve this. Kimberly Voll is a cognitive scientist, programmer, and VR developer who is a part of the...
Unity 5.5 Update Brings Microsoft Hololens Integration And More
The Unity game engine is a versatile tool that developers, from beginners to those well-versed, utilize to fully realize their video game concepts. This year alone it provided a slew of games like Firewatch, Oxenfree, I Am Setsuna, Pokemon Go, ReCore, and the upcoming Cuphead. The engine’s latest update, 5.5, includes a collection of new...