Virtual reality with a side of fries: McDonald’s Sweden is releasing Happy Meal boxes that transform into VR headsets. The post McDonald’s Is Transforming Happy Meal Boxes Into VR Headsets appeared first on WIRED. Source: McDonald’s Is Transforming Happy Meal Boxes Into VR Headsets
Month: March 2017
Google Is Bringing Its VR Field Trips to Even More Schools
The Google Expeditions program is about to launch a beta version of its app for Android, but only teachers and schools need apply. The post Google Is Bringing Its VR Field Trips to Even More Schools appeared first on WIRED. Source: Google Is Bringing Its VR Field Trips to Even More Schools
Robo Recall Officially Gets 360 Tracking Support in Latest Update
Robo Recall [Review: 7.5/10] is one of the biggest VR games the young VR market has seen thus far. It’s developed by game industry veterans at Epic Games, creators of Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, and many others, and is funded by Oculus as a free title exclusive for the Rift and Touch platform. In...
Palmer Luckey’s Departure From Oculus Highlights Raised Stakes For VR
The above tweet comes from May 17, 2012, almost five years ago now, with John Carmack showing off the early prototype of the Rift he received from Palmer Luckey. This tweet helps mark the beginning of a journey that drove interest in VR to include millions of people. A lot can change in five years....
SVVR 2017: Watch Our 360 Video of a Full Body Artec 3D Scan
At the 2017 Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) expo this week, we saw a lot of cool new tech. Some of it was VR, some if it was AR, and some of it was something else entirely. During the show, we livestreamed from the floor in 360-degrees using an Insta360 Air and one of the...
Testing the Future of AR Optics with Avegant Light Fields
UploadVR paid a visit to the Avegant offices in California last week to try out its prototype light field display. Avegant is best known in the VR/AR scene right now as the creators of the Glyph — a headset that puts users inside their own virtual movie theater. The Glyph arrived at an awkward stage...
‘Ghost in the Shell’ VR Experience is an Awe-Inspiring Deep Dive into the Mind of Major
The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) film starring Scarlett Johansson is already in theaters worldwide, but Oculus has today published the VR experience so you can get a slice of the android-kicking action direct on your Gear VR or Oculus Rift. Created by VR studio Here Be Dragons in partnership with Oculus Studios and Paramount Pictures, the Ghost in...
B2B Software Company Kaon Bets Big on Google's Tango Phones & AR
At the moment, it would be safe to say that demand for devices running Tango, Google’s augmented reality smartphone platform, is relatively low among consumers. Kaon Interactive, a B2B software company who has built more than 5,000 interactive applications for use at trade shows, remote sales demonstrations, and other customer engagements, is betting that there...
Top 7 Biggest VR Stories Of 2017…So Far
It’s hard to believe that we’re already a quarter of the way through 2017. It feels like just yesterday the Upload team was gathered in Las Vegas to kick the year off at CES. We thought that might be the biggest week VR would have yet seen, but it’s already been bested by a number...
Giant Cop: Justice Above All Review – Big Trouble In Micro City
When I first saw Giant Cop early last year, it was one of VR’s very best tech demos. How could it not be? Towering over a city block, picking up civilians and mercilessly dangling them like a key chain, or throwing them across the map was one of the most amusing and entertaining things I’d...