Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | Photo courtesy Facebook Facebook’s 2017 F8 developer event has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. With sessions covering topics such as research, analytics and...
Within premiered their first real-time rendered, interactive experience at Sundance New Frontier this year with Life of Us, which is the story of life on the planet as told through embodying a series of characters who are evolving into humans. The experience is somewhere between a film and game, and ends up feeling much like...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again affirmed his belief in the significance of augmented reality technology. Interviewed during a recent trip to Europe, he spoke broadly about how AR could benefit everyone’s lives in the future, highlighting the way it allows users to remain ‘present’ in the real world. Underscored by years of relevant hiring...
Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. These awards honor the year’s best in “cutting edge content and technology achievement.” This year, virtual and augmented reality were well represented throughout the ceremony. Check out this list of tonight’s biggest VR/AR winners. Cher Wang – HTC Vive AIS-VR Society President Jim...
Half-Life 3 is a mythological beast. Most people know it’s not real, but you’ll never convince a handful of dedicated investigators who pour over every blurry photo and alleged Gabe Newell footprints found in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. Above: I don’t know. Looks like Bigfoot to me. Image Credit: Valve Now, Valve is...
Magic Leap has raised an astounding $1.4 billion for its augmented reality smartglasses since 2014. But the company has run into considerable negative publicity lately, including a leaked photo that showed that the technology might be further behind than its CEO has claimed. The negativity started in December when tech news site The Information said...
Holographic-tech startup 8i is announcing that it has raised $27 million from media, tech, and telecommunications strategic investors. The company is also announcing Holo, a consumer mobile augmented reality app that lets people express themselves with funny holograms. Time Warner led the round, and other investors included Baidu, Hearst, Verizon, One Ventures, Seed & Speed, and existing...
Valve is evolving how developers can get onto its Steam store to sell PC games, and one of the reasons it’s doing that is because the company is uncomfortable choosing which games you have access to. The Steam platform controls a significant percentage of the PC gaming market — 50 percent to 70 percent of...
Anyone who’s ever used virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), or mixed reality (MR) goggles will likely have tried to explain to others what they’re seeing in their digitally reconstructed worlds. But there isn’t really an easy way of showing people what they’re experiencing without handing the headset over to someone else. And that’s why...
Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. These awards honor the year’s greatest achievements in photography and the visual arts. This year, virtual and augmented reality were well represented throughout the ceremony. Check out this list of tonight’s biggest VR/AR winners. Cher Wang – HTC Vive AIS-VR Society President Jim...
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