If anyone has every told you that they see music they listen to, they have synesthesia. It’s a fascinating neurological phenomenon where people experience crossed responses to stimuli, and no one knows exactly how common this is. A rough estimate claims that one in every 5,000 to 100,000 people is a synesthete, but it could...
Engineers are hard at work trying to find ways to make virtual experiences even more intimate for the participants, including Wolverine-like claws, exoskeleton gloves that tug on each finger and VR boots. Haptic devices want to let us feel our way through virtual spaces, giving realistic feedback as we touch different objects as well as grab, push, and...
Holographic technology company 8i is announcing today that it has raised a $27 million series B round of fundraising for the development of new products including its new smartphone hologram program: Holo. Holo’s tagline encourages users to: mix your world with holograms. According to 8i, Holo is a: “…Consumer mobile app that gives people an...
Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. We first reported on 8i back in 2015, when they unveiled their 360 volumetric video capture system, capable of capturing imagery and data...
Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but tracking quality is a common complaint from users. A new patent from the company, however, suggests it could be working on a fix for that. A new patent from Sony Interactive Entertainment, filed last year and published earlier this month, reveals the company is working on...
Some superheroes are just annoying. Take Hal Jordan, for example, the most popular Green Lantern. Though he may have matured into a grizzled veteran over time, his early days as a member of the space police cast him as a cocky pretty boy that grated on his fellow members of the Justice League. I never...
Showing off what Microsoft’s HoloLens mixed reality can do is difficult without actually putting it on someone’s head, but the company’s new camera hack is providing a helping hand. Whenever we’ve seen HoloLens on-stage at shows like E3, or Microsoft’s own press conferences, the company will have one person wearing the kit, while the audience sees...
Robinson: The Journey’s recent Steam release got off to a rocky start with a fatal bug which prevented players from even starting the game. Today, a 140MB patch from Crytek appears to have fixed the problem. Yesterday we reported on Robinson: The Journey’s launch on Steam which lacks support for the platform’s most populous VR headset,...
Mimesys, whose core focus has always been about creating holographic representations of humans for virtual and augmented reality, has released a video showing off their holographic communication platform in action. This new communication tool uses a combination of virtual reality, with the HTC Vive and a Kinect, and mixed reality, with the HoloLens, to allow...
Some days the sun shines, birds sing and everything is right in the world. But other days, clouds loom, birds leave a mess and the world goes sideways and you feel like knocking something over. Boston-based developer Fire Hose Games made King Kaiju, which left Steam Early Access Jan. 31, for the latter kinds of...
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