GUEST: Are brands ready for mixed reality? The answer is a resounding no! Fortunately, there’s still time left to prepare for one of the biggest digital transformations of all time. Reports suggest that a collection of the world’s leading tech companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, Huawei, LG, Acer, Intel, Meta, Magic Leap, and ODG are all...
When you think of Oculus you typically think of one thing: virtual reality. The young company popularized VR for an entirely new generation of true believers and is largely responsible for sparking the immersive renaissance we find ourselves in today. However, ever since the startup was acquired by Facebook in 2014, the writing was on...
If you’ve played the game Portal by Valve before, you’ve most likely popped one portal onto the ceiling and another directly below it on the floor, dropped your Companion Cube in, and then watched it fall forever. Well, now it has been done in real life, in an actual hallway, not in a rendered world....
360-degree media production companies are becoming more and more important as companies reach out for creative ways to market their products, share their creative visions, and even educate their employees. SubVRsive, a team that has worked with MTV and has even earned an Emmy nomination for their collaboration with Showtime, announced that they’ve completed a...
For many people, the end-all be-all of virtual reality is being able to get up and move around inside of a digital space with roomscale. With the HTC Vive, you set up lighthouse base stations in opposite corners of your play space and the system tracks your movement in 3D space around your entire room....
Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed series roots its fiction deep in virtual reality within the game world, but could we soon see a new entry in the franchise for today’s real-life headsets? Judging by a recent post on design website Dribbble, the company could at least be working on something tied to the series internally. UI and...
We have yet to see a solution for full body tracking that is affordable, easy to use, and can work in a wide range of VR experiences. That’s not keeping developers from forging ahead anyway though. The prize for developers creating virtual worlds and implementing full body tracking is a more immersive experience overall. You’d have...
Koei Tecmo, the Japan-based publisher that brought you Dynasty Warriors, Dead or Alive and Ninja Gaiden series, have today unveiled a VR arcade cabinet that is more than just an enclosure for a PlayStation VR headset. Called VR Sense, the cabinet is said to embody a few technologies including a motion-simulating seat, a scent function, a wind function, a thermal function,...
HTC recently released a document (PDF) detailing how its upcoming Tracker is supposed to function. The small puck-sized unit is meant to be attached to a range of objects and accessories, bringing physical guns, baseball bats, phones, cameras and much more into virtual reality with you. The Tracker holds enormous promise for extending 1:1 physical...
The original Psychonauts is the definition of a cult-classic. Tim Schafer spent over a decade at LucasArts making comedic adventure games like Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle, and The Secret of Monkey Island. Eventually, he left LucasArts to found his own game studio, Double Fine Productions, and their first game was a third-person platforming adventure...
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