Display technology maker DigiLens has raised $22 million to create better augmented reality and virtual reality products in which digital information lies on top of transparent glass. The Sunnyvale, California-based company makes diffractive optical waveguide technology and nanomaterials for AR and VR, which could be a $108 billion market by 2021, according to tech advisor...
HTC has launched a $10 million virtual reality fund for content and technologies that will drive sustainable development around the world. Taiwan-based HTC makes the HTC Vive VR headset, and its VR for Impact program was unveiled at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. VR is expected to be a $25 billion industry by...
Students from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center have been working on an augmented reality system to help teach music in a project called Music Everywhere. This application for the Microsoft HoloLens would utilize holograms to visually instruct the user and teach them how to play an instrument in the process. Music Everywhere would also...
25 years ago, the cult sci-fi classic 1992 film “The Lawnmower Man” transported audiences into a thrilling narrative built on virtual reality. In it, a young man with mental disability (Jobe Smith, played by Jeff Fahey) uses VR to evolve intellectually at an incredible pace. The film takes an incredibly dark turn, though, and essentially...
Watching 360-degree content inside a VR headset can be an amazing experience, but only if the image is clear enough. The European Union wants to help with that. The EU’s research and innovation program, Horizon 2020, is devoting a portion of its funding to a group of pioneering video companies and film festivals, including reelport,...
Applied Visualisation Forum is a one-day gathering to hear first-hand experiences from industry experts working in the medical, construction and transport sectors on the effective use of visualisation to drive innovation and business opportunities. The forum encourages those working in the field of visualisation and virtual reality (VR) to share their expertise, good practice, hardware and software advances and application in VR,...
Drums are cool. Everyone knows it. When you were a kid playing in a rock band with your friends the two hottest spots were lead guitar and drums. And then, when you were playing Rock Band as a teenager or adult, that plastic kit made you feel both talented and grateful that you weren’t stuck...
At CES earlier this month, HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking device which taps into the Vive’s Lighthouse tracking system, and which can be attached to objects to track them in VR, including purpose-built accessories. The company plans to have an official certification process for accessory makers. The Vive Tracker is a standalone...
Augmented and virtual reality are slowly but surely being integrated into shopping experiences worldwide. At CES for example, GAP and Asus teamed up for an AR shopping app that may point toward the future of mobile shopping engagement. And previously we covered Adidas and their promotion of a new soccer shoe using virtual reality throughout Europe....
Following Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance earlier this week, Oculus founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe answered questions in the company’s ongoing legal battle with ZeniMax Media over the alleged theft of VR technology. Luckey got into the nitty-gritty details about the origins of the Oculus Rift and more on Wednesday. Luckey faced questions from both prosecution and defense. The...
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