Tired of your cramped apartment, its moldering walls, battered furniture, and the fact that it isn’t on a pirate island or in outer space? Well, researchers have now managed to use Google’s Tango platform to create a simple app that allows you to scan your home and then walk through it in VR. The interior...
Looking to lower the barrier of entry for VR, CyberPower Inc., a custom PC manufacturer, recently announced a new Oculus ready gaming system that could just convince you to take the plunge into virtual reality. Dubbed the ‘Gamer Ultra VR Desktop’, the custom PC was created in partnership with AMD and Oculus, and being bundled with the Oculus...
Lenovo made a lot of headlines last week during CES with its variety of laptop and desktop computers, lackluster VR upscaling, and the (non-functional) debut of their Windows holographic VR headset. Through it all though, one bit of news went a bit under the radar, as the company announced they’ll be joining forces with wearable...
After having teased the tech toward the end of last year, we’ve finally gone hands-on with HypeVR’s volumetric video captures which lets you move around inside of VR videos. Inherent Limitations of 360 Video Today’s most immersive VR video productions are shot in 360 degree video and 3D. Properly executed 360 3D video content can...
VR is a platform where the tech itself is continuing to evolve as developers tackle input challenges and locomotion, so the individual genres also have experiences that are different from each other. The virtual reality ecosystem is diverse as a result of this, but can also be a challenge to pick through with some unrecognizable names...
Rock Band has never really made me feel like a rock star on the account of my being rather poor at it. Sure, I could rack up some five star ratings on Normal mode after a few weeks’ practice, but anything on Hard difficulty or above, where the note structures best resemble the songs you’re...
Here’s our favorite photos from CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week. We browsed the show floors across multiple convention centers, with tech products from nearly 4,000 exhibitors covering 2.6 million square feet of space. We were among an estimated 165,000 attendees. We walked for miles and took pictures of...
Japanese tech startup Xenoma showed its e-skin motion capture shirt at CES 2017, the big tech trade show last week in Las Vegas. The e-skin translates your body’s movements into digital form, which can then be used to control a character in a video game. But the shirt can also be used to train athletes...
Google has announced that it’s opening up its Tango augmented reality (AR) platform to museums from today, kicking off with the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). Google’s Tango platform uses computer vision to make mobile devices location-aware, relative to their surroundings — without relying on external systems, such as GPS, Wi-Fi, or sensors. This is...
Unless overuse of VR headsets has granted them telepathic super powers, it would have been pretty hard for any one person to predict everything that happened to the VR industry in 2016. We’ve recapped what happened to each of the major headsets last year (for Rift, Vive, and PS VR), and it was pretty exhausting...
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