Akonia Holographics, a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. It didn’t succeed, but now it found a new use for the same technology. The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion...
As more filmmakers dip a toe into VR, the sheer volume of 360-degree video releases can be overwhelming. Samsung today just released its top five most viewed videos on its Samsung VR service in 2016, including The Conjuring 2 – Experience Enfield VR 360 and a couple of Six Flags rides, Twisted Colossus and Tatsu. Apparently the most-viewed video on...
Cheerful non-denominational late-December greetings to all of you (see? I know how to be a successful journalist in this day and age). What many have spent the last 12 months calling the “year of virtual reality” is about to come to an end. 2016 was, in many ways, a mind-destroying procession of events that would each...
Virtual reality is a young industry and, in its youth, many are scrambling to see what best practices will raise this budding market into the strong and healthy grown up industry it needs to become to sustain success. With so many trying different things, best practices can get lost in the shuffle. Khronos Group is...
The Oculus Rift is amazing. And this month it got even more amazing. Oculus Touch released on December 6 and boy, oh boy, did it bring some fantastic games along with it. In the face of such an incredible innovation we realized we had to update our top Rift games list to include these new...
Back at PAX West, I had the pleasure of playing an early build of Stifled by Gattai Games running in VR — it’s a survival horror game with a unique twist. The game’s use of dark blacks and stark white lines to convey its aesthetics is visually arresting. As you move around the environment each step...
Google has attracted top talent to make content for its Daydream platform, though it’s not doing the best job of telling you about it. For instance, did you know that a new game from the developers of That Dragon, Cancer was released for the mobile VR ecosystem this month? Well it was, and it’s a...
Almost immediately developers have tried to harness virtual reality’s space for infinite creativity. Tilt Brush and applications like it put various tools in the user’s hands and allow them to run wild with a virtual canvas. SculptrVR is of the same vein and revolves around building with voxels, but the program also offers an additional...
Aerix is making an industry out of selling small-to-absurdly tiny remote control drones. Sized and designed for indoor use, small drones seem like a swell idea for people who don’t want to go outside, but have some distinct disadvantages. Well, one disadvantage really: they are absurdly hard to fly. As one of Aerix’s latest drone,...
We’re eager to see what’s next from VR indie developer, Turbo Button, but while we wait you can play one of its earlier games on a brand new platform since Floor Plan [Review: 6/10] has officially come to Google Daydream. The game was originally available for both the Gear VR and Oculus Rift, but now makes...
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