Microsoft’s Seeing AI is an app that lets blind and limited-vision folks convert visual data into audio feedback, and it just got a useful new feature. Users can now use touch to explore the objects and people in photos. It’s powered by machine learning, of course, specifically object and scene recognition. All you need to...
Now that the dust has finally settled on Microsoft’s big HoloLens 2 announcement, the company is circling back to offer more granular detail on some aspects of the device we still don’t know about. Aside from making some team members accessible for interviews, the company has also launched a video streaming series that delves into...
Fashion brand Christian Dior is using augmented reality as a carrot to drive up their follower counts on Instagram. Consumers who follow Christian Dior on Instagram can now unlock a virtual try-on experience for DiorSoLight sunglasses and headbands through the Stories feature. Called “Kaleidoscope,” the experience also fills the camera frame with psychedelic effects similar...
Whoops, it looks like the Beat Saber DLC tracklist leaked a little early. Awkward. A post on the PlayStation Blog, picked up on Reddit, apparently listed the new tracks. It seems to have since been removed from the blog but a tweet from Beat Saber itself validates the list. Okaaay guys, it was suppose to...
The Wizards, when it originally released on PC VR headsets like Rift and Vive almost a year ago exactly, delivered what few games had up to that point: a fully-fledged action-adventure set in a fantastical fantasy world build from the ground up for VR. This was a solid six or so hour game, plus a...
A Microsoft representative said its line of Windows VR headsets has not performed to expectations. Greg Sullivan, director of communications for Microsoft’s Mixed Reality arm, said in an interview with UploadVR: “Interestingly, the immersive VR headsets were pitched as consumer devices and I think did not meet, in general, the high expectations that were set...
Happy Hobgoblin’s Icesolation is the latest VR game to take a stab at local co-op play. Revealed via a new trailer yesterday, the game’s set to go on sale on March 15th. Like other co-op games like Covert, it requires two players. One is inside VR while the other is using a second screen (in...
A free new app available on Android and iOS creates an AR portal through which you can view a recreation of one of Rembrandt’s most famous paintings. The app is made by Amsterdam-based design studio CapitolaVR for Dutch insurance and investment company Nationale Nederlanden as well as the Mauritshuis museum, where the painting is on...
Usually, games are built for one distinctive genre and stick with it. JetX is a different story, though. Announced earlier this month, JetX is like one part Unreal Tournament, one part Wipeout. It’s a sci-fi action game that has you piloting flying ships, designed for VR players with iron stomachs. In the game’s arena mode...
Rahul Sandil, former marketing executive at HTC’s Vive virtual reality division, is jumping ship to Micron Technology, where he will run consumer marketing.Read More Source: HTC Vive marketing exec leaves VR for Micron
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