Apple continues to impress the AR world with game-changing innovations that add to their already incredible products. The company’s most recent endeavor has been to plunge into the world of augmented reality with the announcement of their ARKit. Now it seems they are already planning ahead for what they can further use AR for, patenting...
Augmented reality headset and software maker Meta Company announced today board member Joe Mikhail will serve as the company’s chief revenue officer. A member of the company’s board of directors since 2015, Mikhail joins Meta from Lenovo, where he was director of worldwide open innovation. He is also managing director of venture firm Moxie Capital,...
The Sharknado franchise is, somehow, releasing a fifth movie “Sharknado 5: Global Swarming” (groan) next month. In anticipation of the film’s release, the company has decided to create an augmented reality mobile game called, prepare yourself, “Sharknado: ShARkmented Reality”. Which … is just about the most Sharknado name they could have come up with. Essentially,...
One thing that I got more and more excited about as we got closer and closer to the Microsoft Build 2017 developers conference was finally learning about the new Acer Windows Mixed Reality head-mounted displays (HMD). Brandon Bray, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft, had teased us a few weeks earlier at the Vision Summit...
In the world of high end consumer Virtual Reality, there are currently three major players, and each is seeking something very different from VR. For Oculus, the goal is the culmination of a well-publicised journey from start-up to acquisition from the biggest social media company on Earth, and the hope for clearer waters after a...
There are so many different ways that researchers around the world are working on to make VR more immersive. From haptic gloves to a speaker that pumps bass straight into your chest cavity, it seems that anything is game to supplement the audio-visual VR experience. It’s not unique to VR either, from force-feedback joysticks to...
The VR price war is heating up again as Oculus cuts their price of their Rift headset and Touch controller bundle once more to £400 ($400 in the US) as of today, as Facebook tries to boost flagging sales and pitch VR as the future of media. The announcement comes amid a troubled period for...
In another case of “of course they did” we’ve heard reports by our weird friends from the Land of the Rising Sun that dudes are now marrying VR girls. Don’t believe us? Go ahead, watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYNdiLrvwzA Your eyes are not deceiving you friends, you’re looking at the future right there. Wait a Minute…...
Image Credit: RED Digital Camera RED Digital Camera are famous for their incredible cinematic camera technology beloved by the likes of James Cameron (who has bought heaps of the things) and Peter Jackson. Given how expensive their video cameras are, they haven’t really made a name for themselves as purveyors of consumer products. A...
Welcome to a new week of HTC Vive releases, far removed from the storm that was the Steam summer sale. Things are somewhat back to normal and we have a couple highlights to check out. Balloon Chair Death Match is a unique deathmatch concept that takes really good advantage of VR’s immersion by having you up in...
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