In one of the most famous moments of speculative tech ever captured on screen, Minority Report’s Officer John Anderton (Tom Cruise) moves graphics, text, photos and video clips across a large pane of glass using only his two gloved hands to guide him. With a single film, this design — arguably the impetus of all gesture-based...
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Bosch Wants to Speed Up AR Adoption in the Auto Industry
While there are many uses for augmented reality in the automotive industry, adoption has been slow. With the plethora of makes and models on the road today and rolling off assembly lines tomorrow, developing and deploying knowledge bases that utilize augmented reality to dealerships and garages can be costly and difficult to scale. Bosch Automotive...
Ancient Amuletor Is An Action Tower Defense Game For PSVR
Starblood Arena and Farpoint are set to keep PlayStation (PSVR) players happy in the coming months, but we don’t really know much about what’s coming beyond that. Ancient Amuletor is one such title. China-based indie developer Time of Virtual Reality announced this new tower defense game for the headset today ahead of a release this...
Mission: ISS Is A Free Space Simulation That Makes You The Astronaut
Virtual reality is a great platform for users to experience fantastic worlds and wonders, but it’s also a portal into the real life wonders very few humans get to enjoy. Outer space is one of, if not the, most incredible of those wonders and VR users are getting an opportunity to be an astronaut. In Mission: ISS, visitors...
Oculus CTO John Carmack Sues ZeniMax For $22.5 Million In Ongoing Battle
The ongoing legal drama between Oculus chief technology officer John Carmack and his former employer ZeniMax continues today with Carmack suing the company. The complaint filed on behalf of Carmack alleges ZeniMax refuses to make a final payment stemming from the $150 million purchase in 2009 of id Software, the company Carmack co-founded in the...
GTC 2017: NVIDIA Is Looking For VR/AR Apps, Offering $30,000 And Other Prizes
Graphics powerhouse NVIDIA is a crucial part of the VR industry. The higher end virtual experiences are pretty demanding and need powerful graphics cards to push them. As VR continues to grow, so does the technology feeding them with NVIDIA’s new GTX GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as the latest example. NVIDIA is also a part of...
‘Waltz of the Wizard’ ‘Ghostline’ Analytics Reveal Some Surprising Player Behaviour
Aldin Dynamics has released a detailed breakdown of user data gathered during over 300,000 sessions of Waltz of the Wizard gameplay. Launched in May 2016, the motion-controlled VR game was developed with the insights gained from using Aldin’s own data visualisation tool Ghostline. Dedicated to VR software development since early 2013, Aldin Dynamics is one...
‘AirMech: Command’ Gets Major Oculus Touch Update, Launches on Steam VR
VR motion control comes to AirMech: Command, and the game has been released on Steam with support for multiple VR headsets and controllers through OpenVR. The game originally appeared as a launch title for the Oculus Rift in March 2016. Drawing direct inspiration from pioneering real-time strategy title Herzog Zwei, AirMech started life as a...
Chairish App Now Lets You Try Before You Buy (With Augmented Reality)
Chairish, Inc. is the latest furniture retailer to bring augmented reality into its mobile stores, adding features for users to visualize products in their homes. Today, the company added AR capabilities to their iOS apps for their brands Chairish, an online marketplace for vintage furniture, and DECASO, a purveyor of modernism, antique, and art dealers....
7 Things We Can’t Wait To Stick The Vive Tracker On
I sort of see the new Vive Trackers as like the post-it notes of VR, in that I want to stick them to absolutely everything. I often walk down the street looking at things you could virtualize by clamping HTC’s new peripheral to them. In fact I probably scare people when they see me contemplating...
