SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Building virtual portals are popular practice for developers to demonstrate the “wow” factor of augmented reality. Since the introduction of Apple ARKit, several demonstrations have shown how iPhones and iPad users will have access to their own alternate worlds when iOS 11 arrives this fall. The latest such demo comes courtesy of independent developer Gian...
The Stanford Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is hosting its third-annual Innovations in Psychiatry and Behavioral Health conference on the Stanford campus at the Li Ka Shing Center for Learning and Knowledge at Stanford, CA on October 6 and 7. The main focus of the conference will be using virtual and augmented reality as...
For decades, Disney’s Haunted Mansion attraction has given visitors the impression a ghost was sitting with them on their way out of the ride. You look in a mirror and the ghost is seemingly sitting right beside you in your seat. A new project by Disney Research presented at SIGGRAPH 2017 recently showed a way...
A contest is being held for creators to use Google’s Blocks VR creation software and incorporate the robot building blocks posted by Jarlan Perez, a 3D artist at Google, for the chance to win a $50 Steam gift card. Entries can be delivered as a still image, video, GIF or Blocks Gallery and need to include...
Strider VR uses a novel approach to omnidirectional treadmill design, using a rotatable ball array positioned above a traditional linear treadmill, combined with a Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The system is currently available as a development kit from German company Pathbender. While most omnidirectional treadmills allow the user to physically rotate through a full 360...
Gunter S. Thompson has been hosting VR meetups in VRChat for the past three years where he will give guided tours through the latest additions to the VRChat metaverse, and he also hosts a live talk show every Tuesday called ‘Gunter’s Universe.’ I had a chance to catch up with Gunter at SVVR about two...
Here’s an interesting bit of movie trivia; Neo didn’t really dodge all those bullets in The Matrix. Turns out he’s a big fraud and the real hero of the day is Just in Time Incorporated. This amazing company saves lives, acting as time-manipulating body guards that come to the rescue of their clients, as the...
Lenovo has a lot going on in the immersive technology space right now, including two VR headsets and two AR headsets. It looks like one of these might have just gotten a name, but don’t ask us which. German site Mobielkopen.net recently spotted a new trademark filed by the technology company for something called Lenovo...
There are a lot of different ways that have been tried to make the process of controlling things in a VR environment more natural. We have motion controllers, haptic gloves and even full-body motion-capturing suits. What if you needed none of that stuff to influence the VR world? That’s what a company called Neurable is...
We got out first good look at Steven Speilberg’s anticipated adaptation of Ready Player One at Comic-Con last month, but we still have plenty of questions about the movie. Now we’ve got our first glimpse at one of the major characters. Empire has released a new image of the upcoming blockbuster that gives us our...
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