Are you or your team thinking of releasing your documentation for use in AR delivery systems? How will you get started? What skills and tools are required? Who has the components you will need? Who is going to design the UX and do the authoring? Full article By Christine Perey Board Member, Sponsor Member of AR...
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Microsoft Conference Could Set The Tone For E3 With Move To Sunday
E3 hype is already in full swing and companies are starting to share bits of information about their appearances at the expo this June, even though GDC still hasn’t even happened yet. Perhaps most notably thus far, Microsoft has moved away from their typical conference showing. Usually, we’d get Microsoft’s conference early on Monday with...
‘SYREN’ Review
SYREN (2017) is a single-player, survival-horror game that will have you sneaking around corners, hiding under virtual desks, and flailing helplessly as you’re mauled to death by the world’s ghastly “Syrens,” a terrifying amalgamation of human/robot/awfulness. Despite some pretty distracting bugs in the game, it’s safe to say that people with high blood pressure or heart...
Have You Seen This?: New 'Crayon' HoloLens App Brings Back the Fun of Drawing on Walls
Crayon, a free 3D drawing application by the mysteriously named arkalian, showed up in the Windows Store recently, so I gave it a try like I do all new apps for Windows Holographic. Truthfully, I loaded it up not expecting much, but wow, was I wrong. It’s a simple idea, but it’s executed well enough...
NextVR and NBA Putting Together VR Highlights of All Star Weekend
NextVR has made significant progress across different leagues when it comes to VR, from broadcasting NCAA football games and tailgating activities to providing highlight packages for the NFL despite their slower adoption of VR and 360-degree live-streaming. The NBA has been a bit more active in their partnership with NextVR, including VR as part of broadcast subscription packages, and putting...
ResearchVR Episode 34 – VR Locomotion with Daniel Sproll of Realities.io
This week on ResearchVR we dig deep into VR locomotion from theoretical, practical and technical perspectives. Daniel Sproll, co-founder at Realities.io, started his virtual reality adventure “before it was cool” – over five years ago. Starting in psychology research using VR at Eyespace Lab, Sproll participated in projects such as Colosse and the Audi VR Showroom...
Oculus Acknowledges Ongoing Tracking Issues with 3-Sensor Setups, Promises February Update
Oculus’ most recent platform update, 1.11 was designed to improve tracking performance for experimental room-scale tracking setups with two or more Sensors. For some users however, the update seems to have made things worse. Oculus has now acknowledged the lingering issues and promises that the next two updates will aim to address the problem. It...
Lytro Gets $60M More for Light Field VR Capture, First Content Coming in Q2
Lytro have announced another hefty wedge of funding, with a $60 million series D round led by Blue Pool. What’s more, they’ve formed a content partnership Within, and the first 360 degree 3D light field content is now set to arrive in Q2 of this year. There are so many technologies that the advent of...
(NSFW) Always Sunny in Philadelphia 360 Video Lets You Be Totally and Completely Badass
What’s up jabronis. Welcome to a brand new episode of Project Badass. The pyrotechnics (bug bomb) are set, the speedway (cardboard ramp) is secure and, most importantly, your helmet (forgot) and safety gear (nope) are on. Totally, and completely, badass, courtesy of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. (NSFW content including foul language and a dancing stripper found...