SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
As more high-quality projects surface and the install base for virtual and augmented reality continues to grow, more and more money is pouring into the different entities cultivating and creating that content. Japan-based COLOPL has charged forward to become a solidified part of the mobile industry with a collection of solid games that include VR experiences....
‘OpenVR Advanced Settings’ is a dashboard overlay that allows access to advanced functionality of any headset running SteamVR. The menu is accessible in VR, meaning you can easily adjust options such as supersampling without removing your headset. Last year we explained how, if you’re computer has processing power to spare, supersampling could dramatically improve image...
Three One Zero, the developer behind one of the most anticipated games of the Oculus Rift launch, has “run its course”, according to its founding member. That would be Adam Orth, a former Microsoft employee who formed the startup studio after he left the company. Speaking to GamesBeat, Orth revealed that he is joining First...
Yesterday, Oculus announced the release date for what will be one of its first big Studios games this year, Rock Band VR. But there’s plenty more where that came from. Following the news, Jason Rubin, Head of Content at Oculus, tweeted out a tease that the launch of the Harmonix music game was “Starting Months...
Admit it; at at least one point in the past year you’ve picked one of the HTC Vive’s wands and pretended it’s a lightsaber. You’re far from alone. In fact, performing arts theater counterpulse is taking those imaginary battles one step further with the help of the position-tracked controllers. As you can see in the...
You may not be aware of this but for years now Microsoft has been steadily working to build the world’s smartest computer brain. Now, that brain is getting a whole lot smarter. Meet CRIS and LUIS Today, Microsoft is announcing Custom Speech Service, the latest program to join the ranks of Microsoft Cognitive Services. This is a suite of innovations that...
Though it’s not as costly as PC-based VR, getting into mobile VR can still be expensive if you don’t have the hardware to run it. ZTE’s Axon 7 is helping lighten that load a bit. The Chinese phone maker today announced that its handset, a flagship device that released all the way back in July 2016...
An opinion piece on The Economist dated February 4th 2017, offers the opinion that Augmented Reality will be big in business before it is accepted more widely. Wearables are discussed and the idea is to build a pair of “smart glasses” that do everything a smartphone can, and more. Augmented Reality (AR) would “paint computerised...
An article on Upload VR suggests that Apple is working on something in the VR/AR space. A newly published patent may offer clues to this. The patent is for a “wearable information system having at least one camera.” According to the abstract: “The invention is related to a wearable information system having at least one camera, the...
Last Friday saw Oculus release its anticipated Rift 1.11 update, along with promised improvements to tracking for the VR headset and its Touch controllers. But not everyone was satisfied with the release. Multiple reports cropped up online following the update’s roll out, with people still having issues with multi-sensor Rift setups. In some cases users were...
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