SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
In a recent article published by Health Point Capital, it was announced that Royal Philips are developing a fully-automatic Augmented Reality surgical navigation system. This new technology is designed to help surgeons perform image guided open and minimally invasive surgeries for spine, cranial and trauma procedures. This new system will allow surgeons to check the...
An article was released this week on Austin Inno, discussing an AR game designed by Jackrabbit Labs, inspired by the game cornhole. It works by capturing a ‘marker’ with an iPhone camera, which the app then logs and remembers its position using the phone’s gyroscope and accelerometer. We couldn’t help but notice that this technology...
The following is a summary of a recent article on the use of smart glasses in order picking. Arvato SCM Solution, in cooperation with technology supplier Picavi, has successfully launched the innovation project “Pick-by-Vision” for Sennheiser. Order-picking with smart glasses saves time and ensures a smooth flow of materials – from the moment goods are...
John Carmack, the chief technology officer at Oculus and one of the brilliant minds in tech, wrote an angry post on Facebook about the $500 million jury verdict against Oculus in the lawsuit where ZeniMax alleged that Carmack and others stole proprietary information on virtual reality. The post is highly unusual, as Oculus and its...
ANALYSIS: Mistakes in doing everyday business led to a $500 million verdict against Facebook’s Oculus division in a legal battle with ZeniMax. ZeniMax sued Oculus, Facebook, and well-known virtual reality leaders John Carmack and Palmer Luckey for misappropriating trade secrets after Carmack left ZeniMax’s id Software and went to work at Oculus. The case has...
Rec Room is a zany social virtual reality game, where you can play within a virtual sports environment while chatting with others in the same virtual space. And it was novel enough to enable its developer, Against Gravity, to raise $5 million in funding. The funding announced today came from Sequoia Capital, First Round Capital, Acequia...
Late last week we reported on data from Capcom that revealed at least 62,000 people had been playing Resident Evil 7 [Review: 9/10] with the game’s optional PlayStation VR support on PlayStation 4. One week on and that number has crossed a significant milestone. ResidentEvil.net, an optional service that collects statistics from RE7 players across...
In 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to successfully summit Everest, the world’s tallest mountain at 29,029 feet. Now, VR content house CGO Studios is teaming up with descendants of those first summiteers to recreate the momentous trek to be experienced in a historically accurate real-time VR experience. LA based CGO Studios has...
Steve Jobs once said to a gathering of senior advisers that when it came to the first iPhone, “we’re going to patent it all,” (New York Times reports). While Apple has certainly changed in the years since Job’s passing, the company has undoubtedly continued to aggressively pursue patents, sometimes racking up hundreds of filings in a...
Welcome to our humble podcast! Every week(ish) Joe Durbin and Ashley Whitlatch go over the biggest VR news of the past seven days. Plus, we always try to give you a healthy dose of analysis and surprises along the way. This week, we’re giving you our big VR predictions for 2017 which include the potential emergence...
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