SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Oculus VR and BBC Earth, the British Broadcasting Corporation’s own natural history producer, have announced a new partnership. The first order of business: three VR experiences based on the lives of three different animals, Black Bears, the Caracal Cat, and an Oogpister Beetle. BBC Worldwide says that all three virtual reality experiences will be released separately on Oculus Rift...
HTC has confirmed that the TPCAST wireless VR solution for the Vive VR headset will be available worldwide in Q2 this year at $249. As predicted in our recent VR retrospective, there were a lot of companies showing solutions that promise to cut the cord on desktop headsets via wireless video streaming. The solution that...
At CES 2017, Lumus is demonstrating its latest waveguide optics which achieve a 55 degree field of view from optics less than 2mm thick, potentially enabling a truly glasses-sized augmented reality headset. Israel-based Lumus has been working on transparent optics since 2000. The company has developed a unique form of waveguide technology which allows images...
Amid the hustle and bustle of Vive’s CES booth, there’s a war zone. It’s a hellish battlefield in which three brave brothers are making a last stand against a hive mind of silent soldiers, uniformly marching forward. The heroes twist and turn, covering every angle, ducking and weaving out of the line of fire —...
Gary Shapiro is the voice of the tech industry. The president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association is the leader of the trade group that puts on CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. I spoke with him about his agenda for the incoming Donald Trump presidency, and Shapiro explained...
GUEST: I don’t know about you, but if I’m driving through downtown Detroit in the dead of winter, I might want to feel like I’m driving through the Florida Keys instead. Soon, that may just be possible. Swiss-headquartered WayRay, which makes holographic augmented reality displays for cars, announced a strategic collaboration with Harman, the car...
Remember the buzz you had this time last year? Rather than another agonizing wait for updates, Oculus hit the 2016 ground running with a massive blowout on the consumer Rift, launching pre-orders and taking extensive interview sessions from which hundreds more details spilled out. It wasn’t all good news, of course, but it was still...
If I had a dollar for every tab open on my computer right now I could afford to eat something besides these mini donuts for lunch (even though they are good for me I suppose). I think I may still have a tab open somewhere with a very malnourished NeoPet on it. That’s how hoarder-esque...
Have you ever been in the middle of an experience and thought “I wish I could preserve this moment forever?” Currently what you’ll do is pull out your phone and snap a few pictures for the various snaps and grams available to you online. But what if you could bottle that moment exactly as it happened...
It’s been a pretty cold CES. The industry has been hurriedly hopping on one foot to another as they wait outside for Ubers and taxis to get to their next appointment, and heat lamps have had queues of people lining up to feel their flames. If you really wanted to stay warm, though, all you...
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