When you find out the enigmatic 24-year-old who built one of the first commercially viable virtual reality headsets also funds a pro-Trump political action group aimed at spreading anti-Hillary Clinton memes, you may feel like your worldview has shifted a bit. At least that was the response of scores of virtual reality fans, some of...
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SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
1 million people use VR every month: Oculus
Just how popular is virtual reality? It’s hard to tell, but Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said “1 million people use VR every month” at the Oculus Connect 3 developer conference. Zuckerberg didn’t specify what VR specifically referred to. Does that include Google Cardboard? Samsung Gear VR and all of the mobile VR headset clones? He...
Landmark VR film reveals Indigenous encounter with atomic bomb testing
Imagine witnessing the atomic tests that were performed in outback Australia in the ’50s. A landmark new virtual reality film is allowing you to do just that — from the perspective of a man with no prior contact with the western world. Collisions is the tale of Nyarri Nyarri Morgan, a revered elder of the...
Indian startup SmartVizX is trying to solve real estate's big problem with VR
An Indian startup is pushing through limits of virtual reality technologies, creating business solutions that are mostly unheard of in the industry. But is India ready for such solutions yet? After working for a decade at Space Matrix Design Consultants, one and a half year serving as its Director of Global Projects, Gautam Tewari knew...
PlayStation VR is a good headset built on a crumbling foundation
PlayStation VR is its own worst enemy. Sony’s new-fangled head-mounted display and the bits and pieces that make it run feel like a forced collision between the past and the present. SEE ALSO: Google Daydream brings ‘Harry Potter’ to VR The headset is definitively a product of the Now: it’s sleek, it’s space-age, and it’s...
Hands on with Daydream View, Google's first virtual reality headset
If you’ve spent any time in virtual reality then “cozy” is definitely not the first word that comes to mind. Google thinks its new Daydream View headset can change that. The $79 headset is Google’s first true virtual reality device and it’s soft and fuzzy — literally. SEE ALSO: Google’s new VR headset is just...
Google's Daydream View isn't the VR future we were hoping for
After months of anticipation for Google’s virtual reality headset, we finally got a look at the company’s most serious venture into VR hardware and it was…underwhelming. SEE ALSO: Google’s new VR headset is just $79 Called Daydream View, the device looks almost exactly like the so-called reference designs the company showed off back in May...
Google Daydream brings 'Harry Potter' to VR
Niantic may have shut down rumors about “Harry Potter Go,” but never fear, Potter fans — Google is here for you. The company announced Tuesday that its new mobile virtual reality platform will include a Harry Potter adventure from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. SEE ALSO: IMAX wants you to ‘walk into a...
Google's new VR headset is just $79
Monday’s leak indicating that Google would release a Daydream virtual reality headset turned out to be accurate. At the company’s Made By Google event on Tuesday, Google took the wraps off its new VR headset, the Daydream View, which is designed to work with its new Pixel line of smartphones. SEE ALSO: Google’s big hardware...
Google to release Daydream VR headset Tuesday, report says
Less than a day before Google’s next big event, where the company is expected to announce an array of new products, a report has leaked that one of those products will be a new virtual reality headset. SEE ALSO: Google’s big hardware event: What to expect The headset, which will be part of Google’s new...