Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg | Photo courtesy Facebook Facebook’s 2017 F8 developer event has seven scheduled sessions dedicated to VR. The company’s annual two-day event is dedicated to exploring the future of Facebook’s family of apps and services (including Oculus), and how businesses and developers can leverage them. With sessions covering topics such as research, analytics and...
Within premiered their first real-time rendered, interactive experience at Sundance New Frontier this year with Life of Us, which is the story of life on the planet as told through embodying a series of characters who are evolving into humans. The experience is somewhere between a film and game, and ends up feeling much like...
Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again affirmed his belief in the significance of augmented reality technology. Interviewed during a recent trip to Europe, he spoke broadly about how AR could benefit everyone’s lives in the future, highlighting the way it allows users to remain ‘present’ in the real world. Underscored by years of relevant hiring...
Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. These awards honor the year’s best in “cutting edge content and technology achievement.” This year, virtual and augmented reality were well represented throughout the ceremony. Check out this list of tonight’s biggest VR/AR winners. Cher Wang – HTC Vive AIS-VR Society President Jim...
Tonight in Hollywood, California the Lumiere Awards were held at Warner Brothers Studios. These awards honor the year’s greatest achievements in photography and the visual arts. This year, virtual and augmented reality were well represented throughout the ceremony. Check out this list of tonight’s biggest VR/AR winners. Cher Wang – HTC Vive AIS-VR Society President Jim...
Engineers are hard at work trying to find ways to make virtual experiences even more intimate for the participants, including Wolverine-like claws, exoskeleton gloves that tug on each finger and VR boots. Haptic devices want to let us feel our way through virtual spaces, giving realistic feedback as we touch different objects as well as grab, push, and...
Holographic technology company 8i is announcing today that it has raised a $27 million series B round of fundraising for the development of new products including its new smartphone hologram program: Holo. Holo’s tagline encourages users to: mix your world with holograms. According to 8i, Holo is a: “…Consumer mobile app that gives people an...
Volumetric video specialists 8i have announced their latest series B funding round has netted them a further $27 while also unveiling Holo, a mixed reality video app, powered by Google’s Tango technology. We first reported on 8i back in 2015, when they unveiled their 360 volumetric video capture system, capable of capturing imagery and data...
Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) is a great headset, but tracking quality is a common complaint from users. A new patent from the company, however, suggests it could be working on a fix for that. A new patent from Sony Interactive Entertainment, filed last year and published earlier this month, reveals the company is working on...
Some superheroes are just annoying. Take Hal Jordan, for example, the most popular Green Lantern. Though he may have matured into a grizzled veteran over time, his early days as a member of the space police cast him as a cocky pretty boy that grated on his fellow members of the Justice League. I never...
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