When I first tried out the Samsung Gear VR, I immediately reached out with my hands. I didn’t have a Leap Motion attachment and I knew that my hands weren’t actually tracked, but the overwhelming sense of presence when I tried VR for the very first time was enough to momentarily fool me. For a...
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‘Blortasia’ Lets You Enter The Mind Of The Man Behind The VFX of ‘Fight Club’
In today’s films, those responsible for visual effects have a crucial role. Although they are unsung heroes in most cases, these creators shape the layer that can make a film’s many scenes leap from the screen and leave an impression on the audience. Kevin Scott Mack is no stranger to visually intensive films, having served...
Forget 4K — The Insta360 Pro Is An 8K 360-Degree VR Camera
China’s Insta360 has announced its 8K professional virtual reality camera, the Insta360 Pro, to raise the bar for 360-degree VR films. The company made the announcement at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. The 8K-resolution Insta360 Pro camera is designed for shooting 360 films that can be displayed with virtual...
Making VR Experiences Wheelchair Accessible
Brian Van Buren is a narrative designer at Tomorrow Today Labs, and he’s also a wheelchair user who has been evangelizing how to make virtual reality experiences more accessible. I had a chance to catch up with him at the Intel Buzz Workshop in June where we talked about some of his accessibility recommendations to...
‘Alien: Covenant’ is Getting a VR Experience
The minds behind the well-executed-but-a-little-too-expensive The Martian VR Experience are working on a new immersive tie in for the next entry in the Alien movie franchise, Alien: Covenant. Movie tie-ins, once reviled in the gaming community often as worthless, lazy cash-ins, may see a renaissance with the advent of consumer virtual reality technology. There have been...
Hands-on: Lenovo’s VR Headset Has the Flip-up Functionality We Always Wanted
We found out yesterday that Lenovo’s (still unnamed) VR headset is said to be surprisingly light and low cost, but after checking out the device ourselves, we found a hidden function that we wish was on every headset. With the PSVR-like ‘halo’ head-mount of the Lenovo VR headset, the display enclosure hangs down from the...
Faraday Future Used VR To Design Their Flagship “Fully Connected” Car
Like NASA’s experiments with mixed reality, entities are using VR and AR to increase efficiency and lower cost in big ways. NASA is using VR as a training space for astronauts, but also testing out components for different mechanisms in mixed reality without having to manufacture things that may or may not work or fit...
Upload’s 2017 CES Party Brings All The VR Goodness To Vegas
2016 was rough. A gorilla died, trolls ruled the earth, and we lost more than our fair share of icons and legends. But, thankfully, every year eventually comes to a close and now we turn to the promise of 2017 — and it’s kicking off with a bang for VR. CES is upon us and...
Report: ASUS ZenFone Is Both Daydream and Tango Ready
Following today’s news about the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 mobile processor, we learned about more mobile VR and AR developments. In a leaked Qualcomm blog post (which has since been taken down), it looks like the upcoming ASUS ZenFone is expected to be both Google Daydream and Tango ready. Daydream is the VR ecosystem released by Google...
Lenovo’s New VR Headset Packs More Pixels at Lower Weight & Cost Than Rift and Vive
The first VR headset for Window’s recently announced Holographic platform is almost here, and according to a report by The Verge, it’s going to cost between $300 and $400 when it goes on sale later this year. Ramping up for CES 2017 in Las Vegas, Lenovo has revealed their newest entry into the world of VR,...