Over the years there have been a lot of pieces of entertainment content, whether it be the mesmerizing tunes of Daft Punk, the dystopian world of Blade Runner, or the retro-futuristic landscapes of countless video games, that all seem to grow out of this idea of an eye-catching future that is still faced with horrible...
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VR Virtuoso Tipatat Chennavasin Reveals How Tilt Brush Got Its Name
Tipatat Chennavasin is one of virtual realities most notable emerging personalities. Tipatat frequents most VR-related events and his unique first name is well known to early VR enthusiasts. He is also a co-founder and general partner for the Venture Reality Fund — an early stage investment firm for VR startups. If that weren’t enough, Chennavasin is also a...
Gear VR Ranked In Amazon’s Top Three Best-Selling Wearables Over Holidays
Amazon has revealed its best-selling products for the holiday season, and Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR has come out on top for our budding new industry. Earlier this week the online retailing giant revealed the top three products sold in the different categories featured on its site. Gear VR makes it in as the third...
VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics
The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it...
Why CES 2017 Will Set the Stage for the Next Year of VR
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has served as a good way-point for VR’s progress over the years. With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and low-lights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues...
Watch The Assassination Attempt of Ronald Reagan in Augmented Reality
Augmented reality presents a lot of ways to innovate by changing how we view our real world. With AR, apps are evolving the way we access social networks, giving cyclists crucial data while on the move, and companies like Lumus are receiving millions to further evolve the technology. While VR offers immediately recognizable ways to...
‘Fist of Physics’ Feels Like The Natural Evolution Of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Every now and then you come across a VR game that marries two things that you never really knew you wanted to see wed in holy gaming matrimony. But if you took the concept of boxing, such as in the excellent Thrill of the Fight, and had that game shack up with giant mech robots...
THX Creates Audio Chip Positioned for VR Claimed to “best every other amplifier product in the marketplace”
THX has announced the development of a new audio amplifier chip which the company claims offers “the world’s lowest levels of distortion and noise,” along with “incredibly low power consumption,” positioning the amplifier for mobile VR headsets, wireless headphones, and VR PCs. The THXAAA chip, as the company calls it, is an ASIC chip that’s...
Experimental VR Alzheimer’s Therapy App Made Just Hours After Plea by Child of Afflicted Father
After a recent bout of news articles detailing an experimental Alzheimer’s Disease therapy that has showed promising results in mice, the child of an afflicted father made a plea to the VR community to create a VR app which would recreate the therapy with a VR headset. “I’m losing my dad to Alzheimer’s. Every day...
I Used My Phone Inside PlayStation VR With ‘anywhereVR’
How’s this for first world problems? You’re having a great VR experience, relaxing by a beach and watching the waves gently brush up on shore, when your phone vibrates. Ugh, you’re going to have to take your headset off, locate your phone, and hopefully not miss the incoming call/reply to a message in a timely...