In book and film forms, Ready Player One popularized the concept of The Oasis — a central hub connecting all VR experiences to one another using persistent avatars and consumables. This month, HTC Vive users will get to experience Planet Ludus, the VR headset maker’s attempt to make The Oasis actually happen. Named after the...
GUEST: Mobile AR has failed to take off in a meaningful way since the introduction of ARKit in 2017. Despite AR’s potential, user adoption has been underwhelming — due to the fact that mobile AR has, thus far, been a single-device experience. However, the recent emergence of AR Cloud capabilities means that AR-enabled devices can...
Haptx has been working on its haptic gloves — which give you a sense of touch in virtual reality — for a few years. Today, the company is launching its Haptx Gloves Development Kit, an industrial-grade product for advanced simulation in virtual reality. Haptx Gloves wants to empower professional VR users to develop simulations with real…Read More...
Microsoft has a major update going out for Windows 10 right now. The October 2018 update includes DirectX R (DXR). This is the newest version of Microsoft’s DirectX graphics library, which enables developers to access a PC’s rawest processing power. This will finally brings native support for ray-tracing 3D light technology to the opera…Read More...
GUEST: On the night of September 3, 1943, hundreds of Royal Air Force pilots and crew prepared themselves and their planes for the long flight across the North Sea to conduct a night-time raid over Berlin. One of over 350 raids carried out over the German capital during the war, what made this a significant...
After decades of using wall-mounted TVs, hospitalized patients have recently started using virtual reality to “transport” themselves into more relaxing settings. Hot on the heels of last week’s Oculus-VRHealth initiative to manage pain for chemotherapy patients and mothers in labor, the Starlight Children’s Foundation, SOTI,…Read More Source: Starlight and SOTI bring Lenovo Mirage Solo VR to hospitalized...
Spaces has partnered with Sega’s Joypolis location-based entertainment division to open a new VR attraction near the Shibuya train station in Tokyo, which is one of the busiest transit stations in the world. It opens on October 25. In August, Spaces opened its first virtual reality entertainment center in Orange County, California, featuring…Read More Source: Spaces partners...
Marvel: Powers United VR‘s roster of playable heroes ended up being a pretty decent selection of spandex-wearing super people. But well all know there was one major omission from the Oculus Rift exclusive – Iron Man. At Oculus Connect 5 this week Steve Arnold, Head of Oculus Studios, talked to us about why Tony Stark...
Virtual reality is still a fledgling industry, and it’s hard to make money on the relatively small installed base of VR headsets. But that doesn’t bother Robin Hunicke, the CEO and cofounder of San Francisco-based indie game studio Funomena. Hunicke, who is also director of the Art, Games, & Playable Media BA program at the Universi…Read...
Oculus Quest, the latest VR headset from Facebook, enables full six degrees of freedom (6DOF) tracking for both head and hands using the company’s new inside-out system called Insight. This brings the standalone headset closer to Rift-quality tracking than ever before, but it’s still not perfect. Gabor Szauer, Developer Relations Engineer at the co…Read More...
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