PREVIEW: Space Junkies is Ubisoft’s arcade shooter about flying around space in virtual reality, zooming about in orbital arenas with a jetpack and shooting your friends. While Ready At Dawn’s Echo Combat is a realistic and immersive simulation, Ubisoft’s is a neon-glowing comedic take where you can take on friends in 1-on-1 or 2-…Read More...
PREVIEW: In Stormland, you are an android gardener who traveled to an exotic alien planet to help settle it. But when you get there, you find that the malevolent organization called the Tempest followed you. It killed the settlers and broke your body. Decades later, you reboot. Now you must go through a settlement in...
A recently announced partnership between Avnet and Not Impossible Labs has yielded a new type of wearable — a “Vibrotextile” vest with wrist and ankle bands that pulse in sync with live musical performances, enabling wearers to feel the music. The new wearables publicly debuted in a bundle the companies are calling Music: Not Impo…Read...
Pokémon Go has just reached two big milestones. The mobile AR game has now earned $2 billion, according to Apptopia, a third-party provider of app data. The location-based game has also introduced a new Pokémon for the first time, the mythical Meltan. Pokémon Go became a phenomenon during its launch in the summer of 2016. While it...
MonkeyMedia aims to reduce motion sickness in virtual reality with BodyNav developer tools. You could call it an anti-barf tool. MonkeyMedia, the independent research lab in Austin, Texas, today announced the public release of a developer toolkit for its patented BodyNav technology, which is aimed at making VR more comfortable for players and getti…Read More Source:...
Sennheiser is partnering with Magic Leap. The audio-equipment company is providing its Ambeo tech to improve the immersion of augmented reality. Ambeo uses “transparent audio” that enables you to mix sound from the real world and a pair of headphones. Essentially, Ambeo is an audio version of AR. Sennheiser didn’t announce any spe…Read More Source: Sennheiser brings...
GUEST: BUZZZZZ! THUMP. Down goes another tree in virtual reality. The sole witness of this was the participant in our VR study who used a remote control with haptic feedback to cut the tree. As the participant leaves, our research assistant intentionally spills water. The participant rushes to help — but how many paper towels...
Pixvana debuted Spin Studio in late 2016 to help VR content creators easily make and distribute videos — now the platform is becoming even more compelling. As part of today’s “full release” of Spin Studio, Pixvana is notably adding the ability to edit content directly within a VR headset, complete with VR-native tools and ge…Read...
From the “in mildly interesting and painfully specific patents from big VR companies” file: Oculus seems to have patented the fabric that will wrap around its upcoming Santa Cruz headset. The patent, filed exactly a year ago today and published yesterday, was first spotted by Reddit user valdovas. It describes an “ornamental design for…Read More Source: Oculus may...
Porn has always pushed the edges of technology, from VHS videotapes to virtual reality. And now it may also push the envelope for augmented reality (AR). ARConk, an AR porn service, debuted recently, giving consumers the ability to place animated porn stars in the real world. It remains to be seen if this kind of...
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