ANALYSIS: If you look deeply into recent VR announcements, past the high-level spec changes and aesthetic considerations, you’ll notice an important developing trend: Headset makers are actively trying to make VR easier for new users to experience — quickly. Over the past year, many VR companies have pivoted either fully or partially to…Read More Source:...
Acer announced its latest Windows Mixed Reality headset during a packed press conference at the annual IFA event in Berlin this morning. The Taiwanese technology company was among the first third-party hardware developers for Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality platform, which was launched as part of the Windows 10 operating system, and launche…Read More Source: Acer launches...
Entertainment One’s Secret Location is showing off its virtual reality film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story The Great C at the Venice film festival today. I saw the first part of the cinematic virtual reality (VR) narrative in a demo with the leaders of Toronto-based Secret Location. The full 30-minute film will debut in September,…Read...
Last year, Job Stauffer came to the attention of many people in the virtual reality space as the man who “lost 50 pounds using VR.” He’s actually lost quite a bit more than that since then, but Stauffer — a veteran of the games industry — seems much more focused these days on the perspective...
The Oculus Rift may be best known as a gaming platform, but Facebook’s Oculus Education division has been working over the last year to expand its appeal to schools, libraries, and museums. Having previously donated 100 Rift headsets and computers to California public libraries and sponsored VR research programs at universities, including MIT…Read More Source: Oculus...
Epson has found a new use for its Moverio augmented reality glasses: flying drones with its new Epson Drone Soar augmented reality app. Epson is releasing the app today to make it easier for drone pilots to navigate the skies while keeping the drone in full view. That’s because you see through the glass to...
TimefireVR has announced the grand opening of Hypatia, a persistent virtual city and social playground in virtual reality. The game is a free-to-play Windows PC VR world, playable in both VR and on 2D computer screens. In this world virtual citizens can let their creativity flourish through collaborative art-making, shared minigames, and social exp…Read More...
Every new computer screen depends upon a chip to update millions of pixels faster than your eyes can detect the changes — a particular challenge for VR, which requires dual displays. Today, Synaptics is raising the bar for flagship VR headsets by announcing two new components: a VR display driver chip and a cable interface...
SyncThink, which uses a virtual reality headset to perform neurotechnology and brain health analytics, announced today the release of expanded software capabilities to its platform. Healthy individuals such as athletes can use these new features to improve dynamic vision, a key characteristic of high performance in sport. The addition of these tool…Read More Source: SyncThink uses VR analytics to...
During the presentation of its GeForce RTX 2080 graphics cards last week, Nvidia spent most of its time on ray tracing. This is the high-end light modeling tech that could bring a new level of realism to games. But these new cards can do more than just ray tracing. One of the other potential standout...
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