Virtual reality is used as a training aid in many sports such as golf, athletics, skiing, cycling etc. It is used as an aid to measuring athletic performance as well as analysing technique and is designed to help with both of these. It also used in clothing/equipment design and as part of the drive to … Continue reading Virtual Reality in Sport
If you’ve never had to work in a retail job, count yourself lucky. The hours are long, the customers irate and the work itself pretty boring. For many people retail work is their first entry into the job market and more often than not they are woefully unprepared for the times when things go wrong. … Continue reading Welcome to Walmart: Training Staff with VR
Wouldn’t it be nice to have an office on the beach or in a forest? One company, Mure VR, thinks they might have the answer to your cubicle-inspired prayers. John Paul Sartre famously said that “Hell is other people” and if you’ve ever had to share office space with coworkers you know that it’s true. … Continue reading Get Away from it All with a VR Office Holiday
In the world of serious cinema you don’t get much fancier than the Cannes Film Festival. This is not the place to watch the latest Bayformer film or get your dose of Marvel superheroes. So when immersive VR films make it to the hallowed screens of Cannes it’s a sign that the time may have … Continue reading Experimental VR Film Screened at Cannes
We get it, “virtual reality” is now a big buzzword. Every newly-minted technology goes through a phase where every marketing department tries to figure out how they can use the latest buzzword to get some eyes on whatever they’re doing at the moment. So now we have a “VR experience” from totally radical surfer dude … Continue reading Hang 10 With Kelly Slater in “VR” Dude
Have you ever thought how those robots that build our cars or vacuum our floors learn to do their job properly? You may think that someone simply sits down and programs all they need to know into them. Certainly there’s a lot of programming that goes into even a simple robot, but it turns out … Continue reading Virtual Reality is Perfect for Training Our Robot Overlords
Close your eyes, relax your senses and allow your imagination to run free. People who have worked in a corporate environment or recently studied at school or college might be aware of the concept of wellness, mindfulness and guided meditation. It is an exercise one or several people are guided through a calming, imaginative and … Continue reading Happinss Virtual Reality: The Future of Corporate and Personal Wellness?
This week the news broke out that Steam will adding VR video to it’s platform in the form of the Steam 360 Video Player. This is a big deal, in case you didn’t know. If you’ve never heard of Steam then, first of all, welcome back to civilization! While you were away on that desert … Continue reading Steam Expands into VR Videos
A new 360 Video experience from the New Zealand Fire Service allows you to experience what it is like to see a fire spread before your eyes. The VR experience, Escape My House, is a free app designed with Google Cardboard in mind, although as a 360 video app basically any VR set up will run … Continue reading Escape My House Lets You Experience Virtual Fire Roaring Around You
A Welsh estate agent is using virtual reality to bring the viewing to prospective buyers with the pioneering use of a new VR app. Jeffrey Ross has begun rolling out what it calls JRVR, a virtual reality app powered by Matterport 3D imaging. This allows for entire floor plans, rooms and whole houses to be captured in … Continue reading Through the Virtual Keyhole: Wales Estate Agent Pioneering Virtual House Viewings
