This week, VR helped make medical history when surgeons from around the world teamed up to perform a groundbreaking 33-hour procedure in a “virtual operating theatre.” The surgery being performed was one of the most complex separation procedures ever seen. The operation to separate three-year-old conjoined twins Arthur and Bernardo Lima was a success. Born … Continue reading VR Technology Aids Surgery to Separate Conjoined Twins
VR is a rapidly changing technology. As industry leaders strive to stake their claim in the brave new world of the metaverse, there is continued development in many of the restrictions users experience while using VR. One such area is vergence-accommodation conflict. Recent research carried out between Meta Reality Labs and Kent State University explores … Continue reading What Is Vergence-Accommodation Conflict and How Can Developers Tackle It?
Meta has announced the opening of its first retail outlet. Set to open its doors on the 9th of May, the retail store will be based at Meta’s Burlingame campus in California. Shoppers will be able to pick up products such as Quest 2, Meta’s Portal device, and Ray-Ban Stories sunglasses. With interactive demonstrations of … Continue reading Meta Opens First VR Store in the Physical World
It’s the buzzword that’s leading the discourse in every tech boardroom from Shenzhen to Silicon Valley; the metaverse. The race is on for web 3.0 dominance. Will we live in a digitopia driven by social media, or will our experience of this new frontier be gamified to the hilt? One thing that needs to be … Continue reading How Will the Metaverse Shape Cybersecurity?
Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) are all the rage these days and barely a week goes by without some new story breaking about how a metaverse-dwelling artist has launched a new gallery in their digital realm of choice with walls adorned with staggeringly expensive NFT art. If you’ve been asleep for the last few months, you’d … Continue reading Art, NFTs, and the Metaverse
The internet is about to undergo a major change. Over the next few years, the industry leaders in social media, video gaming, virtual reality, and cryptocurrency will usher in the “web 3,0”, better known as the metaverse. In a recent post, we discussed what you can expect from the metaverse; how you can work, play, … Continue reading Which Are the Best Metaverse Cryptocurrencies to Watch?
While our blog is usually dedicated to the consumer-side of VR and all of the great VR content you can enjoy
We all use a bunch of Google tools every day of our lives. I’m literally writing this article on Google Docs right now while listening to music on a Google Nest Mini.
Issues of accessibility when it comes to computer technology is now just a standard part of designing, well, anything.
One of the biggest hurdles facing immersive VR is freedom of movement. While we can easily make someone see and hear a large space around them, any attempt to actually move through that space will end in disaster if you aren’t careful. At first, the easiest solution was to use a gamepad,a device most people … Continue reading Consumer VR Treadmills Still Aren’t A Thing, But Kat VR Is Giving It A Go Anyway
