Virtual and augmented reality technology has become pretty good at fooling our brains into believing virtual objects are really right in front of us. Motion tracking technology and direct sensors can make our virtual hands exactly mimic our real ones. Allowing us to push and pull virtual objects. Unfortunately if you did reach out to … Continue reading Getting to Grips with Haptic Technology
This is used to refer to the input devices, clothing and equipment worn by people who engage in virtual reality. This includes: Virtual reality glasses or goggles Data gloves Head mounted displays (HMD) Data suits Workbenches Joysticks This also includes haptic devices which enable the user to feel a sense of touch when they manipulate … Continue reading Virtual Reality Gear
A very important aspect of virtual reality is the environment in which it takes place and must be carefully engineered to achieve a convincing experience. For example, if even the smallest of elements in a virtual reality environment is out of place, the entire experience can be destroyed. For the it to be convincing, it … Continue reading Virtual Reality Environments
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
The Apple WWDC (worldwide developer’s conference) has dropped several exciting bits of news from the Cupertino cult-favourite company. We’re getting a snazzy new iPad Pro lineup, Siri will become Skynet-smart with iOS 11 and Apple now makes a speaker. For us here at VRS though, every WWDC reopens the hope that Apple may finally throw … Continue reading Apple Takes a Bite of AR at WWDC
Samsung’s Gear VR mobile headset is undoubtedly one of the best mobile VR headsets you can buy, with the caveat that you must have a compatible Samsung Galaxy phone to use it with. However, since Samsung also makes very good phones (when they don’t explode) that’s not too harsh a requirement. What makes the … Continue reading Samsung “Gears” Up with VR Rights Acquisitions
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
