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Through the Virtual Keyhole: Wales Estate Agent Pioneering Virtual House Viewings

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

How Does that Make You Feel?: Facial Tracking Comes to VR

There’s an exciting branch of computer technology known as affective computing. Yes. that’s “affective” and not “effective”. Affective computing is all about how we can integrate human emotional states into computing. It includes both how computers can read and understand our emotions as well as how they can reproduce them in different ways. Why would … Continue reading How Does that Make You Feel?: Facial Tracking Comes to VR

Review: John Terry’s Virtual Reality Football Academy

Training, Tuition and Virtual Hubris Systems: Cardboard, Daydream, GearVR Reviewed on: Cardboard Cost: £2.99 In what could possibly be considered the single most self-indulgent VR experience yet, the captain of Chelsea Football Club, John Terry, has unveiled what press releases claim is “the first ever virtual reality football academy”. On the basis of this experience, … Continue reading Review: John Terry’s Virtual Reality Football Academy

Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announce their 2017 Nomination for New Immersive Reality Awards

Virtual Reality is to be represented with two awards from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences it was announced. The categories, to be introduced at the 2017 D.I.C.E. Awards have been made in order to celebrate new technology platforms for games in what it terms ‘immersive reality’ and to celebrate games that take full … Continue reading Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences announce their 2017 Nomination for New Immersive Reality Awards