Brain injuries are a touchy topic in sports such as boxing and American football. Repeated strikes to the head can have a devastating effect on the long-term health of players. Sometimes the results of this accumulated damage only becomes apparent in autopsies. One study found that 78% of football players exhibited signs of brain disease … Continue reading VR Could Be Saving Brains in Contact Sports
Nintendo is currently “studying” the potential of Virtual Reality on the Nintendo Switch, clarifying that Nintendo are still “in a phase of investigation” when it comes to VR and there are no definite plans to bring a device to Nintendo’s latest console. This came after fevered speculation that Nintendo could be making their return to … Continue reading Nintendo to Potentially Add Virtual Reality Support to the Nintendo Switch, “If It’s Something For Our Audience”
A Texas jury yesterday has awarded ZeniMax, parent company of Bethesda and iD Software $500 million dollars after finding that Oculus and founder Palmer Luckey had breached a non-disclosure agreement, as well as infringed on ZeniMax’s copyright. The jury did find against allegations that Oculus stole ZeniMax’s trade secrets and as a result the ultimate … Continue reading ZeniMax Awarded $500 Million in Major Legal Case against Oculus
The promise of affordable, high quality virtual reality may have come closer. A crowdsourced mobile VR setup launched on Kickstarter that promises to transform your smartphone into a SteamVR compatible VR setup for less than $100 has successfully made its funding target in just eight hours. NOLO VR, a project by Beijing-based startup LYRobotix and led … Continue reading Smartphone SteamVR Kit NOLO Kickstarted in Eight Hours
In news that will delight fans of questionable cyberpunk films from the 1990s, seminal CGI film and VR influence The Lawnmower Man is coming to Virtual Reality as a multiple episode VR series. Inspired by the 1992 film legally proven not to be based on a Stephen King story of the same name, the Virtual … Continue reading Cult Virtual Reality Film The Lawnmower Man to Reboot as a VR Web Series
As the curtain drops on CES International 2016, there is one clear and very obvious takeaway. Forget self-driving cars and 8k curved TV’s; VR is the Next Big Thing. That much was made obvious by the sheer number of HMD manufacturers, software vendors and third-party hardware companies vying for attention on the exhibition floor, as … Continue reading VR Fever Sweeps CES 2016 Show
There are several subtle but very compelling hints that Apple may be planning to get into the VR space, and may have already assembled a secret team that is working on Apple-branded VR. Apple are famously tight-lipped about future projects, but during a recent earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked about VR specifically. … Continue reading Apple May Be Developing A Secret VR Platform
This is another virtual environment or to be more exact, a virtual world in which you can interact with others and form new friendships. Social networking is the main theme here. The emphasis is meeting new people in exciting places and trying out various activities. These include shopping, playing games or relaxing at home. This … Continue reading Kaneva
VPL Research was a company founded in 1984 by Jaron Lanier, who is often regarded as the person who coined the term virtual reality. He is also credited with further popularising the term. The company was started in the corner of Lanier’s cottage, in Palo Alto, a city in the San Francisco Bay Area, made … Continue reading VPL Research Jaron Lanier
