If you’ve had any interest at all in VR over the last few years you’ll have no doubt seen Oculus founder Palmer Lucky on the cover of time magazine. As cool as VR feels to experience, no one has so far managed to actually look cool while using a VR system, which is why it’s … Continue reading FaceDisplay VR Proves that we Haven’t Reached Peak Weird Yet
The still in development Hololens currently dominates the mixed reality market, but a new prototype challenger has appeared from Avegant.
On 31st March 2017 Palmer Luckey left Oculus, the company that he founded on the basis of a dream. With Oculus he had helped lead Virtual Reality down a road that while filled with rather bumpy patches has ultimately brought VR into the mainstream once again, this time looking like it is here to stay. Luckey, … Continue reading The Rollercoaster Rift of Oculus: Part One: Palmer Luckey and the Kickstarter Dream
Virtual Reality had a rather interesting, if tougher than some expected launch year. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both hit their first birthdays this month, with Playstation VR hitting its six month milestone as well. It has been a very interesting time, with a lot of change and a lot of evolution in the … Continue reading 5 Reasons why Virtual Reality is Booming, not Waning
When you hear the name Ridley Scott, you immediately think of visually and technically complex films. The famous director counts cinematic classics such as Blade Runner and Alien among his achievements. Films that went on to create entire visual languages and forever changing the entire genre of cinematic science fiction. Scott is certainly no stranger … Continue reading Ridley Scott’s Company Launches VR Division
When Facebook originally bought out Oculus Rift many were somewhat baffled about the rationale of the decision. To be sure, Facebook indicated that they felt VR (and AR) were the future of social media, but for us non-visionaries it has never been entirely clear how the two would meet. Now Facebook has finally showcased their … Continue reading Facebook Shows off its First VR Experience with Facebook Spaces
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
Australia has a reputation for, well, a lot of things. One of them is that Australians are a hardy people. This should not be surprising since even the most innocent-looking critter is probably deadly and most of the actual Australian landscape is a murderous desert. Which means it makes sense that an Australian would be … Continue reading Australian Hero Spends 36 Hours in VR
Unless you live somewhere like North Korea, chances are that every day you’re confronted with hundreds if not thousands of adverts bidding for your hard-earned cash. It’s one of the prices we have to pay for living in a capitalist society and even our movies can be filled with product placements. It turns out that … Continue reading Adverts Could Be Coming to Your HTC Vive
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
