HTC Vive gets Oculus Rift ASW-like motion smoothing
HTC Vive headsets finally get something users have been clamoring for: motion smoothing, which mimics Oculus Rift’s Asynchronous SpaceWarp from 2016. Read the full article…
Read MoreHTC Vive headsets finally get something users have been clamoring for: motion smoothing, which mimics Oculus Rift’s Asynchronous SpaceWarp from 2016. Read the full article…
Read MoreThe 2018 VR Awards highlight some of the best games, social experiences, films, enterprise, and even medical uses for virtual reality. Read the full article…
Read MoreSixense will offer a refund to its 2013 Kickstarter backers for its Stem virtual reality controllers. The company is shifting focus to enterprise VR. Read the full article…
Read MoreTwo Texas-based pilots have been flying a small plane while relying mostly on a $199 VR headset for visual guidance — all in the name of safer flying. Read the full article…
Read MoreJaunt’s last two months have been pretty eventful: Originally known for virtual reality experiences, the company recently shifted into providing augmented and extended reality technologies to other companies, and even installed a new CEO. Today, it unexpectedly announced that it’s winding down its VR products and services to focus its e… Read the full article…
Read MoreComputer-aided engineering (CAD) is a $9 billion industry, and Onshape wants to shake it up. So the cloud-based CAD tool maker is using Magic Leap’s augmented reality glasses to enable engineers to collaborate when designing products in 3D. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Onshape showed a demo of the tech at the L.E.A.P. Conference in Los Ange…Read More Powered… Read the full article…
Read MoreOPINION: Google’s annual October hardware event was odd for several reasons this year, presumably because so much news leaked out early and the company clearly reshuffled the whole presentation. The devices that were announced came out all at once, and other news was left for after the keynote. But there was also plenty that wasn’t… Read the full article…
Read MoreLeveraging the extra “depth” data found in certain recent iPhone photographs, Facebook today announced the rollout of 3D Photos: images that look flat at first, but can be examined from different angles either through Facebook itself, or using Oculus VR headsets. The basic premise of a 3D Photo is that the dual cameras on the iPhone… Read the full article…
Read MoreRobin Hunicke, CEO of Funomena and a well-known game designer, unveiled a demo of a planting game called Luna: Moondust Garden on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses. I tried out the demo at the Magic Leap L.E.A.P. event in Los Angeles. It used the same characters and art style of Luna,… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: The VR industry has been through quite the tempest during the past few years, and much of the rollercoaster ride of emotions and expectations has been due to what, in my opinion, have been major misunderstandings about the emerging tech’s product-market fit. And yet, despite all of these perceptual barriers and the artificial forces… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe first thing I thought about when the Oculus Quest was officially announced at the recent Oculus Connect 5 is using the standalone wireless VR headset in a wide, open field outside. The idea of playing a free-roaming game by actually running around in a massive space sounds amazing. We did some light tests with the Lenovo Mirage… Read the full article…
Read MoreJust the thought of David Lynch-level weirdness in virtual reality is already enough to make my head spin, but I’m sure lots of people will be pretty excited for this official Twin Peaks VR experience. The cult classic series is indeed getting its very own experiential piece for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Collider reports (in… Read the full article…
Read MoreNomadic will open its first virtual reality arcade featuring the first-person shooter game Arizona Sunshine in Orlando, Florida. The San Rafael, California-based Nomadic will partner with Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based Vertigo Arcades to take the popular shooter game into VR arcades, where players won’t have the inconvenience of having to… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe company Dream is named appropriately. For three years, it has been working on an online collaboration tool that enables people to view web sites on the Chrome browser in virtual reality. It’s like the operating system for virtual reality, and it is available for free on the Oculus Store. That might seem a bit crazy,… Read the full article…
Read MoreHaptx has been working on its haptic gloves — which give you a sense of touch in virtual reality — for a few years. Today, the company is launching its Haptx Gloves Development Kit, an industrial-grade product for advanced simulation in virtual reality. Haptx Gloves wants to empower professional VR users to develop simulations with real…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: On the night of September 3, 1943, hundreds of Royal Air Force pilots and crew prepared themselves and their planes for the long flight across the North Sea to conduct a night-time raid over Berlin. One of over 350 raids carried out over the German capital during the war, what made this a significant… Read the full article…
Read MoreAfter decades of using wall-mounted TVs, hospitalized patients have recently started using virtual reality to “transport” themselves into more relaxing settings. Hot on the heels of last week’s Oculus-VRHealth initiative to manage pain for chemotherapy patients and mothers in labor, the Starlight Children’s Foundation, SOTI,… Read the full article…
Read MoreVirtual reality is still a fledgling industry, and it’s hard to make money on the relatively small installed base of VR headsets. But that doesn’t bother Robin Hunicke, the CEO and cofounder of San Francisco-based indie game studio Funomena. Hunicke, who is also director of the Art, Games, & Playable Media BA program at the Universi…Read… Read the full article…
Read MoreMarvel: Powers United VR‘s roster of playable heroes ended up being a pretty decent selection of spandex-wearing super people. But well all know there was one major omission from the Oculus Rift exclusive – Iron Man. At Oculus Connect 5 this week Steve Arnold, Head of Oculus Studios, talked to us about why Tony Stark… Read the full article…
Read MoreOne of the most impressive VR technology demos we’ve ever seen is on display at Oculus Connect 5 in San Jose. In a corner of the convention center The VOID brought Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, demonstrating publicly for the first time that the startup is using Oculus Rift inside its VR helmet to provide the visuals you… Read the full article…
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