VRLA’s Summer Expo was the biggest they had ever had; by their own measurements there were over 6,000 attendees and they actually had to turn the event into a two-day experience. I attended the VRLA Summer Expo last weekend, and I gained some valuable insights about where VR content is going and where VR content is moving. The show kicked off with a series of major announcements including the VRLA founders announcing their own project’s release which is a VR movie creator called Mindshow that allows creators to import assets into VR and create VR movies.
Following Visionary VR’s announcement, Hewlett-Packard HPQ -0.14% (HP) showed off their Omen X VR backpack which I had the opportunity to try. VR Backpacks are a niche product, but they have many applications that desperately require high performance untethered VR which is simply something that does not exist today and likely will not exist until VR headsets like the HTC HTCCY +% Vive and Facebook’s FB -0.04% Oculus Rift become wireless. Following that, Advanced Micro Devices AMD +2.28% (AMD) came onstage to make two major announcements, they announced a $683 Cyberpower PC available on Amazon.com AMZN +0.35% and a partnership with Awesome Rocketship to build VR experiences in movie theaters as supplementary experiences to the actual films. Read More…