Can Virtual Reality Sidestep the Paradox of Time Travel?
Most physicists agree that time travel into the past is impossible, but what if virtual reality (VR) could provide a workaround? Doron Friedman is the director of the Advanced Virtuality Lab (AVL) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel. His group researches a host of topics related to virtual, mixed and augmented reality as well […]
Watching The NBA In Virtual Reality Is Surprisingly Good
Carmelo, get your backside out of my face. That’s all I could think to myself one recent November evening, while watching a New York Knicks-Portland Trail blazers game. I wasn’t sitting in a posh courtside seat at Madison Square Garden, with Anthony’s derriere obstructing my view—though I may as well have been. No, I was […]
Pilot Projects Show How VR Will Revolutionize Education
A research report recently published in China entitled “The Impact of VR on Academic Performance,” asserts that virtual reality improves student test scores and knowledge retention. VR-based learning also tends to leave no student behind since it is able to appeal to even the least responsive of users, the report states. The study, which compared […]
The Untold Story of Magic Leap
From Wired’s Kevin Kelly: There is something special happening in a generic office park in an uninspiring suburb near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Inside, amid the low gray cubicles, clustered desks, and empty swivel chairs, an impossible 8-inch robot drone from an alien planet hovers chest-high in front of a row of potted plants. It is […]
Fab Lab VR Launching on HTC VIVE!
We are very excited to share our new Fab Lab VR video with you. With FLVR you can experience a Fab Lab from anywhere. FLVR recreates the layout of a fabrication laboratory, allowing you to walk around the space and to use a variety of digital fabrication machines. Here are some of the machines you can try: […]
Fab Lab VR Launching On HTC VIVE!
We are very excited to share our new Fab Lab VR video with you. With FLVR you can experience a Fab Lab from anywhere. FLVR recreates the layout of a fabrication laboratory, allowing you to walk around the space and to use a variety of digital fabrication machines. Here are some of the machines you […]
3D Printing And HoloLens To Improve Healthcare In Latin America
Brazilian doctors are using Microsoft’s HoloLens in order to improve spine surgery. In an interview with NextReality, Dr Henrique Lampert, an orthopeadic spine surgeon in Southern Brazil, and his partner Dr Bruno Gobbato have managed to perform surgery with aid from the device. The aim of their project, Lampert explains to NextReality, is to improve […]
Around The World In 80 Minutes – What is Google Earth VR? The Virtual Reality ‘Killer App’ – Here’s What We Know
The new Google Earth VR app lets intrepid, or not so intrepid, travellers fly around the globe and even the universe without getting out of bed. The new Google Earth virtual reality app lets intrepid, or not so intrepid, travellers fly around the globe while still in bed or sitting on the sofa. THANKS to Google […]
Your First VR Rig Might Fit In A Pocket
The future of virtual reality can be found in the fiction of Snow Crash, Oculus’ Max Cohen believes — but probably not in the way you’re thinking. In Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson’s seminal book based on a future world driven by consumerism and warped by privatization, people seek escape through a game-like metaverse using a […]
One Of the Best New VR Things: Buying A Car
I had a fascinating experience last week. I got to see and experience the new Jaguar I-Pace, the company’s electric answer to the as-yet-unannounced Tesla Y SUV, long before I’ll actually get to see the prototype. I didn’t just get to see the car — I got to understand intimately why the car was created […]