The Best Virtual Reality Devices From 2016
2016 Was The Year Of Virtual Reality Devices: Here Are The Best 2016 displayed several launches of virtual reality related devices, such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PS VR and Daydream, a new mobile platform from Google. Virtual reality is truly now, not just a distant dream. More titles are still ahead in the […]
Sticker Shock, and Maybe Nausea, Hamper Sales of Virtual Reality Gear
From The Seattle Times’ Nick Wingfield: For a technology to crack the mainstream, there is an unspoken understanding: It shouldn’t make the people who use it want to throw up. And yet there was a reminder, at this month’s International CES trade show in Las Vegas, of how far virtual reality has to go until […]
Behind the Numbers of Virtual Reality’s Sluggish Debut
From MIT Technology Review’s Signe Brewster: It’s been four years since a Kickstarter promised the first modern virtual-reality headset, and in 2016 we finally saw the technology’s commercial debut with high-end headsets from Oculus, Sony, and HTC hitting the market. More than two million desktop VR headsets are expected to have sold worldwide by year’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
HTC Is Launching Its Own Virtual Reality App Store Worldwide
HTC is launching Viveport, an alternative to the Steam catalog of Vive virtual reality experiences, worldwide this fall. Viveport was announced earlier this year, and it launched in China — where Steam is a much less established platform — in the spring. Now, a global developer beta will launch soon, followed by a full rollout. […]