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 […]
Facebook Virtual Reality Tour Makes Immersive Stop at Denver Airport
From The Denver Post’s Tamara Chuang: Virtual reality takes viewers to a new dimension that can be hard to describe. So Facebook is offering demonstrations of special goggles at Denver International Airport through Jan. 24. The temporary exhibit, staffed by Facebook workers, is in the center of Concourse A between Denver Duty Free and Chef […]