Sundance Spotlights Virtual Reality’s Quest for Respect
From Variety’s Andrew Wallenstein: The Sundance Film Festival may not seem like a place for contemplating the frightening speed with which technology is revolutionizing media. But even those who came to Park City just to watch good old-fashioned cinema got a taste of what’s to come at Passage Pictures’ afterparty Monday for its new film […]
October Is VR’s biggest Month: Google Daydream, Oculus Touch, And PlayStation VR
Even if you’ve tried virtual reality or already own a VR system, nothing has prepared you for what’s coming over the next month. Three major VR platforms are expected to launch before Thanksgiving Day with massive announcements and retail roll-outs in the works. Despite our dogged pursuit of VR news at UploadVR, the technology is […]
VR Goggles And Giant Touchscreen Tables: How Audi Explains New Car Technology
The company is using VR the way you might think, as well as some novel applications. Although we usually cover our own travel costs, in this case that was not an option; flights and accommodation on this trip to Munich were paid for by Audi. MUNICH, GERMANY—The transformation of our cars over the past few […]
Virtual Reality Classrooms Another Way Chinese Kids Gain an Edge
Genders of virtual teachers can change to suit cultural norms of the classroom Deep within a building shaped like the Starship Enterprise, a little-known Chinese company is working on the future of education. Vast banks of servers record children at work and play, tracking touchscreen swipes, shrugs and head swivels – amassing a database that […]
Google Hires Former Samsung VR Exec To Work On Daydream
Google is forming a rather hefty team within the company to tackle smartphone-based virtual reality. The latest addition to the team is Matt Apfel, a former VP of content strategy for Samsung’s Milk VR (now Samsung VR). Apfel left Samsung in March and has been hired By Google to work on content for Daydream, Google’s next-gen mobile VR ecosystem, Variety reports. […]
Why VR Will Revolutionize Education
Using virtual reality in education is no longer a fantasy, but a reality for numerous companies and educational institutions. The creation of VR content can substantially enhance the field of education, bringing multiple advantages and opportunities to the traditional classroom. Although there are several threats to a successful integration of VR in the field of […]
Want To See The Future? Put On Those Weird Goggles
Augmented reality and virtual reality is seen to be adopted across industries by 2025. Gitex Technology Week to put premium focus on booming sector If you’ve slipped on some of those sometimes-weird-looking binoculars that immerse you into a whole new world of VR and AR, you’ve just taken a peek into how the future will […]
Virtual Reality Lets You Stroll Around A Breast Cancer Cell
I feel like I’ve landed on an alien planet. I’m walking across the surface of a breast cancer cell as drug nanoparticles whizz past my head like spaceships. One of the particles suddenly crashes in front of me, and I teeter on the edge of an abyss as it is sucked through the surface. It […]
Gear VR Owners Can Watch The Rio Olympics In Virtual Reality
85 hours of this year’s Olympics will be viewable using a VR headset. Last October, Samsung offered exclusive live streaming of one of the DNC debates using the Gear VR, its virtual reality headset. It was the first major debate to be presented in VR, but in the end the presentation, which switched between four […]
Is The Future Of VR NVIDIA, Sony And Apple?
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when analysts like Goldman Sachs make estimates that the industry is poised to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates are so massive because the breakthrough […]