2016’s Five Best Virtual Reality Headsets
Virtual reality isn’t some weird concept coming in the distant future. It’s here. It’s been a major year in VR, with many consumer options now on the market from big hardware players in time for Christmas 2016’s shopping rush. We saw the breakout of Facebook, Google, Sony, and others with their first headsets aimed at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Why VR Is the Next Step for Walking Simulator Games
Amid the dazzling, spectacle-driven PlayStation VR launch this month, a collection of developers have already harnessed the power of virtual reality to do more than freak you out or put you in the Batsuit. They’re doing something different: trying to tell intimate and human stories. For gaming, this is on-trend; over the past five years, […]
Rockband VR Is A Completely Different Kind Of Guitar Game
When Oculus first teased Rockband for virtual reality, it sounded like kind of a stupid idea. A guitar game? In 2016? In virtual reality? How passe. It was hard to imagine how the series’ iconic stream of colored notes would translate to VR, and I immediately dismissed the idea. It turns out I was right […]
Google Tilt Brush Adds The Power Of Creating Windows From VR To Reality
Google’s Tilt Brush, the app that lets you “sculpt” paintings in virtual reality, is getting a new set of features that move the VR tool far beyond the realm of interactive art. Usually, art is a single-person activity, but given the three-dimensional nature of Tilt Brush creations, the “multiplayer” mode is not only practical, but […]
How To Get A Job In The VR Economy
When Apple introduced the iPhone in 2007, it kicked off a booming tech ecosystem known as the app economy. And the app economy, in turn, generated hundreds of thousands of new jobs spanning design and development, project management, customer service, IT support, security, and even marketing. Similarly, we can expect to see VR create a […]