Surround Sound: The Philharmonia Orchestra Takes On VR To Attract Younger Audiences
The Philharmonia Orchestra is capturing its performances in VR Classical music has a problem: young people just aren’t listening to it. For the Philharmonia Orchestra and its Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, 59 (above centre), one solution is VR. “A symphony orchestra on stage in a concert hall can sometimes be a distant experience,” says Salonen. […]
VR First Expands Its Academic Labs To Twelve More Universities
VR First is a marriage of Crytek’s passion for VR and their game engine CRYENGINE with companies such as Leap Motion, OSVR, and Razer to bring virtual reality education to academic institutions around the world. VR First brings event space and workstations to universities via a well equipped VR lab and promotes VR entrepreneurship, community, […]
Time Launches New, Expansive VR Program
With virtual reality in its first year of real availability, Time Inc. is launching an initiative that will majorly expand its VR journalism program. The newly announced Life VR will host projects created for the company’s various outlets, which include Sports Illustrated, People, and InStyle. While Life VR will feature the kind of 360-degree video […]
Why Pokémon Go’s John Hanke Says Augmented Reality Is Better Than Virtual Reality
This summer’s hit mobile game Pokémon Go, made by San Francisco-based Niantic, spurred renewed interest in augmented reality, the technology that lets virtual objects appear as though they’re in the real world. On the latest episode of Recode Decode, Niantic CEO John Hanke said he sees augmented reality as an important complement to his company’s […]
Virtual Reality Takes On the Videoconference
Get ready for your next conference call—in virtual reality. With equipment for virtual-reality viewing now on the consumer market, public tech companies and venture capitalists are exploring possible applications in everything from videogames to medicine. And some are betting that virtual-reality headsets could be the next big thing in business-meeting software, upending the dreaded videoconference […]
Are You Ready For Some VR Football? Fox Kicks It Off This Weekend
College football is ready for its virtual close-up this weekend. Fox Sports and LiveLike will livestream the game between Ohio State and Oklahoma in VR this Saturday. The broadcast will feature five cameras, which will be placed around the stadium for “best impact.” LiveLike allows users to switch between camera perspectives on-the-fly during the broadcast. […]
A Virtual Reality Future Means Changing Broadband Reality Today
Last month, a ripple traversed the internet when the White House posted an Instagram picture of our commander in chief just outside the Oval Office wearing a pair of virtual reality glasses. In the photo, President Barack Obama is trying out a virtual reality experience captured during his trip to Yosemite National Park and created […]
Virtual Reality AI Expected to Grab Tokyo Game Show Spotlight
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — This weekend’s Tokyo Game Show is expected to be the largest in the popular video-gaming convention’s 20-year history. At least 600 exhibitors — 100 more than last year’s record-breaking turnout that drew nearly 300,000 people — will gather just outside Tokyo Thursday through Sunday to showcase the best and brightest […]
Snapchat Could Be Working on its own Augmented-Reality Glasses
As early as 2014, it seemed Snapchat was interested in developing its own wearable product. That year, the now $18 billion company best known for its disappearing messaging product acquired Vergence Labs, which specializes in creating a smart-glasses product. Last month, C.E.O. Evan Spiegel was photographed wearing what appeared to be a smart-glasses prototype—a pair […]
Google’s VR Cardboard Camera App Is Coming To iOS
The odds of you using Cardboard Camera, Google’s simple app for creating 360-degree VR images, just got significantly higher. The tool, which has so far only been available on Android, is now available on the iOS App Store. And both versions now include sharing features that realize the app’s raison d’etre: showing your friends and […]