Google And The NFL Team Up To Make VR Films
The miniseries will focus on what game day in the NFL looks like, and the first episode will debut on Thanksgiving. Are you ready for some football in VR? Google and the NFL are. The two companies are teaming up to produce a nine part miniseries that will give fans an immersive view into what […]
VR Industry Hasn’t Bothered To Do Safety Research
Episode two of this season’s Black Mirror, ‘Playtest’, sparked the question by many including Tyler Wilde, Executive Editor at PC Gamer, to ask the question, “Is there a line where virtual reality becomes dangerous, and will we stop when we find it?” I don’t want to be a party pooper, but it appears the VR […]
The Reality Of AR/VR Competition
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality have a competition problem. But while most AR/VR companies will tell you how much better they are than their nearest direct competitor, they’re picking the wrong fight. The main event isn’t between Oculus, HTC, Sony, Samsung and Google for VR, or Microsoft, Magic Leap, Meta and ODG for AR (including […]
THE FUTURE IS NOW I Am Batman: Sony’s PlayStation VR Brings Virtual Reality To A Thrilling New Level
With the release of Sony’s new headset, everyday consumers can now experience virtual reality—and the surreal thrill of becoming the Dark Knight himself. I’m Bruce Wayne, standing in front of a grand piano. I reach my hand out, press a few keys, and suddenly the floor starts to move. I descend onto a platform, look […]
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, […]
HTC launches Viveport VR Store With Apps For Games, Music, Art, Education And More
HTC Friday morning announced the global launch of Viveport, a virtual reality app store for the HTC Vive, after months of beta testing. The VR store first opened in China in April, and since then teams in the Seattle area, San Francisco, Seattle, Taipei, Beijing and London having been working to get it ready for […]
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 […]
Can Virtual Reality Improve Education ?
Virtual Reality in the Classroom : Using virtual reality as an educational tool could transform the American high school experience. “We’ve gone from the Model T to the Tesla and from the switchboard to the smartphone. Yet high school has remained frozen in time.” That’s the theory that underpins XQ, a new nonprofit dedicated to […]
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 […]