This Accessory Makes VR So Precise A Surgeon Could Train With It
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile. The Dexmo glove, with its gleaming white carapace and jet-black connecting joints, looks much like a prop stolen from a Stanley Kubrick film set. Worn on the hand, it gives its wearer a cartoonish silhouette, as if some […]
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, […]
From Dutch Hospital To Afghan Clinic: New VR App Aims To Link 8.5m Doctors
MDLinking aims to be a WhatsApp, LinkedIn and virtual reality video library rolled into one to allow doctors from Afghanistan to Angola to share skills Imagine you’re a doctor in Swindon and a patient with a chewing tobacco habit turns up with unusual tongue lesions. What if you could, at the press of a few […]
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. […]
Riding An Animatronic Horse While Wearing A VR Headset Is The Best Of Everything
VR games can take you anywhere, and now, they can even carry you into the sky on the back of an eagle. What? Futuretown, a VR gaming company backed by former HTC CEO Peter Chou, announced its new hardware platform called 5D Totalmotion at the Tokyo Game Show today. The device is a motion machine […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Jesus VR: The Story of Christ” Review – Virtual Reality Cinema Gains Disciples
The acting? Dire. The direction? Awful. The adaptation? Conservative and pedestrian. In conventional terms, everything about this new retelling of the Jesus story – showing here in Venice in an abbreviated 40-minute cut – is ropey. It is all too clearly influenced by Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: the film has the same […]