Rumors continue to swirl around a release date for the new Apple Glasses. The AR or Mixed Reality wearable could be out as early as next year. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo who has a better track …
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Getting Zoom fatigued? You’re not alone. We are – maybe because we’re living on it almost all day, every day. So with the news today that the Spatial VR collaboration platform is opening up its doors …
VR hygiene will be a major issue once the Coronavirus begins to recede. The global pandemic will eventually run its course, and education and arts organizations, entertainment venues, and other gathering places will reopen. None of …
Frequent readers will know we spend a lot of time in virtual reality – and writing and thinking about it. Its creative potential just draws us in, especially in the immersive storytelling area. But creativity also …
Read more New Banksy Artwork Honors Coronavirus Healthcare Workers
A report today from Bloomberg News provides details on Facebook’s effort to develop a new Oculus Quest VR headset. From our conversations at OC6, we were expecting to see a new Quest this year. But with …
Read more Facebook is Developing a New Oculus Quest VR Headset
Coronavirus fighting AR Glasses are a fascinating augmented reality development. There are obvious use-cases for an AR device like this and a host of ethical implications, especially when government agencies start using immersive technologies to monitor …
Read more Coronavirus Fighting AR Glasses take your Temperature
It’s been out less than a year (debuting May 21, 2019), but it’s good to see the popular Oculus Quest back in stock. Both the Rift S and the Oculus Quest VR headsets have been almost …
Read more Oculus Quest Back in Stock – the Popular Headset Returns
Every year, we do our festival review of the VR films (or 360 videos) at the Tribeca film festival. This year, the VR experiences in the Cinema360 program are a mixed bag. They range from compelling …
Read more Festival Review: Tribeca’s Mixed Bag of 360 Video Experiences
Despite billions in funding and years of development that finally gave us a Mixed Reality headset, Magic Leap is cutting staff and shifting its focus to the enterprise market. The Florida based company had already been …
Many things are holding VR back from widespread public acceptance – cost, content, and hardware design are all significant factors. A Kickstarter project from TGO takes aim at one element of the design issue by creating …
Read more We Need These Button-free Controllers for Virtual Reality
Here’s a fascinating Apple Card AR concept project that would provide your card balances and transactions through augmented reality. The project is by AR VR product designer Volodymyr Kurbatov and not done by Apple. But as …
Read more Apple Card AR Concept – Your Balance Info in Augmented Reality
We may not spend a lot of time wearing our Snap Spectacles these days, but we’re always intrigued by the company’s AR projects. One of the latest is their new AR lens for COVID-19 donations. To …
As one more casualty of the Coronavirus, the Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360 program moves online this year. We’re trying to look at this on the bright side. The Festival, which is right down the street from …
Read more Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360 Moves Online This Year
High schools and higher education may be rushing to embrace online learning (despite the zoombombing and privacy issues along the way), but it’s not so simple in primary schools. With almost 1.5 billion children out of …
Read more AR Reading App Offers Free Content During Coronavirus
It’s no surprise that theme parks are devastated by the Coronavirus. All a park can do is close their doors, promise to retain their employees (or not), and watch the balance sheet turn red. The public will …
Read more We’re Left to VR Amusement Rides During the Coronavirus
Seeing the damage caused by the Coronavirus in virtual reality is an eye-opening experience. Most of the public understands the external symptoms of the virus but seeing the way it impacts the lungs is something that …
As companies shut down and ask all but essential workers to stay home, Facebook’s AR reviews have been suspended. Given the effect of the Coronavirus on our economy, health, and even our lives, this isn’t high …
As society shudders to a halt with the Coronavirus, the artist KAWS AR art sculptures may be the safest way to experience groundbreaking art this month. Virtual Reality may be challenged in delivering on the promise …
Read more KAWS’s AR Art Sculptures Ideal for Coronavirus Pandemic
We haven’t been the only ones to question Magic Leap’s future over the years. The well-funded Florida company took forever to release their Mixed Reality headset and, until the last moment, refused to do live demos. …
Read more Magic Leap’s Future in Doubt with Sale or Partnership
Varjo continues to develop innovative Mixed Reality experiences with their human-eye resolution headsets. We’ve demoed their headsets before – at the AWE last spring – and were blown away by the realism. Varjo’s latest development is …
Read more Varjo’s Innovative Mixed Reality Merges the Real and Virtual
Given the recent news, we’re looking at the Coronavirus and Virtual Reality. Several VR and AR conferences are canceled or postponed, and we expect more to follow. SXSW caved in yesterday, and while it covers far …
An exciting bit of news surfaced today regarding a new VR distribution platform for the Oculus Quest. In a series of tweets, Chris Pruett, Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, discussed their curation policy and offered …
Read more A New VR Distribution Platform for the Oculus Quest?
Despite Apple taking its time to develop AR Glasses, you can now shop in augmented reality through the company’s Quick Look platform. The AR platform has been around since 2018 and gives you the option of …
Read more Shop in Augmented Reality? Now You Can Through Apple
The recent VR news out of South Korea is remarkable – a mother reuniting with her deceased child in VR. You knew we’d have to deal with the dead in VR – or at least the …
Read more The Dead in VR: Mother Reunites with her Deceased Child
The Sundance 2020 New Frontier program offered an amazing selection of VR experiences. One of the highlights this year was Metamorphic, an exploration of movement and play in VR. Designed by Lead Artists Matthew Niederhauser, Wesley …
Leave it to an artist to pull off a simple Google Maps hack with nothing more than 99 smartphones in a red wagon on the streets of Berlin. It got us thinking about the implications of …
Read more A Google Maps Hack with 99 Phones – Will VR be Next?
Persuasion Machines is a compelling experience at the Sundance Film Festival which grapples with the issue of data privacy in XR. The project builds upon the Netflix documentary, The Great Hack, pushing it into a VR …
Read more Sundance Takes on the Question of Data Privacy in XR
Let’s take a look at Octi, the world’s first AR social platform. You might think what we’re thinking, that the world isn’t quite ready for an AR social network. We just don’t have the augmented reality …
If Mojo Vision’s AR contact lenses don’t spur you into thinking about the future, we’re not sure what will. The company is working on AR displays so small you won’t notice them even when they’re positioned …
Samsung’s Neon project was the talk of CES 2020 – no mean feat at a conference that boasts 4,000 exhibitors and over 200,000 attendees. It’s hard to find anything at CES, but seemly, everyone found Samsung’s …
Read more Samsung’s Neon Project – Artificial Humans or Chatbots?