Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
Ready for some alien animal husbandry? That’s the promise of a new AR game for Magic Leap. The Mixed Reality experience, Strangelets, is the last release from Insomniac Games, which was recently acquired by Sony. It …
There are some good and not so good Black Friday VR deals for VR headsets this year. Don’t expect to find the popular Oculus Quest at a huge savings. You’re going to pay full price with …
Read more Best Black Friday VR Deals – Virtual Reality at a Discount
This year’s Thanksgiving Day parade includes a live broadcast in 360 and celebrity holograms from Verizon. As in years past, some 8,000 people and large balloons will wind their way through Manhattan in a tradition that …
Read more 2019 Thanksgiving Day Parade – 360 Video and Holograms
A newly invented skin patch could bring virtual touch to our VR experiences. Up to now, virtual reality has mostly been confined to visual and audio sensations. Adding haptics through virtual touch would open new opportunities …
Let’s be honest: we need a simple VR headset. Something like the Oculus Quest, but a device that anyone can pick up and use without assistance. For all the talk about the disruptive qualities of virtual …
This is not turning out to be a good month for the Magic Leap glasses. Funding challenges and a couple of big-name departures have hit the company hard. The glasses were released only 15 months ago …
The well-known secrecy in Cupertino ensures we’ll never have the full picture of Apple’s AR headset until it’s released. We always thought Apple would have an augmented reality device by 2020, but it now appears that …
After close to a year, Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 second-gen mixed reality headset is finally out. It was introduced back in February 2019 art Mobile World Congress, and the intervening delay has brought few surprises. There’s the …
No surprise that we’re huge fans of The Matrix around here. And we’re waiting impatiently for the next version (which goes into production next year). In the meantime, we’ll focus on Microsoft’s DreamWalker project, a fascinating …
Read more Microsoft’s DreamWalker – an Early Version of the Matrix?
Sandbox VR is one of the latest players on the location-based VR scene. And we get the idea behind it – it’s easy to grasp when you’re living in cramped spaces in New York City. But …
Read more Sandbox VR Raises Millions from A-List Celebs but can it Succeed?
So much for Google’s Daydream VR platform. Initially a promising development in mobile VR, Google has officially killed it off. The new Pixel 4 phones won’t support it, they’ve stopped selling Daydream View headsets, and they …