Wearable Technology failures – a recurring topic in the popular press. Every month, it seems someone sees wearables as nothing more than a niche market for a small group of technology fanatics. …
Figment VR’s Virtual Reality iPhone Case is a smartly designed product that solves two problems. It protects your phone and, in origami-like fashion, flips open to become a virtual reality viewer. The …
Now that Black Friday is here, what about virtual reality shopping? Could VR end the madness of the Thanksgiving crowds rushing into stores and fighting over deals? Or at least enhance our customary retail …
Can virtual reality save wildlife? It’s a great crowdsourced idea coming out of Tongal, a video-content studio. It’s a little beyond the current capabilities of VR today, but only today. The technical capabilities …
Disney’s Lion King VR Experience the “Circle of Life” brings more than delight, it marks a major step into the world of virtual reality entertainment. Over the past year filmmakers, media and …
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The New York Times Virtual Reality film of the Paris vigils continues their VR journalism experiment. After the distribution of Google Cardboard and the release of the VR documentary, “The Displaced”, it …
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Chris Milk’s Ted Talk is from March 2015, but with all the Virtual Reality developments this November, it worth watching again. Or for the first time, if you haven’t seen it. For …
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Everysight, a new wearable tech company, has announced Augmented Reality Smart Glasses for consumers. Spun off from Elbit Systems, which designs helmet-mounted displays for the military, the glasses look like a regular pair of sports sunglasses.
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Our first thought with Augmented Reality is usually eyewear – you overlay information on the real world. But what about enhancing your audio experience of the world? Here’s where Doppler Labs comes …
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With all the news on Virtual Reality this week, it’s easy to miss the developments in wearables and fashion. Some of the designs sound straight out of science fiction – clothing that …
Google Expeditions Project is expanding to twelve more cities in the United States and three internationally. The Google kit for schools includes Asus Smartphones, Google Cardboards that turn them into Virtual Reality …
Today, The New York Times takes a major step into virtual reality. In collaboration with Google, the Times is delivering Google Cardboards to its US subscribers and offering a new form of …
Is there a future for Second Life? You have to ask when you look at the rapid developments in virtual reality and how far Second Life has fallen. Remember the days when magazines glowingly …
Let the smack down begin. In the MIT Technology Review, Tom Simonite explores the Facebook Google VR battle struggle for dominance in virtual reality. The two tech giants bring radically different approaches …
Leave it to Rihanna and her designer, Adam Selman, to push the boundaries of wearable tech. Working with MasterCard, Selman is designing dresses, sunglasses, gloves and jewelry that serve as mobile payment …
Here are the Virtual Reality resources for our EDUCAUSE 2015 preconference seminar, “Augmented Minds, Smart Bodies: Wearable Tech Enters the Academy.” We recommend that you download one or more of the first four Apps …
Leave it to Mark Cuban to help bring about the first virtual reality sports broadcast. The Indiana University Athletics Department announced: Working with the Dallas based company BigLook360, fans will be able …
Wearable Tech and health has been a focus of wearable vendors but virtual reality and health is a fascinating area. We’re not thinking here of the nausea issue in VR (which will …
Here’s the latest from Magic Leap, the company that Google has invested a half billion dollars in. While it’s unclear if Google will use any of Magic Leap’s technology, it’s definitely a …
After layoffs, paywalls, and endless redesign of websites, what does traditional news media try next? Virtual reality of course. The New York Times announced a new NYT VR initiative in partnership with …
What would happen if you combined virtual reality education, entertainment, and shopping all in one platform? Educational purists might squirm but it’s not such a foreign concept in higher education. If …
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We didn’t have the opportunity to experience CNN’s attempt to use Virtual Reality in the political debate last night, but it’s worth reading the reviews. This was live-streaming virtual reality in the …
We should have seen this coming – Google Street View will now offer a Virtual Reality experience. Google announced that they are providing full support for the use of Google Cardboard VR …
The Hunger Games Virtual Reality experience with the Samsung Gear VR opened today in New York City at the Pop14 event space. It’s an incredible opportunity to try out the new Samsung …
The ever-inventive Disney research team has developed an amazing augmented reality coloring book. In a world of rich visual displays, coloring books seem like an anachronism. Yet they remain one of the …
Microsoft Band 2 There’s a lot to like about the second generation Microsoft Band 2 announced Tuesday morning. It’s a major improvement over the first version and could stake a claim …
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The Wove flexible wearable tech band is a fascinating device. Simply put, it’s a smartwatch, though the company behind it, Polyera, doesn’t use the term. They call it a “digital canvas” which …