Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
There’s a fascinating article in PC Gamer that covers AR/VR predictions from 2010. As Tyler Wilde notes, it’s easy to make bold predictions about technology ten years out. Few ever bother to check and see if …
Read more AR/VR Predictions from 2010 – Predicting the Future isn’t Easy
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 …
If you’re still on the fence whether mobile VR can meet the standards of high-end tethered HMDs, just stop it. It’s time to come down. Vertical Robot’s port of Red Matter on Oculus Quest is a …
Read more Red Matter on Oculus Quest: Stunning Visuals Set a New Standard
This week we turn to the West Coast to check out the VR highlights at GDC 2019. The massive Game Developers Conference runs March 18-22 in San Francisco. While it covers far more than virtual reality, …
The Cybershoes VR peripheral is an intriguing virtual reality enhancement at CES 2019. A device you strap on your shoes (one size fits all) and off you go. At least, virtually. You can walk, run, jump – …
Read more Cybershoes VR: stepping into virtual reality at CES 2019
It’s that time of the year again and there are great holiday VR sales for games, experiences, and headsets this week. Here is a quick overview of the best sales for the week. That there are …
Shareable VR? We’ve been waiting for something like Viewr to come along. It’s designed to solve the isolation that we have in our current VR experiences. You know how it is. One person goes through an immersive …
The announcement of iOS12 brought significant enhancements to Apple’s AR initiative. There were new iPhones but no major surprises at the September 12th event (you weren’t expecting AR Glasses this year, were you?), but everything points …
Read more Apple AR improves with games and object recognition
We’ve always been of the mind that Virtual Reality needs far more than the gaming market to survive. But the new VR game Stormland might just help kickstart the XR revolution. As Oculus VP of content, Jason Rubin …
Read more New VR Game Stormland – it’s time to save your robot
Theater VR is a fascinating multi-player platform that lets you tap into your inner actor. If VR makes you the character in a scene, then Theater VR turns you into a character in a virtual play. …
Read more Theater VR lets you play Hamlet in Virtual Reality
We were excited to hear that the groundbreaking VR tech and entertainment company Within hired noted game developer, Dave Cowling, as their new VP of Engineering. The move sparked interest among VR content developers and got us thinking about …
Read more An Interview with Dave Cowling at Within: From Games to Compelling Stories in VR