Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
Can you really go wrong when you use Google’s Tilt Brush – one of our favorite Virtual Reality tools – to render the characters in Star Wars? Here’s a fascinating example of six artists doing a collaborative VR …
Read more Six artists collaborate to do a VR painting of Star Wars with Tilt Brush
You won’t have to wait much longer before you can step into the Star Wars AR experience. The new $199 Lenovo Mirage AR headset is already available for pre-order and will hit the stores in early November. The …
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Back in a rainy NYC after the Campus Technology conference in Chicago and it seems to be raining new AR headsets this summer. Cardboard-like DIY kits are appearing, there’s news on the Disney-Star Wars front, and a fascinating HMD …
Read more New AR Headsets Coming: From DIY Kits to Smartphone HMDs
If you haven’t seen any of Samsung’s VR rides you should. In fact, get on one as soon as you can. They turn up at conferences (CES 2017 and elsewhere) and at Samsung 837, Samsung’s pioneering …
A new partnership between Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB and Magic Leap will open new frontiers for entertainment, gaming and education. Both companies have worked with partners before, but as Wired notes, this is different: But this collaboration isn’t …
Read more Magic Leap and ILMxLab Partner to Create Star Wars in Mixed Reality
VR games were the hot topic at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco this week. With the upcoming HTC Vive launch on April 5th and a two-day Virtual Reality Developers event at GDC it’s …
You haven’t experienced the Death Star in Star Wars until you’ve seen it in VR. The original Death Star in the first movie in the series (1977) was born at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) …
Imagine walking up to a character in a movie and have a conversation with them. No longer a fantasy, the Sundance Virtual Reality project by Lucasfilm is making this a reality for Star Wars fans. It’s …
Read more Sundance Virtual Reality: Lucasflim Holo-Cinema is like Real-Life Star Wars
Here’s a glimpse into the Star Wars Virtual Reality lab at the Industrial Light and Magic studio. This isn’t your Oculus Rift VR, but the future of entertainment and media. Things are starting to look and …