Learning and Living in AR, VR, and AI
Oculus Quest hand tracking has finally arrived as promised at OC6, and we’re delighted. We had the opportunity to demo this breakthrough feature at the conference this fall. While it’s not perfect, it’s the future of …
Read more Oculus Quest Hand Tracking – A Major Breakthrough for VR
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 huge savings. You’re going to pay full price with a …
Read more Best Black Friday VR Deals – Virtual Reality at a Discount
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 …
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 …
Ready for an ultrathin layer of wearable skin? It may be precisely what we need for haptic feedback in our virtual experiences. There’s several haptic solutions coming to the market, from full-body suits to HMD attachments that …
We’ll be out in California next week for the Oculus Connect 6 conference on September 25-26. With the speculation on Facebook’s AR initiatives and the next steps for the Quest standalone HMD, it promises to be …
Scratch another immersive technology development off the list. After high hopes and promises of a ubiquitous mobile VR platform, Google Daydream is essentially over. The HMD is still available on the Google Store, but you have …
The Oculus Quest is here, promising to be the next generation of VR. We finally get a mass-market headset that’s relatively low-cost, has 6DOF functionality and doesn’t need to be tethered to an expensive computer. Despite …
Here’s the lineup for Tribeca Immersive, the VR Program at Tribeca Film Festival this spring. The Festival is a favorite of ours since we get to experience cutting-edge projects in our own backyard. It’s convenient when …
Read more An Expanding VR Program at Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest is a perfect match for virtual reality. A free-form VR painting and design tool on a standalone HMD with six degrees of freedom. Last year, Facebook hyped the concept of …
Read more A Perfect Match – Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest
We’ve written a lot on the need for better haptic feedback in VR. The Feelreal mask prototype has been around for a while but it is finally making its debut on Kickstarter on April 9th. As …
It’s been a long wait with endless rumors, but the new Valve VR headset is finally coming. 2019 is turning out to be the year of new HMDs, and we’re not close to halfway through. HP’s …
You might have overlooked the new HP Reverb VR headset last week with all the HMDs at GDC 2019, but the company just set a new standard in Windows Mixed Reality platform headsets. As Sol Rogers …