Not counting “Hamilton,” Broadway’s hottest musical is “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812,” an “immersive” show for which the Imperial Theatre has been remodeled
China’s e-commerce site Alibaba has been making heavy investments in augmented and mixed reality startups. In February of this year, they led a $793 million round of Series C financing of Magic Leap. And
IMAGE: THIS IMAGE FROM THE SHARK PUNCH GAME SHOWS THE SHARK IN THE WATER ATTACKING THE USER, AS THE USER FENDS IT OFF. John Quarles,
Viceland and Samsung are bringing viewers to the center of the Syrian war with a virtual reality documentary that shows what it’s like to rescue people from
If you’re like me – and statistics show you probably are – you could stand to shed a few pounds. And chances are if you are trying
Ask Vern Shurtz what he does for a living and he’ll say something like “We do augmented and virtual reality.” But the work of Shurtz and John
At long last, the Google and Lenovo partnership has produced the Lenovo Phab 2, a 6.5-inch display phablet (i.e. phone/tablet) that offers the first device with
, McCauley emphasized that the video game business has to cater to a demographic that’s large enough to sustain it. “If your demographic is older
Keio University students wear virtual reality headsets to experience what it is like to have dementia at an event in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, on Oct.
The latest— and more affordable —high-profile entrant into the emerging virtual reality space, PlayStation VR, is off to a successful start, suggesting consumers are more interested
, Immersive Toilet Paper is a mod for Fallout 4 by jet4571 and Elianora which takes the game’s existing toilet paper, which is facing the incorrect way,
Fit in and win the VR game: If you’re a native English speaker, just graduated, and based in Paris, here’s your chance to join VRrOOm and spread the Voice
aming has brought VR to the masses. Sony’s PlayStation VR requires a PlayStation 4 to function, Oculus Rift got its start as a game accessory,
Nicolas Cage has faced off against an ungodly assortment of foes on the silver screen over the years. He’s taken on airborne criminals, rogue marines, bees
It’s the holiday shopping season, and various consumer electronics prognosticators have proclaimed that 2016 will be the year that virtual reality flies off the shelves
Let’s be honest, the best use for VR headsets right now is playing games. Watching a movie with a headset strapped to your face isn’t all that
Virtual Reality is the future. I strongly believe that so when I was asked if I wanted to work on social VR app with other
Virtual reality makes for an amazing demo. But good demos don’t equal good purchases. With largely high prices and no real killer app, it’s still
The “Sharing is Caring” video from WankzVR. Virtual reality pornography is — in a technological sense — a solved problem. Despite the lack of
One of the great promises of virtual reality is that we will be able to craft lives that play out our wildest fantasies, all with
The virtual reality (VR) market is still in its early stages, but its size is expected to reach $70 billion by 2020, according to TrendForce.
Filmmakers, video game designers and journalists are already incorporating virtual reality into their work, but another somewhat surprising group of professionals is also starting to
So far the focus in the new wave of headset-based virtual reality content seems to be video games, simulations, 360-degree videos and the like, but
Credit: Google On Thanksgiving, families tried to ignore the elephant in the parlor: the presidential election. Thousands of how-to listicles were published about how a
Two big data PhD research projects have received an investment boost from Oracle, the company said. The studies will look at new ways of
Take a moment to let this sink in: now that VR is real, we’ve never had a more perfect time to bring diversity into popular
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