Tag: virtual reality

November 2, 2016

Google’s Daydream View virtual reality headset will start shipping on Nov. 10 for $79. The VR headset will work with phones compatible with Daydream, including Google’s Pixel. Users can place a smartphone in the Daydream View to roam virtual worlds, […]

October 17, 2016

A sad reality of modern urban living and the corporate grind is that many of us are starved of nature in our daily lives, despite the fact that the United States alone contains around 750 million acres of forests. But […]

May 11, 2016

If you have been keeping up with virtual reality in any capacity over the past few years, you’ve almost certainly heard of the industry’s biggest players: Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR. These are the three platforms that will […]

April 27, 2016

HTC, in partnership with Valve, and Oculus, which is owned by Facebook and can also call Samsung a reliable ally, seem to be in a stalemate as they each try to take the lion’s share of early VR headset sales […]

March 10, 2016

You may be wondering what is the link between video calling and VR – and we’ll get there in a moment. Currently there is a lot of talk about the future of Virtual Reality (VR) and its preconized pivotal role […]

March 7, 2016

It seems as though the advent of any radically new technology is inevitably accompanied by a mad scramble to legislate its proper and improper uses. Whether it’s nuclear fission and the IAEA’s Convention on Nuclear Safety, or modern medicine and […]

March 2, 2016

Yesterday HTC put its Vive virtual reality headset up for pre-order after one year of prototypes and demonstrations. So how did it do? Pretty well, apparently. Shen Ye, who works on VR at HTC, says that more than 15,000 HTC […]

February 29, 2016

Almost every major tech company tasks a unit to head a search for the next vertical that said company can infiltrate and dominate. Yes, Alphabet pretty much has that down-pat, but whether it’s called an “innovation center” or a “creative […]

February 10, 2016

Virtual reality has been a product of developers and enthusiasts for some time. But as technology has advanced and prices fall, VR has moved more into the consumer spotlight. The consumer-friendly GearVR compatible with Samsung smartphones and Google’s Cardboard headset […]

November 26, 2015

While it’s no surprise that the presence of virtual reality is weaving its way into many sectors of tech, we’re still left waiting to find out how it’ll unfold when it comes to Apple. Google, Samsung, Sony, and Facebook have all shared […]

September 24, 2015

Oculus Connect 2, the VR-focused conference, is well underway, and the keynote live stream kicks off on September 24 at 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm PDT and 6:00pm BST. If you’re not in sunny Los Angeles, Oculus says you can tune in […]

September 14, 2015

Facebook Inc. is vying to bring virtual reality to your phone. The social network is working on a stand-alone video app that would support 360-degree or “spherical” videos, people familiar with the matter said. The format, typically compiled from multiple […]

July 28, 2015

If you have a recent iPhone and you’re interested in experiencing Virtual Reality, then you have pretty much everything you need to get started. The phones’ high-resolution displays, gyroscopes and motion sensors form the most important parts of a VR […]

June 12, 2015

This is it: the final consumer version of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. It’s coming Q1 2016, and it looks just like the version that leaked two days ago! We went to see Oculus’s announcement live in San Francisco. […]

February 24, 2015

In the past, Valve has been ambiguous about its virtual reality involvement and hasn’t done much publicly beyond giving awesome demos at its Steam Dev Days and releasing a SteamVR Oculus Rift-connected beta earlier this year. But now, you can […]