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Artist Behind Famous Obama “Hope” Poster Launches VR/AR Exhibit

VRScout

Shepard Fairey’s largest ever solo exhibit preserved in VR/AR using volumetric photogrammetry. Last year, street artist Shepard Fairey, best known as the founder of OBEY clothing and the creator of the prolific “Hope” image featuring former President Barack Obama, launched “DAMAGED,” a wildly popular, limited run art exhibit in Los Angeles.

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Fans Get A VR Tour Of LA Stadium Ahead Of Super Bowl LIII

VRScout

Fans get a closer look at the future home of the Los Angeles Rams. This Sunday the Los Angeles Rams take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. United Way, Futurus, and Georgia University also teamed up to provide their own Unity-built experience during the Fan Expo.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

Road to VR

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. VR/AR expert and futurist Charlie Fink. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. A special announcement from Ricoh.

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Ceraadi Teams Up With AmazeVR for a Fall Virtual Reality Concert

ARPost

COVID-19 has forced the cancellation of live shows for the near future, but that doesn’t mean concerts are going extinct. New technologies like virtual reality can help us revel in new experiences without fear of catching the virus. Moreover, virtual reality headsets are cheaper than they were five years ago.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

Although we are undeniably in the early adoption stages, the latest numbers from the International Data Corp. project worldwide VR/AR industry revenues to be $162B by 2020. Investors are certainly chasing after that future revenue. In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B HTC FUNDS STEEL WOOL, SOLO.

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A brief history of VR and AR

TechCrunch VR

By the time Howard Rheingold’s “Virtual Reality” was published in 1991, the Sensorama was already a “slowly deteriorating” relic stashed away in a cabana next the pool at its inventor’s West Los Angeles home. For decades, the technology has felt ahead of its time, beginning with Sensorama in 1962.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.01.04): New Year’s Eve parties go virtual, Tundra to offer a Vive Tracker competitor, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This is the first newsletter of the new year, and I hope it will just be the beginning of a wonderful year in AR and VR for all of you! One of the smartest ideas ever had by HTC has been the invention of the Vive Tracker: a little puck that you can attach to an object so that to track it inside virtual reality. Welcome 2021!