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Robot specialist Boston Dynamics offers rare look inside its workshop

Digital Trends

In a rare move, robot specialist Boston Dynamics recently allowed a film crew inside its Massachusetts workshop and even showed off a new robot.

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Boston Dynamics' Spot Is Being Tested as a Robotic Security Guard Protecting the Remains of Pompeii

GizModo VR

Serving as a robotic security guard might feel like a dystopic use of the amazing technology powering Boston Dynamics’ Spot, but the robotic dog is actually well suited to protecting a historically significant area like Pompeii , whose crumbling ruins still pose a safety hazard, especially when it comes to protecting… Read more.

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Alaska Airlines Begins Testing VR As First Class Entertainment

VRScout

The VR trial flights – which are being tested on 10 flights between Boston and Seattle, as well as Boston and San Diego – are the result of a partnership between Alaska Airlines and SkyLights, along with support from 20 th Century Fox, Warner Brothers, and EIM.

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Uh oh, the internet is thirsting over Chris Evans again

Mashable VR

It was a moment of seemingly endless internet thirst for Evans, simply for donning an (admittedly good-looking) sweater in the film Knives Out. Evans grew out a killer mustache to star in Netflix's upcoming film The Gray Man. The Boston accent, which you don't always hear in Evans, is almost sultry?

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VRX 2019 Announces Speakers from HTC Vive, Oculus, Snap & More

ARPost

The agenda will cover both enterprise and consumer XR, including AEC, automotive, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, gaming, film, TV and beyond, with the underlying aim to go beyond the hype of XR to understand what are the keys to mass adoption and apply cross-industry knowledge to boost business productivity.

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‘The Exorcist: Legion VR’ First Episodes to Launch on Rift & Vive November 22nd

Road to VR

The scariest time of the year has come and gone, and although we were expecting the first two episodes of The Exorcist: Legion VR in time for Halloween, fans of the film franchise and The Exorcist TV series probably won’t mind one bit. You arrive at the scene of a grisly crime in a small Boston parish.

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The nostalgia filled VR game-within-a-game Pixel Ripped 1989 is launching in May.

Cats and VR

Hell part of the charm in the novel and upcoming film Ready Player One is its super call back to retro gaming. And we’re looking forward to the public’s reaction next month in Boston," she concluded. Although there exists a multitude of ways to get your video game fix in today, often we reminisce over the "good ole days".

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