article thumbnail

Mechanical Backpack Makes Jumping In VR More Fun

VRScout

” Pedro Lopes , an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of Chicago who focuses on integrating interfaces with the human body by exploring the interface paradigm that supersedes wearables, wants to make jumping in VR a more enjoyable experience. “Jump up and down and move it all around.”

Study 460
article thumbnail

Traveling Halo Fan Experience Will Feature Competitive Location-Based VR

VRScout

Available as part of the tour, Halo: Training Grounds puts visitors in the boots of a UNSC Spartan, an elite soldier enhanced by both mechanical and biological augmentations. They’ll then fight alongside two other teammates in a 3v3 combat training environment designed to hone your skills as Earth’s most badass fighting force.

Florida 293
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Become a Spartan in Halo Training Grounds’ Free-Roaming VR Multiplayer Starting This Weekend

Peter Graham

Called Halo: Outpost Discovery, the travelling live event experience will be heading to various US cities and as part of it VRstudios has created a free-roaming virtual reality (VR) multiplayer called Training Grounds. . Halo Training Grounds is an arena style competitive experience where two teams of three fight it out as Spartan drones.

article thumbnail

Spatial Beats: Apple, Magic Leap & Oculus

AR Insider

It is available in cities like Seattle, Chicago, Tokyo, London, and most recently, San Diego and Portland. Immerse , the enterprise VR training company out of the UK is expanding to the US following a year in which the company reportedly grew 300 percent. Apple Maps ‘Look Around’ Feature expands to more cities.

article thumbnail

The 2019 VR Awards Winners Recognized for Outstanding VR Tech

ARPost

This year’s 70+ person judging panel included academic professors and researchers as well as representatives from Google, HTC, HP, Deloitte, NVIDIA, Apache, and others. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. VR Education and Training.

article thumbnail

Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

Steve: By last summer — and my annual University of Iowa fraternity gathering — one of my fraternity brothers is a assistant superintendent of schools in the Chicago area, and he was a former science teacher. Do they want you to train them? These things are impossible to train for. Tell me how that came about.

article thumbnail

Dissecting Virtual Frogs with VictoryXR’s Steve Grubbs

XR for Business Podcast

Steve: By last summer — and my annual University of Iowa fraternity gathering — one of my fraternity brothers is a assistant superintendent of schools in the Chicago area, and he was a former science teacher. Do they want you to train them? These things are impossible to train for. Tell me how that came about.