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The VR Awards Announce 2022 Finalists

VRScout

VR Film of the Year. Fast Travel Games AB – Virtuoso Film Addict – Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li Hakawati Studio – Wamdah | Journey to the future Interactive Media Foundation – MYRIAD. VR Social Impact Award. VR Experience of the Year. Where we connect. | VR Experience Meta Platforms Inc.

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The Auggie Awards 2021

ARPost

Best Art or Film. The Best Art or Film award was presented by General Immersive CEO Ray Mosco and went to Peaceful Places by Gold Enterprises. The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. Best Campaign. Best Game or Toy.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.12.28): Flight Simulator VR released, a new hack lets you use Quest without Facebook, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Microsoft Flight Simulator releases VR patch. Microsoft Flight Simulator is now compatible with VR headsets : not only the HP Reverb G2 as initially teased but all the headsets that are compatible with OpenXR , so basically all the most famous devices. haptics) can affect our perception of gender. Top news of the week.

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VR & AR 2018: A Year In Review

VRScout

If 2018 is remembered for anything, it’ll be for the multiple high-quality animated VR films released throughout the year. Featuring an absolutely stellar voice cast including everyone from John Legend and Oprah Winfrey, to Constance Wu and Diego Luna, Crow: The Legend is arguably one of the most well-structured VR short films ever released.

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How does Virtual Reality Work? The Ultimate Guide

XR Today - Virtual Reality

Some solutions even use accessories to deepen the immersion, such as haptic feedback systems and spatial audio. Some simulators even use haptic feedback to give you the feel of being in a vehicle. Generally, the frame rate of a movie in a theater is only around 24 FPS, but these films aren’t intended to simulate reality.

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

Road to VR

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. Katie Kelly, Head of Engagement, AltspaceVR / Microsoft.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.09.01): HoloLens 2 may come in September, Oculus may commercialize a multiplayer LBVR solution, HP Reverb is back and much more!

The Ghost Howls

(Image by Microsoft). According to Reuters, Microsoft’s executive vice president Harry Shum took the stage at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai and said that the HoloLens 2 will be released sometime in September of this year. Venice Film Festival is featuring a rich VR section. In any case, we will see.

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