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The Benefits of Virtual Reality in Banking

ARPost

Perhaps it wanders to highly visible applications in gaming, film, art, and retail. Oculus Rift powered the virtual experience. Additionally, a leap motion 3D controller enabled them to interact with it. What comes to mind when you think of virtual reality ? That includes banking. They called it New World Banking.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.07.15): Apple kills its AR glasses, Oculus full-steam ahead on 2nd gen VR and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Oculus is working on 2nd gen VR. Mark Zuckerberg told that Oculus Quest closed the first generation of VR and so Oculus is now working on its second generation. We don’t know what Oculus will present, but we have some hints. Other relevant news. What’s next is where things really get interesting ”. More info More info.

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Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

Road to VR

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience for DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming film, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

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Sensics Releases High Resolution VR Headset Built Specially for Arcades and Theme Parks

Road to VR

As for resolution, the company maintains the screen door effect (SDE) is diminished with the headset’s dual 1440×1600@90 Hz LCD displays, a 70 percent increase in pixels over consumer devices like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. image courtesy Sensics.

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VR Bound Announces Nominees For Inaugural 2017 VR Awards

VRScout

Oculus – Rift. Leap MotionLeap Motion. Oculus – Touch. Nominees for Interactive VR Media/Film of the Year. HTC – Vive. Razer – OSVR. Sony – Playstation VR. Starbreeze – StarVR. Nominees for Mobile Headset of the Year. Merge VR – Goggles.

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Social Dynamics in AltSpaceVR After the Consumer Launch of VR

Road to VR

AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. We also talk about some of the social dynamics that occur when they mix together the full range of interaction fidelity between hand-tracked Vive, Leap Motion hands in the Rift, and just the head rotation of the Gear VR.

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HTC Vive announces 6 DOF controllers for Vive Focus and teases hand tracking for Vive Pro

The Ghost Howls

That’s a bit disappointing and considering that in some months Oculus will release the Quest , that has full 6 DOF support, HTC had necessarily to do something. The film recreates the seven miracles performed by Jesus Christ in virtual reality with unique 6DoF scenes of where the audience can walk into the movie scene with the actors.