XR Today - Virtual Reality
OCTOBER 31, 2022
Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.
Road to VR
JUNE 29, 2016
It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. When we finally did get our hands on it, we were impressed.
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Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
In 1997, a bio engineering professor at the University of Utah named Dr. Richard Norman developed the ‘Utah Array’, an implant with 256 electrodes designed to rigidly attach to the brain. BCI might seem like new-fangled tech, but research has been in the works for longer than you might expect.
XR Today - Mixed Reality tag
DECEMBER 1, 2022
The Web3 project will offer a world-first of phygital products for use in the real and virtual world for Bored Ape and Mutant Ape holders. The Draper, Utah-based firm has built one of the world’s largest 3D platforms for millions of global Web3 artists. PHOTO: Timex/ Yuga Labs.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
JULY 31, 2017
When I tried the latest installation of The VOID earlier this year in Utah I encountered what I think is likely the pinnacle of immersion possible in 2017, with one major limit. If you go through the Ghostbusters virtual world with other people their bodies might not be represented in the correct positions.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
You would enjoy catching ghosts with three other players moving freely around the virtual world alongside you. What makes the experience so immersive is that it is a completely untethered multiplayer walk-around experience complemented by real-world effects, like heat or wind.
The Ghost Howls
JULY 18, 2019
To let you understand how Neuralink is disruptive, I can tell you that the Utah Array, one of the most famous current invasive BCI device, can read up to 128 electrode channels. There’s no way that people will wear sensors all over the body to simulate in a realistic way all the sensations of a virtual world.
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