Dacuda, a 3D scanning and room-scale virtual reality company is partnering with brain technology company MindMaze on a new headset that will offer positional tracing and improve social interactions in virtual environments. MORE
The paper discusses using EMS sparingly, playing on the user’s keen sense for plausibility while in a physical (and not virtual) environment. MORE
actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! Everything started some time ago, when Mister president Alvin Wang Graylin predicted that someone would have stayed 30 days inside virtual reality. MORE
As more children start using virtual reality, it will be critical for parents and teachers to understand the effect it can have. This is what a new report Virtual Reality 101: What You Need to Know About Kids and VR is hoping to contribute towards. MORE
SoundStage attempts to capture the feel of those epic music machines then take it to the next level with tools only possible in a virtual environment. Available 7/7 on Steam Early Access: [link] SoundStage is a virtual reality music sandbox built specifically for room-scale VR. MORE
We were virtually in the same room, together. I don’t think that’s much to ask for, and if Oculus Go or any type of virtual environment like AltspaceVR or Rec Room can bring us together, I’m all for it. The inexpensive VR headset is the latest way to help connect with loved ones. MORE
In the film Tom Cruise’s character John Anderton wears a glove to interact with a massive augmented reality environment. Playstation VR Virtual Reality Virtual Reality NewsMany people would love to be Tom Cruise. MORE
Engage, a free multi-user virtual reality social platform that allows educators to create and share virtual environments and take students on virtual field trips is now available in preview edition and will launch early next... News VR & AR Engage VR HTC Vive MORE
Today, Oculus was granted a patent for a new method of moving around in a virtual environment that is more “natural and intuitive” to the user than teleporting – which has been an industry standard until now. MORE
Training autonomous drones to fly around complex indoor environments inevitably means crashes, not to mention a constant cycle of repair and replacement. News VR Research drone virtual reality drones drones in vr flight goggles ieee MIT mit virtual reality mit vr MORE
For starters, it’s not all about just Virtual Reality, or Augmented Reality for that matter. Immersive technologies can help close the talent gap, as almost any skill can be improved by virtual instruction. Will Virtual Environments Replace the Classroom? MORE
Magic Lab, a division within Sony dedicated to researching future advancements in the field of entertainment, has understandably been somewhat pre-occupied with the conundrums surrounding virtual reality. MORE
One of the biggest problems that all virtual reality (VR) developers currently face is movement within virtual reality and the potential of motion sickness. VR players cannot even walk normally through the gaming environment – they start vomiting (in a literal sense). MORE
WarDucks, the Irish based Virtual Reality studio have announced the launch of their next title, RollerCoaster Legends. Many of the rollercoasters available are not focused on your virtual environment and are simply a badly built replica of what is available in real life. MORE
The hand-held devices help bring your real hands into virtual environments by allowing you to make gestures and finger movements, providing you with an even greater sense of immersion. Best Buy is rolling out Touch controller demos in-store. MORE
VR remote collaboration company Mimesys has dreamt up an experiment which envisions mobile AR as a portal into remote virtual environments, allowing for quick spatial collaboration on-the-go, without putting on a VR headset. MORE
Bigscreen , the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets. MORE
According to a recent entry on the Google Developers Blog , the company has begun experimenting with advertising formats suitable for placement inside of virtual reality experiences. MORE
actually come together to create realistic-looking virtual environments? Specifically, why do virtual environment in VR look more “real” compared to when viewed via other media, for example panoramic video? MORE
Social VR app Bigscreen is teaming up with Paramount Pictures to debut a new virtual cinema inside of Bigscreen. Bigscreen is a social VR app which lets users connect with friends in a virtual environment where everyone can use and share what’s on their own computer screen. MORE
This research is very interesting since it seems to confirm that for kids of 7+ years old, virtual reality is a safe technology , at least for their eyes (remember to not let them play Gorn!). A mouse after having played a virtual reality game. MORE
Now you have the power to interact with the virtual environment in a more intuitive way, instead of just tapping the side of your headset with your index finger. More than 20 controller titles launching on day one. MORE
The sheer drop is horrendously realistic, specially given the fact you’ve been looking at the real thing out the windows before entering that virtual environment. Exploring Virtual Reality in Dubai [link] w/ @alicebonasio pic.twitter.com/aMILMsUFtL. MORE
This treatment enhances traditional cognitive behavioral therapy with the use of a virtual environment using the cost-free NeuroVR platform. Hardware Virtual Reality Virtual Reality News VR News MORE
Scaled to mimic a child’s giant toy racing track, you can play 12 track across three environments; Tropical, Fire and Ice and Outer Space. Tiny Trax (2017) , the tiny slot car racing game, is now out for PlayStation VR. MORE
To understand the issue with geometric distortion, we briefly need to recap what VR is supposed to do: create a virtual environment that looks real, in some meaning of that word, to the viewer. MORE
The HTC VIVE (yes, they now capitalize all the letters in VIVE) is getting itself in front of millions of new online shoppers perusing the virtual aisles of Amazon. Exposing this $800 VR platform to millions of new buyers in North America. MORE
Getting that directional audio to interact in realistic ways with the virtual environment itself is the next challenge, and getting it right came make VR spaces feel far more real. MORE
VRChat , a social VR experience supporting major PC VR headsets via Steam , is celebrating New Year’s Eve virtually in every timezone, every hour, on the hour. You can use this link to join the virtual location , with the app installed. MORE
Experience art by touch them in virtual reality. Gloveone is a haptic feedback glove that uses 10 strategically placed sensors within the wearable that vibrates at different frequencies to create the sensation of touch in a virtual environment. MORE
As the song progresses, it’s this black background that we see shift to a variety of animated environments, all created entirely using VR tools Tilt Brush and Blocks. Bittman created all the environments for the VR experience except for Corgan and his piano with the Google VR tools. MORE
At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck. MORE
Rather than recording or generating sounds that are then simulated within a virtual environment, Dr. Ming and her students are pioneering methods for “coupling sound synthesis with sound propagation to automatically generate realistic aural content for virtual environments.” MORE
The social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR is doubling down on the social aspect, with interface changes designed to make it easier for people to get together. Previously, AltspaceVR — like many virtual environments —... News VR & AR AltspaceVR MORE
He explained that he just wants to inspire and spark innovation of virtual environments. “I I want everything to become transparent, be more virtual,” Falmer said. MORE
Its key innovation is the ‘Fluid Locomotion’ system, which allows players to ‘run’ and ‘leap’ through virtual environments at high-speed while minimising the risk of nausea. MORE
Researchers at MIT are using VR to train autonomous drones in safer, less expensive environments. ” “The moment you want to do high-throughput computing and go fast, even the slightest changes you make to its environment will cause the drone to crash,” Karaman continues. MORE
That’s exactly why Children’s Hospital Los Angeles teamed up with Oculus and other VR companies to bring low-cost emergency care training via virtual reality technology. The next generation of professional healthcare training has arrived. The healthcare sector has seen better days. MORE
You can now watch your favorite Netflix shows in virtual reality. Netflix just launched their brand new ‘Netflix VR’ app in the Play Store, letting you sit in a virtual environment and watch all the content your heart desires on a giant living room screen. MORE
This would give teachers super-powers they could not dream of leveraging in normal classroom environment. In other words, the amount of engagement that a teacher’s avatar had with its virtual students had demonstrable impact on their engagement – and in their learning. MORE
Saltash District Brownies and Guides earn the “first-ever” VR technology badge after helping design virtual environments for hospitalized children. “We’ve been using some of the ideas from the girls to inspire this virtual reality garden.” MORE
Academic VR researchers have shown that “people typically underestimate egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments,” sometimes up to 20%. The post Distance Underestimation in Virtual Environments appeared first on Road to VR. MORE
Whole experiences are built around immersing the eyes in headsets to explore virtual environments. The Canetroller will then vibrate when it hits a virtual object and can also detect changes in environment texture. MORE
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Academic VR researchers have shown that “people typically underestimate egocentric distances in immersive virtual environments,” sometimes up to 20%. The post Distance Underestimation in Virtual Environments appeared first on Road to VR.
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VR remote collaboration company Mimesys has dreamt up an experiment which envisions mobile AR as a portal into remote virtual environments, allowing for quick spatial collaboration on-the-go, without putting on a VR headset.
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As more children start using virtual reality, it will be critical for parents and teachers to understand the effect it can have. This is what a new report Virtual Reality 101: What You Need to Know About Kids and VR is hoping to contribute towards.
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This would give teachers super-powers they could not dream of leveraging in normal classroom environment. In other words, the amount of engagement that a teacher’s avatar had with its virtual students had demonstrable impact on their engagement – and in their learning.
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At SIGGRAPH 2017, NVIDIA was showing off their Isaac Robot that had been trained to play dominos within a virtual world environment of NVIDIA’s Project Holodeck.
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DECEMBER 31, 2017
VRChat , a social VR experience supporting major PC VR headsets via Steam , is celebrating New Year’s Eve virtually in every timezone, every hour, on the hour. You can use this link to join the virtual location , with the app installed.
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JULY 6, 2016
SoundStage attempts to capture the feel of those epic music machines then take it to the next level with tools only possible in a virtual environment. Available 7/7 on Steam Early Access: [link] SoundStage is a virtual reality music sandbox built specifically for room-scale VR.
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Experience art by touch them in virtual reality. Gloveone is a haptic feedback glove that uses 10 strategically placed sensors within the wearable that vibrates at different frequencies to create the sensation of touch in a virtual environment.
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WarDucks, the Irish based Virtual Reality studio have announced the launch of their next title, RollerCoaster Legends. Many of the rollercoasters available are not focused on your virtual environment and are simply a badly built replica of what is available in real life.
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The social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR is doubling down on the social aspect, with interface changes designed to make it easier for people to get together. Previously, AltspaceVR — like many virtual environments —... News VR & AR AltspaceVR
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Today, Oculus was granted a patent for a new method of moving around in a virtual environment that is more “natural and intuitive” to the user than teleporting – which has been an industry standard until now.
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actually come together to create realistic-looking virtual environments? Specifically, why do virtual environment in VR look more “real” compared to when viewed via other media, for example panoramic video?
VRScout
MAY 31, 2018
Saltash District Brownies and Guides earn the “first-ever” VR technology badge after helping design virtual environments for hospitalized children. “We’ve been using some of the ideas from the girls to inspire this virtual reality garden.”
Road to VR
MAY 8, 2017
Getting that directional audio to interact in realistic ways with the virtual environment itself is the next challenge, and getting it right came make VR spaces feel far more real.
Road to VR
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Magic Lab, a division within Sony dedicated to researching future advancements in the field of entertainment, has understandably been somewhat pre-occupied with the conundrums surrounding virtual reality.
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Dacuda, a 3D scanning and room-scale virtual reality company is partnering with brain technology company MindMaze on a new headset that will offer positional tracing and improve social interactions in virtual environments.
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The HTC VIVE (yes, they now capitalize all the letters in VIVE) is getting itself in front of millions of new online shoppers perusing the virtual aisles of Amazon. Exposing this $800 VR platform to millions of new buyers in North America.
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Rather than recording or generating sounds that are then simulated within a virtual environment, Dr. Ming and her students are pioneering methods for “coupling sound synthesis with sound propagation to automatically generate realistic aural content for virtual environments.”
Road to VR
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Social VR app Bigscreen is teaming up with Paramount Pictures to debut a new virtual cinema inside of Bigscreen. Bigscreen is a social VR app which lets users connect with friends in a virtual environment where everyone can use and share what’s on their own computer screen.
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He explained that he just wants to inspire and spark innovation of virtual environments. “I I want everything to become transparent, be more virtual,” Falmer said.
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The hand-held devices help bring your real hands into virtual environments by allowing you to make gestures and finger movements, providing you with an even greater sense of immersion. Best Buy is rolling out Touch controller demos in-store.
Road to VR
JULY 25, 2017
Scaled to mimic a child’s giant toy racing track, you can play 12 track across three environments; Tropical, Fire and Ice and Outer Space. Tiny Trax (2017) , the tiny slot car racing game, is now out for PlayStation VR.
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Now you have the power to interact with the virtual environment in a more intuitive way, instead of just tapping the side of your headset with your index finger. More than 20 controller titles launching on day one.
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You can now watch your favorite Netflix shows in virtual reality. Netflix just launched their brand new ‘Netflix VR’ app in the Play Store, letting you sit in a virtual environment and watch all the content your heart desires on a giant living room screen.
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Bigscreen , the social VR app which lets users connect in a virtual environment while retaining the ability to use (and share) their own PC desktop content, now supports Microsoft’s ‘Windows Mixed Reality’ VR headsets.
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MAY 21, 2018
Training autonomous drones to fly around complex indoor environments inevitably means crashes, not to mention a constant cycle of repair and replacement. News VR Research drone virtual reality drones drones in vr flight goggles ieee MIT mit virtual reality mit vr
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FEBRUARY 29, 2016
In the film Tom Cruise’s character John Anderton wears a glove to interact with a massive augmented reality environment. Playstation VR Virtual Reality Virtual Reality NewsMany people would love to be Tom Cruise.
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APRIL 16, 2018
The paper discusses using EMS sparingly, playing on the user’s keen sense for plausibility while in a physical (and not virtual) environment.
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APRIL 12, 2018
actually, he was in my city (Turin, Italy) because here there is an epic guy that is living 30 days inside virtual reality! Everything started some time ago, when Mister president Alvin Wang Graylin predicted that someone would have stayed 30 days inside virtual reality.
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MAY 23, 2018
Researchers at MIT are using VR to train autonomous drones in safer, less expensive environments. ” “The moment you want to do high-throughput computing and go fast, even the slightest changes you make to its environment will cause the drone to crash,” Karaman continues.
VRScout
NOVEMBER 6, 2017
As the song progresses, it’s this black background that we see shift to a variety of animated environments, all created entirely using VR tools Tilt Brush and Blocks. Bittman created all the environments for the VR experience except for Corgan and his piano with the Google VR tools.
Doc-Ok
SEPTEMBER 24, 2017
To understand the issue with geometric distortion, we briefly need to recap what VR is supposed to do: create a virtual environment that looks real, in some meaning of that word, to the viewer.
Road to VR
JUNE 29, 2017
According to a recent entry on the Google Developers Blog , the company has begun experimenting with advertising formats suitable for placement inside of virtual reality experiences.
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JULY 1, 2016
One of the biggest problems that all virtual reality (VR) developers currently face is movement within virtual reality and the potential of motion sickness. VR players cannot even walk normally through the gaming environment – they start vomiting (in a literal sense).
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 14, 2018
This research is very interesting since it seems to confirm that for kids of 7+ years old, virtual reality is a safe technology , at least for their eyes (remember to not let them play Gorn!). A mouse after having played a virtual reality game.
Road to VR
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Its key innovation is the ‘Fluid Locomotion’ system, which allows players to ‘run’ and ‘leap’ through virtual environments at high-speed while minimising the risk of nausea.
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We were virtually in the same room, together. I don’t think that’s much to ask for, and if Oculus Go or any type of virtual environment like AltspaceVR or Rec Room can bring us together, I’m all for it. The inexpensive VR headset is the latest way to help connect with loved ones.
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