The Future Media Lab from NYU Engineering profiled their live VR performance of Hamlet during this session and demonstrated it in the nearby demo area. This may be the first demonstration of this kind. The idea is to create a virtual set for the performance of Hamlet. The user at the Exploring Future Reality workshop … Read more

Fove had a demo and a presentation at the Exploring Future Reality workshop where they showed their eyetracking technology. This is based upon six IR emitters and two sensors and is integrated into their own VR headset. One drawback – you can’t wear your glasses so the images I saw were all a bit out … Read more

Winslow Burkeson of the Rory Meyers College of Nursing at NYU described what he called “experiential supercomputing”. He is basically trying to build a medical holodeck with funding from the National Science Foundation. It will apparently combine motion capture, interaction gloves and a physical space to roam within, presumably while wearing some sort of HMD. … Read more

Christian Egeler noted that Verizon is more than just a wireless cellular service provider. They own AOL, The Huffington Post, Hearst Publishing, Engadget, TechCrunch and more, offering services in big data, security, advertising, IOT and CDN. They now see themselves as the bridge between content, advertising, streaming, retail and the network. In VR, they want … Read more

This was a one day event hosted in Manhattan that featured a number of panel discussions, AR/VR exhibits and a series of five minute technology pitches. It was quite a good event and cast a light on the many AR/VR activities underway in the New York area – much more than I was aware of. … Read more