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Samsung Launches New VR Platform Featuring Premium Content and Experiences

by Milos Pavlovic

At Unpacked 2017, Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its new VR content service in UK, SamsungVR.com and Samsung VR application. The extensive VR content library will provide consumers with a huge library of …

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Review of VR Excercising

by Bob Raikes

A journalist for Forbes.com has spent a month using VR while excercising on a fixed bike. Her conclusion? She didn’t like the sweat from the HTC Vive she used and had to get over …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Sports and Stadiums| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 14

HTC Viveport Has Over 20,000 Developers

by Alan Spencer

According to Alvin Wang Graylin, president of HTC China, HTC’s Viveport has attracted over 20,000 registrations from independent VR application developers, resulting in the launch of around 2,200 applications. Graylin also believes that the …

Tags:AR/VR| HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

Goertek Tries Laval for the First Time

by Bob Raikes

There was an area of the show that was devoted to Chinese companies. One had nobody that could speak French or English, at least when we went by, so we weren’t sure quite why …

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Laval Virtual 2017 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

3DRudder’s Motion controller. Image:Meko 3D Rudder has developed a foot pad that can be used to control movement in VR games. Tipping the board moves in the appropriate direction and the board can also …

Asustek Plans AR Development Team Spin-Off

by Alan Spencer

Commercial Times has reported that Asustek Computer has plans to spin-off its AR/VR development team to an independent start-up, Glamorfy Taiwan. Glamorfy was previously a unit of Asustek’s HMI software department, and Asustek has …

Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

VR for the Crayon Crowd

by Len Scrogan

When I first saw this technology on display in the Playgrounds Hall at SXSWedu, I knew I had to write about it. I knew our readers needed to know about it, not just because …

Tags:3D Content Creation| Education| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Practice is Behind the State of the Art in Professional VR

by Bob Raikes

Kathleen Maher is from Jon Peddie Research where she focuses on content creation and software and was the first speaker after lunch when she talked about commercial VR. She started by saying that in …

AR/MR/VR @ SXSWedu: Competing Perspectives

by Len Scrogan

With the AR/MR/VR market expected to hit $150 billion by 2020, schools, colleges and universities are now getting the hard sell on making an investment in the “next big thing.” In a well-attended SXSWedu …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Education| Large Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 13

Disney Stays Away from VR for Now

by Norbert Hildebrand

During an USC (University of Southern California) Marshall and Annenberg event in Santa Monica, CA, Bob Iger, CEO of Disney said that the firm will not be looking at installing any VR rides at …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Disney| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 24 - Issue 12

VR and AR are Everywhere You Look

by Bob Raikes

This week we seem to have lots of stories about VR and with more to come, as I was at Laval Virtual this week. We’ll have our report next week, mainly in MDM. In …

Visbit Achieves VR Technology Breakthrough; Streams 12K 360-Degree VR Video Over Wi-Fi Or LTE Using Today’s Hardware

by Isaac Oburu

Visbit, virtual reality (VR) and 360-degree video streaming company, announced today at IEEE VR Summit 2017 a technical breakthrough it had in research and development that proves streaming in 12K 360-degree VR video is …

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