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Google now lets you explore U.S. National Parks via 360-degree virtual tours

by Milos Pavlovic

Google has created 360 degree ‘virtual tours’ of five US National Parks in Alaska, Hawaii, New Mexico, Utah and Florida. Rangers guide viewers through the parks and are available on iOS and Android devices …

Uncorporeal Claims It Can Create 3D VR Scenes from Your Photos

by Milos Pavlovic

Uncorporeal is to launch “Holographic Photography Technology” which according to the company will allow smartphones users to create 360 VR viewable scenes with 3D parallax from photos. According Uncorporeal, their solution allows for users …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| 3D| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Audi Customer ‘Driving’ in the Showroom

by Isaac Oburu

myAudi Sphere, a virtual reality application from Audi has been incorporated in the recently reopened Audi Forum at Munich airport which has been closed for renovations. Developed by Macom, myAudi Sphere lets customers see …

Tags:3D| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Harmonic and TNO Show UHD VR

by Tom Allen

Harmonic is to show native UltraHD VR at IBC 2016 (9th-13th September, Amsterdam; stand 1.B20), in collaboration with Dutch research institute TNO. The demonstration will use TNO’s HEVC tiling technology, which enables VR content …

Vuzix iWear Takes Leap Forward with the Addition of SteamVR to its Supported Game Ecosystem

by Isaac Oburu

Vuzix® Corporation, a leading supplier of Smart Glasses, Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets, is pleased to announce that it has completed the integration …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality| Vuzix

Haptics Will be VR’s Next Push

by Tom Allen

Dexta Robotics has shown a new version of its DexMo ‘exoskeleton glove’, which is designed to add touch feedback to VR. Like the PowerClaw, the DexMo cannot track hand movements (yet – it is …

VR 4K Satellite to Launch Next June

by Isaac Oburu

Satellite Today has reported that SpaceVR has raised cash to build Overview-1; a satellite that will be launched in June 2016 on a scheduled mission ‘CRS-12 mission’. Overview-1 will have 360-degree cameras and 4K …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 33

Mursion’s Virtual Spaces

by Len Scrogan

The ISTE 2016 educational conference held in late June, with over 16,000 in attendance hailing from 76 countries, is the largest ed-tech conference held in the U.S. One of the newest and most interesting …

Tags:Education| HMDs (Head Mounted Displays)| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Oculus VR: Roomscale Tracking is ‘Not Necessary’

by Tom Allen

Jason Rubin, head of content at Oculus VR, said that ‘roomscale’ (360°) tracking (like that supported by the HTC Vive) may not be necessary for VR. Oculus has so far focused on front-facing VR …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 33

The PowerClaw Will Burn You Up

by Tom Allen

The PowerClaw is a set of haptic gloves that promise to make users feel not just touches, but wider sensations in virtual reality. Having recently launched an IndieGogo campaign, a prototype version was at …

AOC Presents Virtual Reality Headset at Gamescom

by Isaac Oburu

AOC, one of the top global brands in the display market, presents its first virtual reality head-mounted display (HMD) at gamescom in Cologne from 18-21 August 2016. Virtual reality has a history of being …

MSI Produces Slew of VR-Ready Laptops

by Tom Allen

Nvidia’s new VR-ready GTX 10-series graphics cards, for notebooks, are already seeing use in products from several companies, with MSI announcing perhaps the most comprehensive release to-date. The company is using the GPUs in …