Virtual Reality – Page 137

DS28 Mechdyne Explains Practicalities of CAVEs

by Bob Raikes

Kurt Hoffmeister is CTO from Mechdyne which is a US AV company that has been around a long time but now around 50% of its business is in 3D and immersive technologies. 30% of …

Com Hem Takes the Living Room Virtual

by Tom Allen

Com Hem, the Nordic TV distributor, has described a new concept for testing its service in a VR environment. Com Hem Play VR shows users a virtual 360° living room, from which they can …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Nordics| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 24

DS21 VefXi Has a New Chip for Auto 3D Content Creation

by Bob Raikes

Craig Peterson is CEO of VEFXi which is working in VR and we have reported several times on the company this year, since MWC. He started by saying that there are two kinds of …

Vodafone Ventures into VR

by Tom Allen

Last year, UK mobile operator Vodafone introduced the Smart Ultra 6: a low-cost smartphone with some premium features, especially in terms of size, resolution and 4G connectivity (Vodafone Lowers Cost of Premium Features). This …

OSVR Announces HDK 2 with Dual 2160 x 1200 Display

by Norbert Hildebrand

We have reported several times about the OSVR and its open source virtual reality platform. The latest news form the OSVR is a new ‘Hacker Development Kit’, the HDK 2. This new platform includes …

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

HTC To Lead Virtual Reality Enterprise Sector With Vive Business Edition

by Isaac Oburu

HTC Corporation (“HTC”), a pioneer in innovative, smart technologies, has today announced Vive Business Edition (“Vive BE”) to capture the huge demand from industries worldwide to employ virtual reality technology in commercial applications. Available …

Tags:HTC| Virtual Reality

‘Human-Centred VR’ Increases Training Effectiveness

by Tom Allen

At ITEC 2016 Federica Pallavicini – a researcher at the Università di Milano-Bicocca – gave a presentation on the use of virtual reality in the military. Rather than training, though, Pallavicini was concentrating on …

Tags:ITEC 2016| Military & Defence| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 23

MDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 23

by Tom Allen

HP has begun to ship its Spectre x360 convertible OLED laptop (Digital Experience Has Lots to See). It is 13.3″ and weighs 50g less than the LCD model. Prices start at $1,500. Reviews of …

ODG and OTOY Join Forces to Create an Uncompromising Platform That Entertains and Augments Your World Through Light Field Rendering

by Isaac Oburu

Osterhout Design Group (ODG), maker of the world’s most advanced mobile Augmented Reality (AR) Smartglasses, including the Enterprise focused R-7, and OTOY Inc., the pioneering cloud graphics company, today announced a collaboration to combine …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SmartGlasses| Virtual Reality

BBC Moves to VR

by Tom Allen

The BBC is working on producing ‘true VR’ content, and has unveiled its first work in the space. Several of its experiments have been posted to BBC Taster (http://tinyurl.com/jxeqqex). These are differentiated from the …

Tags:Back Panel| BBC| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 23

VR used to Restore Destroyed Museum

by Tom Allen

Iraq’s Mosul Museum was invaded, and some of its artefacts destroyed, by the terrorist group Isis in 2015. However, the site can now be explored virtually, thanks to Visualise, The Economist and non-profit group …

Tags:Back Panel| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 22

Lightspeed Develops High-Quality VR Player

by Tom Allen

Lightspeed Design has built a new VR player platform called the DepthQ VR Film Experience, using its own DQVR codec. The player supports 4:4:4 encoding and CUDA real-time processing. One of the first experiences …

Tags:Media Players| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus Rift| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 22