Virtual Reality – Page 28

Facebook Adds Subscriptions to Oculus – Google Developing Waveguides

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Protocol blog reported that a plan to enable in-app subscription billing to the Oculus platform is a first move to allow the Oculus platform for the Quest VR headsets to …

Tags:Augmented Reality| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Apple Headset May Have 15 Cameras

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Phone Arena reported that Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes that Apple will use an under-display Face ID sensor in 2023, which will eliminate the ‘notch’ in Apple’s display. He has also …

Tags:Apple| Cameras| iPhone| Smartphones| Virtual Reality

Epic Games, developer of 3D engine Unreal, raised $1 Billion

by Bob Raikes

What They Say VentureBeat reports that Epic Games has raised $1 billion to help fund its development of a ‘metaverse’ and the round values the company at $28.7 billion. Among the investors was Sony …

Tags:3D (Three Dimensions)| Augmented Reality| Investment| The Metaverse| Virtual Reality

Oculus to Update Quest 2 Apps to 120Hz

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Oculus published a blog post saying that it would roll out new v28 software for Quest headsets that would enable 120Hz support on the Quest 2 headset and allowing the use …

Tags:Oculus Rift| Variable Frame Rate (VRR)| Virtual Reality

Varjo Achieves Full Compliance with OpenXR 1.0 Standard to Merge Virtual and Physical Worlds Like Never Before

by Artem Alekseenko

Varjo, the leader in professional-grade VR/XR devices, is now fully compatible with the OpenXR 1.0 specification. OpenXR is an open, royalty-free standard that provides an API for virtual reality and augmented reality content. Developed …

Tags:Augmented Reality| Virtual Reality

CReal showed off its light-field display

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Real released a video that showed its latest ‘light field’ VR display optics system that shows how different objects at various distances can be rendered in focus at the centre of …

Tags:Cameras| Light Field Displays| Virtual Reality

Spring Brings New Headsets

by Bob Raikes

What They Say There seems to be a bit of acceleration in the arrival of new AR & VR hardware. HP is now taking orders for the Omnicept VR Headset at $1,249 and intended …

Tags:Augmented Reality| HP Inc| Mixed Reality| Virtual Reality

Hologate Sees Return of LBE Visitors

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Hologate VR, based in Germany and a developer of LBE VR, said that its number of users has now got back to 90K per week, which is the level of early …

Tags:Covid-19| Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Virtual Reality

Sandbox VR to Re-open in Las Vegas

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Sandbox VR, the location-based VR company has now emerged from Chapter 11 (What Bob Saw on the Net 17 08 2020). The firm is confident that as the US returns to …

Tags:Location-based Entertainment (LBE)| Reorganisation & Restructuring| USA| Virtual Reality

AR/VR Displays Will Take Center Stage at the SID/DSCC Business Conference

by Artem Alekseenko

DSCC has announced the speaker lineup for the Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) session at the SID/DSCC Business Conference. The session will feature two leading analysts and four CEOs of innovative companies in the …

Tags:Augmented Reality| SID Society| Virtual Displays| Virtual Reality

Through the Looking Glass in VR: Empathy for the Future You

by Len Scrogan

Virtual Reality has long been considered a springboard for empathy. In his TED talk, Chris Milk refers to virtual reality as an “ultimate empathy machine”. Fernanda Herrera, a Stanford University researcher, suggests that “VR …

Tags:Education| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality

Survey Says: VR Moving Out in Front

by Len Scrogan

With all the noticeable clamor these days for virtual reality, I felt it was the right opportunity to highlight some of the findings of a recent survey on VR’s impact on education. Designed with …

Tags:Education| Virtual Reality