The best VR headsets for 2023
by Devindra Hardawar If you’ve been holding out for VR hardware to mature, you chose wisely. Headsets have come a long way since the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive six …
Read MoreAR Technology Tees Off At the PGA Tour
Immersive technology invades professional golf. COVID-19 has affected seemingly everyone over the past two and half years, from small families to multinational conglomerates. Very few have remained immune to the incomprehensible damage caused …
Read MoreFacebook’s Oculus Quest VR Headset Shipments Delayed As Industry Grapples With Coronavirus Complications, by Matt Perez
Topline: From virtual reality headsets to major industry events, the coronavirus continues to influence decisions in the gaming industry. Avoiding large crowds, Sony announced on Twitter today that it would miss the PAX …
Read MoreHow The Lion King visual effects team used VR to go inside Disney’s CG adventure, by Rick Marshall
Disney is no stranger to reinventing its most popular properties, and that’s exactly what the studio did with 2019’s The Lion King, a remake of the 1994 feature of the same name that …
Read MoreInsta360’s One R shape-shifts between a 360 and an action camera, by Becca Farsace
This is the Insta360 One R. Like Insta360’s prior cameras, it’s capable of shooting 360 degrees of footage. But it’s also a standard 4K action camera. For someone on the fence about taking …
Read MoreHoloLens Creator: ‘Half-Life: Alyx is the most immersive VR game I’ve ever played’
HoloLens creator Alex Kipman tried Valve’s upcoming VR title Half-Life: Alyx and shared some choice words about his experience. Microsoft and Valve have long had close ties, both geographically and historically. Valve was …
Read MoreThe Oculus Quest is getting controller-free hand tracking this week, by Cameron Faulkner
Oculus is rolling out native hand tracking to the Quest, its standalone virtual reality headset, starting this week. Previously expected to arrive sometime in 2020, hand tracking will be available as an experimental …
Read MoreCould Virtual Reality Influence Election Campaigns? by Sol Rogers
Politicians always try to adapt to new forms of media to allow them to connect to their voter-base. Consider Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chats” in the thirties, John F. Kennedy’s early mastery of …
Read MoreTaking Virtual Reality for a Test Drive, by Patricia Marx
Reality being what it is right now, doesn’t an alternative sound tempting? That’s what I was thinking the other day, in my apartment, when I adjusted the Velcro straps on my Oculus Quest, …
Read MoreIs Facebook Doubling Down on Virtual Reality?, by Keith Noonan
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) acquired virtual reality (VR) headset maker Oculus in 2014 at a price somewhere in the range of $3 billion, with hopes that VR would emerge as the next big computing …
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