There is no longer any doubt in my mind; Sony wins Round One of the VR Wars* So lets write the story of how this plays out, across the next 18-36 months: 0. Samsung […]
Mobile VR: The Final Destination
“Witness the future – A Truly Mobile VR Picnic” Written by: Greg Roberts, dSky Founder & CEO Way back in 2005, I was in the business of creating massive multiplayer augmented reality systems. My team created playspaces which […]
The Power of a VR Experience
The recent renaissance in virtual reality has centered around the hardcore gaming market. What we continue to see in terms of game production are a lot of ported titles that don’t fit well into […]
The Mass Adoption of Virtual Reality
Welcome to “The Rift” It’s a brisk Wednesday night and I’m brimming with excitement to send my roommate into “The Rift” for the first time. Questions swirl in my head, “Will he get it?” […]
Palmer Luckey Speaks On The Oculus CV1
The growth of the virtual reality community remains steadfast in 2015 as a multitude of startups and tech behemoths jump in the race to build the computing platform of the future. We’ve also seen […]
High-Fidelity VR Audio is KEY : HRTF arrives on Rift
Oculus announced today at CES the full implementation and upcoming release of high-fidelity audio for their flagship VR headset, the Crescent Bay. Simultaneously they mentioned a forthcoming VR Audio SDK to enable developers to […]
The Virtual World isn’t Real, however… it IS the Final Platform
WATCH. THIS. NOW. “The advent of consumer VR, that can invoke presence… is nothing less than a Phase Change in the relationship between Humans, Computing, and Information. In fact, in a very real sense, […]
vRoom : RealHaptics Progress Report
So I’ve pretty much completed the v1.0 re-creation of my virtual office, in VR. It started as an experiment in high-fidelity haptics, aka RealHaptics®. At this point, that purpose has utterly failed. However, as with […]
Synthesis Universe…
That is All.
There are a hella lot of VR titles on the market these days. Most are free. Some have the balls to charge (and good for them!) for early prototypes. All that said, few are […]
Zuck’s Rift Timeline :
100 million players by…
As we all wait patiently for the imminent consumer launch of the Samsung Gear VR, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (aka “Zuck”) spent some time predicting a future for recent acquisition Oculus VR during the company’s earnings call Tuesday. Zuck’s […]