On this podcast, we talk about: The new Oculus Quest headset and whether it’s a big leap for virtual reality. Why you should wait for the iPhone XR. NASA turning 60, and how it’s reinventing itself. The 5G revolution. The 3:59 gives you bite-size news and analysis about the top stories of the day, brought …
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I’ve gone on a lot of adventures in virtual reality, from staring down a Tyrannosaurus rex to scuba diving a shipwreck with a blue whale to sculpting neon colored statues in the air with a magic paint brush. But by far the most compelling experiences have been games, while piloting a spaceship in an epic dogfight or holding my ground …
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A year ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stood on a stage and said he wants to get 1 billion people to try virtual reality. This year, he said he’s not even 1 percent there. “We have a saying at Facebook that the journey is 1 percent finished, and in this case not even quite,” he said at his company’s VR …
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Standalone VR is about to ramp up in a big way. Mark Zuckerberg, at the Oculus Connect keynote, announced on Wednesday that the Oculus Quest next-gen headset is coming next spring, for the aggressive price of $399. The headset, previously demoed as Project Santa Cruz, is a mobile device that adds full-room tracking and PC-like motion controls. The Oculus Quest …
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The fifth Oculus Connect developer conference is underway in San Jose, California this week. Besides being a place for VR developers to meet up and discuss the future of immersive technologies, Facebook — the owner of Oculus — laid out its next steps for where VR (and AR) will head. And yes, that includes new hardware: the $399 wireless Oculus …
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Virtual reality medical company VRHealth said Wednesday it’s working with Oculus to deliver its new health and wellness services on the Oculus Go. Using the headset and VRHealth’s apps, people can do physical and cognitive exercises at home using VR. The company announced the collaboration at Oculus Connect in San Jose. VRHealth’s wellness apps, which can be purchased on the company’s …
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Chika Umeadi could be the poster child for what’s wrong with virtual reality today. At a glance, he seems like the perfect candidate to buy a VR headset. He’s an app developer and techie. He loves video games. He’s 30, unmarried and says he has the means to splurge when he wants to. Yet even though the Chicagoan has tried …
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Google sells an awesomely inexpensive way to turn your phone into a competent VR headset, but Daydream has had a couple minor issues from the very beginning: There aren’t enough awesome apps and games to compete with its rivals Gear VR and Oculus Go Like its rivals, the simplistic 3-degrees-of-freedom sensors don’t let you reach out and touch things in …
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Apple. Google. Amazon. Microsoft. Samsung. Huawei. Razer. Nokia. Facebook. The world’s tech companies are announcing so many gadgets we don’t know where to start. We’ll be bringing you back-to-back-to-back coverage this fall — and here’s our guide to when and where it’s all going down. Apple is asking us to gather round for its latest event. Apple (Sept. 12) This …
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Mozilla released on Tuesday Firefox Reality 1.0, the first version of its web browser geared for three virtual-reality headsets, the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Google Daydream. The new browser uses voice control to sidestep the difficulty of typing while wearing a device that replaces your view of the real world, including your keyboard, with immersive computer-generated scenery. At best, …
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