Tag Archives: virtual-reality

Pillars stretch up and through the screen as I play a game on the tablet sitting in my lap. It’s impossible not to think of the Nintendo 3DS. All glasses-free 3D tech makes me feel this way. The point is: Glasses-free 3D isn’t new. It’s been tried several times before, and it’s still struggling to …

Facebook’s double ambitions in virtual and augmented reality could be meeting in the middle with the Oculus Quest 2. A new developer toolkit for the Quest allows blending of passthrough cameras with VR graphics, enabling mixed reality. Mixed reality has been bubbling up on the Oculus Quest for a while: In addition to the headset’s way of scanning the world …

Netflix has made its most public display of interest in expanding into virtual reality and gaming, after years of batting away questions about pursuing VR and even more years of baby steps toward video games. On Thursday, Netflix announced a new deal with Shonda Rhimes, a powerhouse television producer whose Bridgerton exploded on Netflix to become what the company says is its most-watched …

This summer, a lot of people are going to actual places in the real world. I’ve visited one really memorable place in the virtual world: the Museum of Other Realities, an app available on SteamVR that’s hosting a joint showcase of immersive art and storytelling through July 17. The XR3 Festival, a joint production between Cannes XR, Tribeca, and the …

For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO and CDC websites. Steve Zhao’s business was promising until last year. His company, Sandbox VR, had taken over a number of retail spaces, and people would visit so they could run around shooting zombies, crossing swords with treasure-chasing pirates or exploring distant planets as members of a Star …

When the first HTC Vive was released five years ago, it felt like magic. You could fill an entire room with imagination, something that took the competition multiple years and more than one hardware revision to catch up with. But if you’d have asked me back then what the VR market would look like today, I’d have been way off.  …

Let’s face it: Facebook was bound to put ads in VR eventually. Like collecting personal data, advertising is core to the social network’s business model and extends across all of its other apps. Because ad-free VR is clearly an outlier, the company’s recently announced plans to test ads in its Oculus VR apps and games felt inevitable. But the developers …

Adobe sees the future of creation being increasingly 3D. Its newest Adobe Substance 3D apps are aiming to be a complete destination for 3D art, sampling and even virtual photography, with uses that could range from video game assets to e-commerce to content for a possible world of VR and AR-compatible 3D assets. But these apps are PC, Mac and …

Virtual reality has been, to this point, a largely ad-free experience, but that may soon change. Facebook is beginning to push ads into apps and games now, starting with a few test experiments. How far the rollout will go after that is unknown. Facebook had broadcast its intentions to use VR and AR data to inform advertising last year, with …

Facebook’s standalone VR headset, the Oculus Quest 2, doesn’t have any real competition if you’re looking for a simple VR device at home. But HTC’s newest Vive headset, the Focus 3, could provide major advantages for business users. It looks very much like an improved and more flexible version of the Quest 2, with better visuals and expandable storage… and a …