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Two schools in the Chicago area, one in Aurora and one in Naperville, were chosen to participate in the new Google Expeditions program where technology brings kids on extraordinary journeys. Google Expeditions …
TECH AERIS · 1 day ago
Like many other eager early adopters, my first encounter with virtual reality headsetsbegan with heart-pounding excitement, and ended in nightmarish nausea. To an unfortunate subpopulation of people, virtual reality’s …
Singularity Hub Blog · 10 hours ago
Simulator SicknessGoogle previously showcased this technology by combining the tablet with a VR headset, which transforms a user's ... measurements and immersive augmented reality and virtualreality." The SDK (software development …
In-depth coverage >The Motley Fool · 13 hours ago
Project TangoMelburnians are forging the way in the brave new world of virtual reality. The idea of donning a headset and diving into a virtual realm is no longer the stuff of science fiction. Anyone can get their first taste of virtual reality …
Sydney Morning Herald · 1 day ago
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Advances in virtual reality technology will soon put questions such as this into sharp focus, with virtual reality headsets such as the Oculus Rift, set for public release next year. The technology is sure to transform film and …
The Age · 1 day ago
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Some marketers have been quick to jump on the ‘Virtual Reality’ bandwagon, using affordable VR headsets to bring a virtual experience to consumers. But Virtual Realityis just that – nothing can ever replace the …
B and T · 12 hours ago
Virtual RealityMississippi quarterback Ryan Buchanan uses a virtual reality headset to make football play decisions at the Manning Center in Oxford, Miss. Ole Miss is one of a growing number of football programs in the NCAA and …
KRQE News 13 · 6 hours ago
virtual reality“Imagine you have the ability to lucid dream at will,” says Cosmo Scharf, a rising senior at the University of Southern California who is a pioneer in the emerging field of VirtualReality (VR ... of the Oculus Rift headset …
USA Today College · 3 hours ago
Virtual RealityNo longer just the talk of science fiction, virtual reality allows users who slip on aheadset to find themselves immersed in a three-dimensional world unlike their own. The uses for this technology have centered on the …
Orlando Sentinel · 5 hours ago
virtual reality[Motherboard] If you were a ‘90s kid, you may remember Nintendo’s Virtual Boy, the not-quite-virtual-realityheadset that almost no one bought. Take an inside look at the development of the world’s first 3D gamingheadset and learn why it really failed.
Gizmodo · 26 minutes ago
At the moment, all three major high-end virtual reality headsets — Rift, Vive, and Project Morpheus — rely on traditional game controllers, wands, or a combination of the two. On the opposite end of the spectrum, VR …
VentureBeat · 1 day ago
eye trackingDuring the UK’s biggest gaming event EGX 2015 that will be taking place in Birmingham’s NEC from September 24th-27th. Valve And HTC will be making their newvirtual reality headset in the form of the HTC Vive …
Geeky Gadgets · ByJulian Horsey · 8/19/2015
Recommended: The 20 most fascinating accidental inventions In addition to backpacks and headsets, players are also given large plastic rifles with buttons for various functions, to aid them in mowing down zombie …
The Christian Science Monitor · ByJeff Ward-Bailey · 8/19/2015
ZeroIn a recent article, Alberto Perlman, co-founder of Zumba, said “We tried the virtualreality demo in the office and every guy who put the headset on started dancing, and that never happened with videos.” He continued …
hypergridbusiness.com · 1 day ago
virtual realityIf you're the owner of a new Samsung Galaxy S6 or S6 Edge, an extra $200 will get you Samsung's Gear VR Innovator Edition, one of the first virtual reality headsets available to the public. Like others following the …
Engadget · BySteve Dent · 8/19/2015
Gear VRSAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that the Open-Source Virtual Reality Consortium has selected Xilinx All Programmable devices to enable the industry's …
The Street · 8/18/2015
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has had a busy offseason, jet-setting to more countries than you can count with one hand. In March, he visited seven different countries as part of a USO Tour for the Colts …
sporttechie.com · 8/11/2015
Chinese video websites Youku Tudou and iQiyi have begun creating and adoptingvirtual reality (VR) content ... which will be available for viewing with VR headsets in October, the newspaper said. Gu's company also …
中时电子报 · 36 minutes ago
Virtual realityThe project comes courtesy of William Palmer, and it can be used without a virtualreality headset. Starships included in the project range from the original series version though the Enterprise-E. Alas, there is no love …
Trek Today · 8/20/2015
Every Friday, a dozen or so people strap on virtual reality headsets, log on to the Internet and do something that would normally require driving to a local multiplex: watch a movie with a bunch of strangers. Their avatars all sit in the seats of a virtual ...
New York Times · ByNick Wingfield · 6/15/2015
It's time for Cardboard 2.0 and Google's latest push with ... which have also introduced major virtual realityinitiatives. Facebook bought the VR headset maker Oculus a year ago for more than $2 billion. Facebook will launch a consumer version of the ...
CNet · 5/28/2015
The makers of the new generation of virtual reality headsets have warned that users could hurt themselves or become the victims of theft whilst they are using the devices. Developers have said that because the goggles occupy a user’s entire visual field ...
Daily Mail · 6/15/2015
Ah, yes. Nothing screams ‘escapism’ like strapping on a seven-inch screen from forehead to upper lip. While the virtual reality headsets available today are impressively immersive, they are not without their aesthetic downsides—but that’s simply ...
The Future of Retail · 6/18/2015
Virtual reality has hit the mainstream in a huge way. LG announced today that it will give away a Google Cardboard inspired headset to every customer who purchases a new LG G3 smartphone. The simplistic goggles are designed to mount to the …
ABC News · ByAlyssa Newcomb · 2/9/2015
Virtual reality has been seen as nothing more than a promising gimmick ... Oculus and their influential Riftheadset have been synonymous with this decade’s VR boom. They are one of biggest names in VR, and now also one of the closest to delivering ...
heavy.com · 7/22/2015
In the August 17 cover story of TIME, we take a deep look at the mainstreaming of virtual reality, the long-promised technology that is now becoming widely available to consumers. Headsets from Facebook’s Oculus, Valve, Sony, Microsoft, Google and …
Time · 8/6/2015
Interdisciplinary art collective BeAnotherLab has developed a virtual reality headset that allows users to experience what it would be like to live in the skin of someone from the opposite sex. The Machine To Be Another (pictured above) was designed by ...
dezeen.com · 1/22/2014
It was the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man which propelled the idea of virtual reality into the mainstream consciousness, long before any real hardware was capable of anything especially useful. That's not to suggest that people hadn’t been working on it for ...
Daily Telegraph · 3/10/2015
Palmer Luckey is the 21-year computer nerd who created the hit of CES 2014, the Oculus Rift virtual realityheadset. Jefferson Graham profiles him for Talking Tech. Palmer Luckey, the 21-year-old founder of the Oculus VR company, at company …
USA Today · 1/22/2014
Virtual reality is fast approaching, and Samsung has officially jumped into the fray, unveiling its own virtual reality headset called "Gear VR." Developed in collaboration with the Oculus VR team, the same company Facebook bought for $2 billion, the Gear ...
Yahoo Finance · 9/3/2014
The Samsung Gear VR virtual reality device works in conjunction with a Samsung Galaxy Note 4 smartphone and will retail for $199 by itself or for $249 with a Bluetooth gamepad. Samsung will release its first early version of its virtual reality headset ...
eWeek · ByTodd R. Weiss · 11/17/2014
SAN FRANCISCO — Sony is joining the chase for virtual reality, one of the most elusive dreams of the technology industry. At a conference for game developers here Tuesday evening, Sony showed a sleek, white prototype of a headset that is the result of …
Bits Blog NYTimes · ByNick Wingfield · 3/19/2014
The Oculus Rift has been bouncing around in one form or another—prototypes, Kickstarter campaigns, developer kits—for three years now. It’s been more than a year since Facebook purchased the company behind it, Oculus VR, for $2 billion. And you still ...
Slate · 6/11/2015
At a "Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony" panel today, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida revealed the company's long-rumored plans to enter a virtual reality headset space that has gained new relevance in the wake of the Oculus Rift's ...
Ars Technica · ByKyle Orland · 3/19/2014
To help treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, Jennifer Patterson turned to a gadget typically associated with video games: the virtual reality headset from Oculus, a company Facebook Inc bought for $2 billion last year. Patterson, an ...
FOX News · 6/11/2015
Less than a week after we first learned SteamVR existed, we already know what it is—sort of. It is indeed avirtual reality headset, a la the Oculus Rift or GearVR. It's the result of a partnership between Valve and HTC. And its name is "Vive." Those ...
PC World · 3/2/2015
Apple has been granted a patent for a virtual reality headset. Time reports on what could be another huge success for Apple. “The company has been granted a patent for a head-mounted virtual reality device that would use the iPhone screen as the display.
The Inquisitr · 2/18/2015
Try on any virtual reality headset and within a few minutes the sense of wonder might wear off and leave you with a headache or a topsy-turvy stomach. Computational imaging experts say that's because current virtual reality headsets don't simulate natural ...
Phys.org · 8/4/2015
People are not “going to use virtual reality to simulate walking around the parking lot.” In June, Oculus announced the launch of its first consumer product, the Rift headset, which will allow users to play videogames …
Wall Street Journal · 8/9/2015
virtual realityVirtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift have the potentail to offer truly immersive experiences. But being strapped in to a headset means losing awareness about the world around you, which is especially tricky if you need to, say, reach for you keyboard.
Mashable · ByChelsea Stark · 9/17/2014
It may already be too late for Palmer Luckey to start looking over his shoulder. That’s because VR Union, a two-year old startup based in Prague, has leapfrogged his advances in virtual reality by creating virtual-reality goggles with a display that is ...
Entrepreneur · 6/12/2015
You know how your phone is a tiny screen that you sometimes ignore? Virtual reality is pretty much the opposite. It uses a headset (you know, a big pair of glasses) that fills your entire field of view with an image. You turn your head left, you see left.
Fast Company · 2/27/2015
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sony is getting into the virtual reality business. The Japanese electronics and gaming giant unveiled a prototype virtual reality headset to be used in conjunction with its PlayStation 4 video game console during a Tuesday talk at ...
Yahoo News · ByDerrik J. Lang · 3/19/2014
Try on any virtual reality headset and within a few minutes the sense of wonder might wear off and leave you with a headache or a topsy-turvy stomach. In current "flat" stereoscopic virtual reality headsets, each eye sees only one image. Depth of field is ...
Stanford News · 8/3/2015
Oculus is expanding its highly anticipated virtual-reality headset to simulate the sensation of touch and gesturing as part of its quest to blur the lines between the fake and genuine world. The touch controllers unveiled Thursday by Oculus founder Palmer ...
News Max · 6/11/2015
From the Oculus Rift headsets to the new HTC Vive, virtual-reality devices will soon be flooding the gaming market. These gadgets have the power to transport their wearers to another world, but the technology has also been plagued by some unwelcome side ...
Live Science · 3/13/2015
HTC is ready to give its smartphone rival Samsung some competition in the virtual reality space, and already has lined up content from Lionsgate, HBO and Google for when its new Vive headset launches later this year. The company is developing Vive with ...
Variety · ByMarc Graser · 3/1/2015
SAN FRANCISCO: Oculus is expanding its virtual-reality headset to simulate the sensation of touch and ... The half-moon shaped controllers, called Oculus Touch, will be showcased along with the Rift headset next week in Los Angeles at the Electronic ...
Times of India · 6/12/2015
Will be quite similar to the Gear VR. Virtual reality headsets that have their own computing components and displays tend to be expensive as well as tough to develop. Smartphone manufacturers have taken a slightly different route to enable their ...
VR-Zone · 2/18/2015
While most virtual reality headsets place an emphasis on gaming, Canadian company Cordon Media believes that the technology is suited to everyday computing tasks such as browsing the web or watching video. It intends to bring its vision to the masses …
Gizmag · 11/25/2014
Google (GOOG)gave a gift to everyone who came to its developers conference this week: a kit to make avirtual reality headset out of folded cardboard and an Android smartphone. Virtual reality has lurched through several hype cycles over the past few ...
Bloomberg · 6/26/2014
There has been a lot of attention given to Virtual Reality (VR) headsets this past year or two, from the innovative Oculus Rift to the affordable Google Cardboard. However, up until this point popular and prospective headsets have faced off in a war over ...
Android Headlines · 1/14/2015
Patterson, an engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh, studied a software used on the prototype of the head-mounted display that creates virtual settings, such as a Middle Eastern-themed city or desert road, that soldiers would otherwise avoid ...
Reuters · 6/11/2015
Sony has just announced that virtual reality is coming to the PS4. It's called Project Morpheus. First rumoured last year, the Sony headset puts the PlayStation 4 in a strange place in the gaming landscape, setting it apart from the Xbox One while offering ...
Kotaku · 3/19/2014
Sept 3 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has launched a virtual reality headset for its new Galaxy Note 4 phablet using technology from Oculus VR, a company that Facebook Inc acquired for $2 billion. The wireless headset, called Samsung Gear VR ...
The Huffington Post · 9/3/2014
Virtual reality — technology that allows people to explore artificially ... Related: Three reasons why the first VR headsets will suck… but I’m buying one Unfortunately, the limits of computer processing power and …
Digital Trends · 8/15/2015
Rift“There are a few VR (virtual Reality) Headsets for phones out there and none ... This makes it just perfect for a VR headset. After having traveled recently on American Airlines with no video on domestic flights and one mini screen in the center row ...
3dprint.com · 2/19/2015
(Reuters) — To help treat soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, Jennifer Patterson turned to a gadget typically associated with video games: The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset Facebook bought for $2 billion last year. Patterson, an ...
MassDevice · 6/12/2015
The new Samsung Gear VR looks futuristic. It is not the first of its kind, but it is the first consumer-focused VR headset, which requires the user to insert a preferably Samsung brand smartphone to do virtual reality. The headset is powered by Oculus, the VR company dominating the space.