During yesterday’s WSJD technology conference, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz finally broke the silence since the mysteriously cancelled TED appearance scheduled back in March, where he was to give insight into the company’s ‘Digital Lightfield’ technology.
3D spatial audio specialists Two Big Ears have launched a new ‘Spatial Workstation’, a platform for audio engineers to mix and edit immersive audio with realtime feedback leveraging VR headset head-tracking information.
Magic Leap debuted some footage of their mysterious tech at WSJDLive today, a yearly conference held by The Wall Street Journal featuring some of the biggest names in tech.
Steve Hansted from Sixense took to the stage at VR Launchpad in Mountain View, CA today to announce that the virtual reality 3D modelling application MakeVR, often used alongside the company’s STEM motion controllers, is being “spun out” into a separate company and will become “hardware agnostic” where VR input is concerned.
Samsung’s former Design Lead Alex Chu helped bring the Gear VR headset to life and was instrumental in the design of Milk VR, Samsung’s 360 video portal. Now, Chu has left Samsung to start his own company Vicarious VR, who promise to deliver an immersive, accessible storytelling platform for everyone.
3D engine giant Unity have been announced as a headline sponsor for the upcoming UK virtual reality conference VRTGO on November 11th. The company will also speak at the event, explaining why they believe VR is the future of not just games, but just about everything.
Archaeologist and realities.io founder David Finsterwalder recently turned to virtual reality to demonstrate the fruits of his archaeological labor for those lucky enough to catch him at meetups in Ellwangen, Munich and Stuttgart. One unlikely visitor, a local Nun, turned out to be huge fan of the demo.
Developer Three One Zero is bringing ‘Astronaut in peril’ adventure title ADR1FT to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Sony PlayStation VR next year. Here’s some new gameplay courtesy of GamesHQMedia that raises the question: Are you mentally strong enough to survive this game?
Rendering specialist Otoy has as of late taken to deep exploration of light fields as a medium for rendering high fidelity virtual reality scenes. While the company’s computer-generated ray-traced light fields are great for viewing CGI envrioments, what happens if you want to capture the real world? Well, Otoy has been working on that too, and we’re the first to see their progress in action.
Tactical Haptics, the company behind the unique tactile feedback technology ‘Reactive Grip’, will show their latest HTC Vive compatible prototype for the first time at VR Launchpad, the the VR startup showcase event, kicking off tomorrow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
VR Startup showcase VR Launchpad is now less than a day away and, in addition to a lively collection of hand-picked virtual reality pioneers and entrepreneurs in attendance, Nvidia will be showing off its latest, cutting-edge VR-ready laptop at the event.
Emergent is creating ‘Mobius’, an app and platform enabling users to capture and share VR experiences using existing smartphones. From a user standpoint, Mobius seems like a fairly typical 360 degree stitching app, like Photosynth or Photo Sphere (part of Google Camera), which can output the scene in a VR-ready view. But the company has a fairly awesome twist up their sleeve: seamless video integration into still photo spheres.
VR Launchpad, the VR startup showcase, is upon us. Tomorrow the halls of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA will be filled with a diverse group of hand-picked VR startups alongside investors, media, and VR influencers. And it’s not too late to grab your ticket.
Aashna Mago talks about the first Women in VR event in San Francisco that she helped organize on September 20th, 2015. There were over 200 people who attended the event that featured 13 women luminaries who are working in virtual reality, demos from Bay area start-ups, as well as brainstorming sessions about how to get more women into VR. Aashna talks about what gets her excited about getting more women interested within VR, and adding more diversity to the virtual reality field. Aasha has had an interesting path for getting into virtual reality that’s included teaching herself programming, taking a number of strategic mentorship positions, and studying computer science at Stanford University. She aspires to become a virtual reality engineer, get more involved with education using VR, and continue to evangelize VR to new users.
