nVidia, who has been making noises on the virtual reality front for a while now, has announced that they’re to launch ‘Gameworks VR’ to “help VR headset and game developers build incredible experiences on GeForce GPUs”.
Google’s I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and gestures and translate them for input.
Get ready to enter new worlds and discover how virtual reality will revolutionize the way we communicate. On June 4th, VR Philly will be hosting the next meetup and you’re invited! This time, we will be talking about what may very well be the most compelling use of virtual reality: social events.
Project Tango, Google’s computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to the job.
Google has just released the Cardboard Design Lab app for Android which puts users inside of a VR environment and teaches them fundamentals of VR design. The app demonstrates each of its lessons quickly in impressively effective ways.
We all know that the VR market is heating up, but what is staffing like at the companies that are creating these devices and applications? Whether or not companies are able to find the talent they need may have an impact on their ability to penetrate the market and gain customer adoption. Considering this, we took a deeper look into the demand and supply for virtual reality skills.
Today is the second and last day of Google I/O 2015 and we’ve spotted three livestreamed sessions that VR developers and enthusiasts might enjoy. Catch the livestream along with us right here.
Manus Machina, a tech startup based in the Netherlands, have released a video preview of what they’re calling ‘the first consumer VR glove’ ahead of its appearance at E3 2015 where the device will quite literally be on hand for demonstrations.
Ready or not, Apple, here comes virtual reality on the iPhone courtesy of Google. The search giant has now released the official Cardboard app for iOS with a few brand new demos. What’s more, the Cardboard SDK is compatible with iOS as well, opening the gates for Google’s vision of VR on its competitor’s platform. This virtual invasion may put pressure on Apple’s VR plans.
Amidst other VR related announcements from Google at today’s I/O 2015 conference comes ‘Jump’, a VR camera that will follow Cardboard’s path by offering up an open design. Google is also revealing the ‘Assembler’ which the company says can combine multiple video feeds into a “seamless” 3D scene. YouTube will support VR video playback for Jump videos starting this summer.
GoPro, the biggest name in rugged ‘action’ video cameras, is ready to jump into the VR space with a 16 camera array based on Google’s new ‘Jump’ design for 360 degree VR video.
Google today unveiled an educational initiative that leverages virtual reality and the company’s low-cost Cardboard VR viewers to let teachers take their students on trips around the world as a classroom—they call it ‘Expeditions’.
At Google’s I/O 2015 developer conference today, Clay Bavor took to the stage to update the world on the company’s VR developments and has revealed a new and improved Cardboard VR viewer for smartphones.
While it was exciting last year to see Google post some five full time job listings for virtual reality projects, eight additional full-time job listings from the company shows how fast they’re growing their VR team.
As part of Google’s growing virtual reality developments, the company is seeking an Optical Design Engineer for Cardboard and Virtual Reality. The job listing says that the employee will “Drive the design of novel optical designs…”.
