Biometric Data Streams and the Unknown Ethical Threshold of Predicting & Controlling Behavior
I recently attended the Experiential Technology Conference where there were a lot of companies looking at how to use biometric data to get insights into health & wellness, education for cognitive enhancement, market research, and more. Over the next...
‘Witcher 3’ Developer “observing [VR] with interest”, Awaiting Compelling Content
Developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED, 2015's Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is surely one of the best regarded games to launch in recent memory. Studio co-founder Marcin Iwinski says the studio is watching VR carefully, but he's still...
NASA’s ‘Mission: ISS’ is an Impressively Detailed View of Life in Zero Gravity
NASA and Oculus have launched their collaborative project 'Mission: ISS' for the Oculus Rift for free and it's offers a detailed, visually sumptuous virtual reality trip to space that most of us would otherwise never experience.
Virtual Reality's transportative powers...
Report Predicts AR and VR Headset Shipments to Approach 100 Million by 2021
In a new report from IDC (International Data Corporation), the market research firm predicts a near 10 fold increase in the shipments of augmented and virtual reality headsets in the next 4 years, bolstered by a plethora of new...
First All-in-one VR Headsets Based on Qualcomm’s VRDK Expected in 2H 2017
Qualcomm's latest VRDK headset is a reference design that the company has positioned to act as a foundation for consumer electronics makers to create their own headsets based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon VR hardware. Now with manufacturing partners on board,...
HTC to Sell Shanghai Phone Factory for $91 Million, Invest Proceeds in VR Business
Despite its major role in the growing VR space, HTC's overall business continues to struggle financially, posting significant losses over the last two years. Working to turn things around with a restructuring of assets and priorities, the company is...
Privacy in VR Is Complicated and It’ll Take the Entire VR Community to Figure It Out
When I was at the GDC VR Mixer, Jim Preston struck up a conversation about his concerns about privacy in VR. He works at FOVE which is making a VR headset with eye-tracking, but wanted to speak to me on...
Epic Games Busts ‘Robo Recall’s’ $10 Million Myth
Good news. Robo Recall, one of the best looking games available on a VR headset today, actually cost a lot less to produce than the rumored $10 million.
It's certainly a compliment to the small team at Epic Games responsible...
‘Raw Data’ Early Access Review, Now with Oculus Touch Support
Raw Data, a first-person combat game from Survios currently in Early Access, is one of the most fast-paced and exciting games out for HTC Vive and Oculus Touch right now. Far from being a simple shooting gallery, Raw Data gives you an...
NVIDIA GTX 1080Ti vs. 1080 VR Performance Review: Supersampling Showdown
NVIDIA's latest GPU is here and it offers a big performance bump, but what exactly does that power deliver the VR gaming enthusiast? We pit the new Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti against the GTX 1080 to see just how...
