This Pulsating ‘Haptic Skin’ is Somewhat Creepy, Mostly Awesome
Omnipulse is a new haptic technology out of Cornell's Organic Robotics Lab which uses an array of embedded pneumatic actuators to create haptic feedback which feels quite 'organic' compared to the more 'mechanical' of many other haptic technologies out there....
Microsoft Technical Evangelist on Presence in VR Game Design
The Microsoft Build conference starts this week, and I expect that we'll be learning more about the HoloLens as well as Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality operating system. Microsoft has been evangelizing about virtual reality the past couple of years...
Preview: ‘Arden’s Wake’ the Latest Work From ‘Alumette’ Creator Penrose Studios
Penrose Studios’ latest VR film work, Arden’s Wake: The Prologue, has debuted at TriBeCa Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade. As “Prologue” implies, Arden’s Wake will be released in episodic form, though the final number of 'episodes' in the series, as...
VirZOOM Partners With AMD to Bring VR Fitness Bikes to Locations Across the Globe
Pedaling a stationary bike is kind of a sad metaphor for life: try as you may, you're never going anywhere. But thanks to virtual reality, there might be an exercise machine coming to your local gym or arcade that...
High Fidelity is Architecting for VR Privacy with Self-sovereign Identity
Philip Rosedale has been thinking deeply about how to architect large-scale, distributed virtual worlds after experiencing many bottlenecks as the founder of Second Life. His new metaverse venture, High Fidelity, is taking a much more distributed approach with how it's...
Why 360 Film is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 3: Demand
The 360 film industry is still young and it's maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they're going, and...
The Future of ‘Facebook Spaces’: Opening the Door to Third-party Developers
Facebook launched their first social VR app Spaces last month to much acclaim. It's a polished experience that does a few things very well, and has the major benefit of tapping into Facebook's existing dominance of the social graph. But...
Why 360 Film is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 2: Workforce
The 360 film industry is still young and it's maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they're going, and...