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This Haptic Gloves Lets You Feel Hidden Underwater Objects

A new type of haptic sonar glove developed by Ph.D. candidates Aisen Carolina Chacin and Takeshi Ozu of the Empowerment Informatics program at Tsukuba University in Japan, lets the user “feel” underwater object using a mix of SONAR echolocation...
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‘Wallace and Gromit’ Creators Debut 360 Animation Short ‘Special Delivery’

British animation studio Aardman, responsible for creating Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, are back and this time they're in 360 degrees as they debut they're latest short film 'Special Delivery' via Google's 360 film initiative 'Spotlight Stories. Aardman...
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vTime Creators Give us a Guided Tour of Gear VR’s Newest Social App

vTime, the newest social VR app in the Gear VR store, is different. It's seemingly the first social VR app to use the familiar 'friending' mechanic borrowed from traditional social networks, which essentially creates a digital handshake that allows...

Mozilla’s VR Team Walks Us Through Creating a Basic VR-capable Website

Mozilla, the creators of the Firefox web browser, is a major advocate for the web platform and is fostering significant efforts to make sure that virtual reality is a 'first-class citizen' of the internet. With the launch of A-Frame,...

Tekken 7 VR Support Hints Dropped by Developer

Bandai Namco Designer Michael Murray has dropped some fairly major hints that their forthcoming Tekken 7 will not feature a full, fighting 'VR mode' for the game proper when it ships next year supporting Sony's PlayStation VR headset. If when...
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Oculus Release 12 Minute LeBron James 360 Short Film for Gear VR

Oculus and UNINTERRUPTED have released a new 12+ minute short film directed by Felix & Paul, a 360 documentary following the NBA star in his training regime. "Striving for Greatness: An UNINTERRUPTED Original", is the latest 360 VR video experience from...

Premium Storytelling Experiences with The Virtual Reality Company

The Virtual Reality Company is a 360-degree video production studio in Hollywood that has Steven Spielberg as an advisor. I had a chance to catch up with Joshua Watson, Emily Cooper, & Chris Edwards at Oculus Connect 2 to...

‘Virtual Reality Girls’ with Paisley Smith & Ashley Pinnick

The Virtual Reality Girls group started as a Instagram and Twitter accounts by Paisley Smith, Ashley Pinnick, & Julie Young. I had a chance to catch up with Paisley and Ashley at the Oculus Connect developer conference in September...

Using Virtual Reality to Archive Art Installations with Matt Henderson

Matt Henderson is a visual artist from Portland, OR who has been creating art installations of abstracted Christmas nativity scenes for the past six years. Matt has been inspired to use virtual reality in order to document and preserve...
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Star Wars Features in Latest Project Tango Mixed Reality Project

Trixi Studios have released a video demonstrating their latest project leveraging the AR and mixed reality power of Google's Project Tango platform. The video features Star Wars: The Force Awakens character BB-8 and a gaggle of stormtroopers projected into reality and...