The screen-door effect. It is the most obnoxious problem that can hinder any VR Experience. Simply explained: it is what happens when users can see the gaps between the pixels. Technically speaking, it is when a light-blocking area between the sub-pixels of a display panel is clearly visible. In other words, the effect takes away the Immersive…
Yale’s Center for Teaching and Learning, the campus hub for innovative and creative teaching methodologies, brought students to an ancient Assyrian palace via Oculus Rift, a virtual reality system. The students were in a class on the history of the ancient near east taught by Kathryn Slanski. The palace model was created by Learning Sites,…
Rochelle had suffered from claustrophobia for most of her life, but her cleithrophobia was triggered in 2013 when she got stuck in a Tube (subway) train. She said: “We stopped in a tunnel and the announcement came over the speakers and the driver said “we’re being held here for a moment, we don’t know when we’re…
Air France is one of the oldest airlines in the industry. It is, as most things from the beautiful nation of France are, kinda stuffy and old-school. This is exactly why it decided to launch a new “spinoff” airline to target millenials, called Joon. A quick tour of their website shows that while even the in-flight…
Mastercard and Swarovski launch a virtual reality (VR) shopping app for the Atelier Swarovski home décor line. The app, launching in October on Android & iOS, immerses consumers in a tastefully decorated home where they can browse and purchase the pieces with Masterpass, Mastercard’s digital payment service. Mastercard has teamed up with crystal seller Swarovski…
Google‘s philosophy has always been clear: to Democratize Virtual Reality, making it accessible to as many as possible. Their very first VR Product, the Google Cardboard, is tangible proof of this. Their VR Motto is “VR For All“, and the tech giant has been one of (if not “the”) the Champions of the platform aimed…
We reported that Sony had taken a stronghold on the Tethered Virtual Reality Headset sales figures during Q1 of 2017, having sold more than double both HTC Vive& Oculus Rift combined. Today we find out that Sony shipped out another 500,000 PlayStation VR headsets during the three month period through June, making it far-and-away the industry…
Researchers from the University of Oxford have been using Virtual Reality to look at interactive models of genes. The simulations use data combined from genome sequencing, data on the interactions of DNA and microscopy data. It lets you see which parts of the genome sit interact with each other in physical space. regions interact with each…
When HTC Corp brought back founder Cher Wang two years ago to turn around the struggling Taiwanese mobile phone maker, investors hoped she could stem a sharp loss in market share to Apple and Samsung Electronics. But the gamble to rebuild the early smartphone pioneer’s reputation failed, as its market share has continued to dwindle…
There are many working in the Virtual Reality Industry wondering whether or not this “thing of ours” will ever “go mainstream”… Well, according to a report from Fortune Magazine, the industry just got a little positive push from none other than Oscar-winning actor and Environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio. The reports states that Leo is joining MindMaze, a…
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