Let me start by making a confession: I am not a Gamer. Despite the fact that I kinda suck at gaming, I’ve always found a bit of a guilty pleasure in watching others play games. Basically, I’m that friend that (very vocally) encourages you while you are kicking all the butts, pokes fun at you for…
Just over a month ago, we reported on how Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab had harnessed the power of Virtual Reality to create its Oscar-Nominated camera work behind the space battle above Scarif in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The video above shows a glimpse of the technique used, while the interview below provides a more in-depth explanation….
According to a post on his personal blog, Eugene Wei has left Facebook. After enjoying a few Executive roles at Hulu and Flipboard, Wei joined Fb back in 2015. The post suggests that he would have left in mid-July, roughly around a few weeks after the in-house cinematic VR production team, Oculus Story Studio, was…
The product description sounded good on paper, although the product’s name should have warned us: “FaceDisplay: Enabling Multi-User Interaction for Mobile Virtual Reality”. Then, we saw the product introductory video. My reaction was… Well let’s just say that Ace Ventura said it best: “Aaaaaallllllrighty then…” Taken from the white paper: We present FaceDisplay, a multi-display mobile…
There’s Good News, and there are Bad News attached to the news that, along with the September 15 launch of Samsung Mobile‘s latest flagship phablet, the Note 8, it was also launching a new Gear VR headset. Once again proof that Size DOES Matter, the 0,1 inch (2,54mm for the rest of the World 😉) difference…
According to a press release on its corporate website, UPS has confirmed that it will “start training student delivery drivers to spot and identify road hazards using Virtual Reality (VR) headsets that vividly simulate the experience of driving on city streets while teaching a more memorable classroom lesson.” The VR Training Initiative is set to…
Mobile VR seems to be steadily growing in numbers, repeatedly outpacing the PC-based tethered VR solutions. In particular, it came to a surprise to us to see how quickly the numbers had grown for sales of the Google Daydream View, and when we realized its sales were higher than the HTC Vive & Oculus Rift…
Meike Muzzi, 83, is in palliative care at Bridgepoint Health, but escapes from her hospital room using virtual reality. (CBC ) “What you’ve brought me so far has been beautiful,” Muzzi says, settling the soft black material of the goggles into the creases around her eyes. Virtual Reality is not just for Gaming, and the…
On Monday the 21st of August 2017, North America, and most especially the United States, will be treated to its first Solar Eclipse of the century. This beautiful Cosmic event is most definitely something you may not want to miss. However, the fact is that you SHOULD NOT stare directly at the Eclipse, just like you should…
Stephen King’s IT, originally released in 1990 as a two-part miniseries, scared the 💩 out of pretty much everyone. This past week, it was (finally!) released as a full-length movie, and we are PSYCHED. Though technically not a “remake”, as it was never a “movie” to begin with, many people out there seem to think…
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