Samsung Electronics will develop mental health diagnosis programs that use mobile virtual reality (VR), the company has announced. The tech giant signed a cooperation agreement with Gangnam Severance Hospital and VR content maker FNI for the programs, with the goal to commercialise them in 2018 in hospitals, dementia centres, and schools, before being expanded to homes…
UCLA researchers are the first to blend virtual reality with a surgically implanted prosthesis to reveal what happens in the brain when people create memories. Nanthia Suthana is one of the first neuroscientists in the world to harness the power of VR to unravel how someone’s brain encodes and retrieves memories while the person…
There were not-so-quiet rumblings this week when reports surfaced that Samsung had filed for patent on what seems to be a new 360º Camera. As all major companies regularly file for design/concept patents, we did not view this as something that was out of the ordinary, there did not seem to be anything to get…
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…
Lee Jae-Yong, the billionaire heir-apparent to South Korean electronics giant Samsung, has been sentenced to 5 years in Jail as part of the massive corruption scandal that shook the country and caused former South Korean President Park Geun-hye to be impeached. Jae-Yong head of the world’s biggest cellphone maker, having taken over in place of his…
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…
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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