Google used to keep most details about its self-driving car program under wraps. But in the last few months, the self-driving car team—now a separate subsidiary called Waymo—has been making a concerted effort to open up and share key details with high-profile media outlets. During an interview with Bloomberg back in May, Waymo unveiled key details of…
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…
This one’s a shocker. It was less than a week ago that the 360VR Community rejoiced at the $200 price drop of the Vive, and now THIS.We have been publishing great news about the HTC Vive, through its use in Corporate Training via its Enterprise sector, so this report hit us like a ton of…
This all seems like a joke, right? Guess what: it is NOT. At first, I thought this was a creepy yet brilliant viral marketing strategy in the ”use that VR stuff everyone is talking about to get people to talk about us” vibe. But it seems that this is an all-too serious Training Program being…
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…
Lenovo has just announced that they are launching 4 new additions to their lauded Legion lineup. The announcement was made at gamescom, held in Cologne from August 22-26. The additions consist of three VR-ready Windows® 10 PCs Lenovo Legion Y920, Y720 and Y520 Towers, and the new Lenovo Legion Y25f Gaming Monitor. While the announcement…
As Paul Beatty, PhD, says: “We all want the best for our families, but sometimes we have to make a hard decision and opt for assisted living for our elderly”. This can stem from a gradual decline in health, difficulties in performing menial tasks, loss of cognitive functions requiring supervision, or general depression from being isolated from…
Video Credits: Business Reporter I love flying. I hate flying. There is no middle ground, when you ask most people. I cringe at the thought of being stuck in the middle seat. Let’s just say that I am awaiting the arrival of Teleportation with so much passion, it hurts. This is why the news of Air France…
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