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….
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…
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…
Control Ableton Live from VR. Ever wanted to use a giant Push or Launchpad from within VR? AliveInVR controls Ableton Live allowing you to trigger clips, play instruments and mix with a giant 3D Controllerist interface in VR. In case you’ve been living under a musical rock: Daft Punk are a duo of producers with…
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…
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…
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