How Giving Mark Zuckerberg A Demo Changed My View Of VR
I’ve witnessed the VR space grow from its infancy, back at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. I was there when Mark Zuckerberg came in to demo the tech, and … Read More
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I’ve witnessed the VR space grow from its infancy, back at the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab. I was there when Mark Zuckerberg came in to demo the tech, and … Read More
Meta is streaming some free Lionsgate movies each month to Quest 2 owners, who can watch together in Horizon Home with friends in the United States. Lionsgate movies like Gods … Read More
Today I report news that I’m pretty excited to write about: the CEO of Mojo Vision has worn in his eye a functioning smart contact lens and used it for … Read More
That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for VR. This coming August, NASA will launch its unmanned Orion CM-002 spacecraft out of Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, … Read More
Pokémon GO meets professional basketball in NBA All World. Niantic, the company behind popular location-based AR games such as Pokémon GO and Pikmin Bloom, just announced the latest addition to … Read More
Meet Educators In VR — open community of educators meeting, sharing and collaborating in VR Immersive pioneers revolutionize remote education with interactive experiences in social VR Educators in VR is an open community of … Read More
Part 3— An Immersive Transmedia Storytelling Design & Cross-cultural Educational Strategy. Cross-cultural learning and pedagogy that can be enjoyed and understood at a universal, cross-cultural level. Photo by Freepik.com (2021) … Read More
12 min read Buzzy metaverse projects have already sprung up around gaming, socializing, working, and creating, so it’s unsurprising that educators have started to explore ways to bring education into a … Read More
Interhaptics Partners with Saarland University around the Haptic Design Challenges in Virtual Reality (VR) Interhaptics and Saarland University’s HCI Lab and UMTL teams are collaborating to study and better understand the … Read More
The metaverse has taken over as the construct to define our future connected lives. And though it’s still ill-defined, there’s consensus that the next era of computing will involve more … Read More
Another VR music maker is headed to Quest. This time it’s PatchWorld from patchXR. A store listing for the app appeared this week, confirming it will launch on July 7. … Read More
Upcoming VR dungeon crawler, Ruinsmagus, finally has a release date. The gorgeous RPG experience launches on Quest on July 7 and is now listed in the Coming Soon section of … Read More
Imagine being late for school in the metaverse. Immerse is an educational metaverse platform developed in collaboration with top researchers from North America, Europe, and Japan. According to the company, … Read More
Earlier this month during Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC 2022, the company gave developers the first look at improvements coming to Apple’s ARKit 6 toolkit for building AR apps on … Read More
It’s hot and the drought is creating some issues here in northern Italy. But I had a nice weekend, plus I’ve been chosen by Onalytica as one of the top … Read More
“Yo dawg, I heard you like VR games…” A VR developer by the name of Quentin Valembois, aka Valem, is quickly becoming known for his experimental projects involving cutting-edge immersive … Read More
There’s a common rallying cry among AR proponents that the technology will transform the way people shop. Stepping away from inherently-vested narratives, where are the proof points? Does AR shopping — or … Read More
Metaverse and virtual reality sells beyond gaming and technology markets if it solves problems. It will not sell if it creates them. We’re getting better on hardware and high quality … Read More
SideQuest is an amazing tool for unlocking a bunch of VR content and tools for Quest, and we really suggest setting it up if you own a Quest 2. Now … Read More
Upcoming PSVR 2 exclusive Horizon Call of the Mountain will feature “multiple paths” for players to pursue. An updated webpage for the game — as mentioned by PSVR Without Parole … Read More
Little Cities will receive hand tracking support this week on Oculus Quest and Meta Quest 2. As you might recall, we spoke to James Howard, one half the Purple Yonder … Read More
A typical WiFi screen, part of the Diva Distro, is the web-based front end for the Diva Distro version of OpenSim. OpenSim customers that use Diva Distro version of OpenSim … Read More
(Image courtesy Reiner Schneeberger.) The Metropolis grid will shut down on midnight on June 30. But before one of the oldest OpenSim grids closes for good, it will be the … Read More
Horizon Call of the Mountain, an exclusive title headed to PSVR 2, got its first gameplay trailer earlier this month which suggested VR’s first Horizon series game would be more … Read More
Co-op VR dungeon crawler, Legendary Tales, is getting a huge new world as part of an early access update soon. The New World update was announced this week and intends … Read More
VR stealth game Thief Simulator VR is coming to Meta Quest (formerly Oculus Quest) soon. A port of the game has appeared in the Coming Soon section of the Quest … Read More
In this week’s episode of Between Realties, Alex and Skeeva host Chris Alderson, Co-Founder and Art Director of Polyarc Games. Chris tells the story of how the hit VR game … Read More
Go 2,000 years back in time on the Virtual Reality Bus. Whoever said time travel wasn’t possible hasn’t heard of the Virtual Reality Bus, a 16 passenger transportation vehicle operated … Read More
Owlchemy Labs is one of the supporting sponsors for the UploadVR Summer Showcase 2022. If you haven’t seen it yet, check it out on our Youtube! Their generous donation helped … Read More
The new update makes sideloading games and apps easier than ever. If you own a Meta Quest headset you’ve probably heard of SideQuest. The popular VR platform features a wide … Read More
The company will begin by changing ‘Facebook Pay’ to ‘Meta Pay.’ Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week announced that the company is working on a digital wallet that will make … Read More
SideQuest’s new in-headset app for Quest 2 and Quest streamlines the installation of custom home environments and popular community-made VR ports of classics like the original Doom, Quake, and Half-Life … Read More
Not only is excellent VR shooter, Compound, getting a full PC VR release soon – it’s coming to Quest 2, too. Developer Bevan McKechnie confirmed as much to UploadVR following … Read More
Industry analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, a respected figure in all things Apple supply chain leaks, says the Cupertino tech giant is likely preparing to launch its long-rumored mixed reality headset early … Read More
Satirical VR shooter, The American Dream, arrives on Quest next week. Developer Samurai Punk will bring the game — which first launched on PC VR and PSVR back in 2018 … Read More
Meta research suggests VR’s most transformative gains in telepresence and visual realism may come from advances in display brightness and dynamic range. Speaking on Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth’s podcast, the … Read More
The Steam Summer Sale is on now until July 7 with big discounts on VR games including Half-Life: Alyx. If you haven’t played one of VR’s most polished games games … Read More
The Tribeca Film Festival has already come and gone, and this year’s event boasted of 20-plus celebrated immersive works. Located in the heart of Manhattan’s popular Tribeca neighborhood, audiences flocked … Read More
Meta will introduce a digital wallet for use in the metaverse, as part of its Meta Pay (formerly Facebook Pay) service. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a … Read More
Create an interactive 3D replica of your personal space using the IKEA Kreativ Scene Scanner. It was back in 2019 that IKEA first introduced the ability to preview furniture in … Read More
Steam VR had a notable update on June 14th. Not so much in what was introduced in the patch notes itself. But in the backend: we got a ton of … Read More
Tencent, the China-based multinational known for WeChat and a host of mobile games, reportedly announced to staff that was creating a unit dedicated building out its XR offerings. As reported … Read More
Maybe they are not sexy or exciting to talk about, but industrial smartglasses are very successful in their field because they get the job done for a reasonable price. And Realwear, one … Read More
It takes massive amounts of data to train AI models. But sometimes, that data simply isn’t available from real-world sources, so data scientists use synthetic data to make up for … Read More
Vive Flow, HTC’s compact VR headset, is targeted at travelers and consumers looking for casual VR experiences and media consumption. Now the company has announced it’s marketing a Business Edition … Read More
BMW is also getting in on the action with its own VR world with drivable MINI Coopers. American instrument manufacturer Fender has partnered with Meta (formerly Facebook) to launch the … Read More
The company’s visualization engine layers digital content over professional athletes in real-time. The NHL thought it would be a great idea to broadcast the Stanley Cup Championship games using Beyond … Read More
Apple CEO Tim Cook was interviewed by China Daily, and he made an interesting comment when asked about AR headsets. Reporter: “Chinese consumers are highly enthusiastic about VR and AR … Read More
The still-nascent AR sector hasn’t lived up to expectations. That’s mostly because it’s a lot easier to imagine use cases for “phygital” interaction than it is to execute. In reality, … Read More
Apple has barely mentioned augmented or virtual reality in its big keynotes lately, however at WWDC 2022 earlier this month, the company quietly released probably one of the best 3D … Read More