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Vive Focus and Oculus Santa Cruz – The next generation of VR?
The forward march of technology never slows. As quickly as the HTC found success with the Vive and Oculus with the Rift, these relatively young tech giants are ready to follow up with new and improved hardware options. Taiwanese competitor, HTC, are following up on their market-leading Vive and Vive [...]
5 Amazing Ways to Improve Your Business with Virtual Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) became mainstream a few years ago with the introduction of affordable, user-friendly headsets. Since then, businesses have been aggressively tapping into the opportunities created by VR technology. This is hardly surprising given the immense possibilities VR creates by freeing us from the physical limitations of our bodies, [...]
Our Favorite VR Escape Room Games
Real life, venue-based escape room experiences have been trending since 2010. They offer the public the chance to solve puzzles as a group in spooky dungeons, creepy jails and on awe-inspiring spaceships. People queue up to play with friends, while the activity has also proven to be a popular virtual [...]
Magic Leap – The Story So Far
Tech geeks of old forewarned us that every home would one day include a personal computer, that the Internet would transform the way in which we live and that mobile phones would quickly evolve into pocket-sized supercomputers - but something about human nature means that big promises of a better [...]
Virtual Reality – Making Health and Safety Training More Engaging
Many of us playfully moan about the rise and rise of health and safety rules, but ultimately we all benefit from living in a safer world than our parents and grandparents did. However, companies and organisations aiming to train staff in health and safety face a major challenge - [...]
Virtual Reality Event Ideas
Over the past year or two, virtual and augmented reality have seen a real growth spurt. Not only has this come from the increase in their quality, but also because modern smartphones are making the idea of it a whole lot more accessible. The thing about virtual reality is that [...]
Getting Fully Immersed at the “Star Wars: Secrets of The Empire” VR experience
VR-based entertainment is most certainly creeping it’s way into the homes of gamers and enthusiasts, but it’s Stratford’s Westfield shopping center where the wider public are getting their first taste of the fun that can be had while wearing a VR headset. “Star Wars: Secrets of The Empire” is a [...]
Virtual Experiences For The Travel Enthusiast
Armchair travel has never been taken so literally before. For the cost of a cheap, really cheap, airline ticket you can now jet around the world, in first class, and never leave the ground. Brought to you by First Airlines, which is being described as the ‘world’s first virtual airline’, [...]
Virtual Reality Takes Center Stage in “Ready Player One”
Seeing The Matrix was many a geek’s first time imagining people living out their existences in a life-like virtual world. Ever since that seminal film graced the silver screen in 1999, sci-fi fans and luddites alike have pondered how human culture will evolve when virtual reality and virtual worlds inevitably [...]
2018 The Year That Big Business Will Adopt Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality Started the Revolution, Now its Augmented Reality’s Turn Virtual reality has gamers and geeks around the world itching for more immersive digital experiences, be they video games, 360 videos or virtual tours. It’s augmented reality (or AR) however, that appears to be transforming the way in which many [...]