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Mesmerizing particle physics simulator Chroma Lab is now available on Steam for $5. It works with both Vive and Rift and lets you use your hands to interact with colorful particles floating around you. The particles behave like a fluid and can be toyed with as they react realistically to the ways you play with them. According… Read the full article…
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GUEST: Imagine flying into a new city. The rental car company hands you a pair of smart glasses at the airport. As you step outside the terminal amid the airport traffic chaos, your AR glasses identify the autonomous car driving up to get you with a digital “Your car” sign hovering above it. It knows… Read the full article…
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Esports VR broadcasting company SLIVER.tv announced it completed series A round equity funding with $9.8 million raised. To date, the company has received $17.5 million. Danhua Capital, Heuristic Capital Partners, and ZP Capital led the round while addition funding came from DCM, Sierra Ventures, The VR Fund, Samsung Next Fund and Sony Innovation Fund. SLIVER.tv CEO and… Read the full article…
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Computer vision and sound experts have demonstrated ‘Media Device Orchestration’ – an innovative home audio concept which enables users to enjoy immersive audio experiences by using all available devices in a typical living room. Read the full article…
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Star Wars fans will soon be able to use the power of AR to find out more about the latest entry in the series, The Last Jedi. Disney and LucasFilm today announced Find the Force, a global AR event kicking off on September 1. As IGN reports, from next month, over 20,000 retail locations across 30… Read the full article…
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GUEST: Virtual reality, though still in its nascent stages of evolution, is becoming increasingly commercially viable, just as augmented reality is also gaining popularity. But as with any gold rush, developers and vendors are feverishly working to stake their claim on a new frontier while still partially mining in the dark, as both VR and… Read the full article…
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VB LIVE: Virtual reality is an entirely new way of interacting with content, but is the technology too new to engender consumer confidence? Join our latest VB Live event for insight into the future of VR commerce and how payment technology can revolutionize – and monetize — VR experiences. Register here for free. At the… Read the full article…
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Hello and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo finally adopts PayPal support, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ first tournament was a success, and the World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) organization is under fire for how it’s separating an esports tournament based on gender. Oh, and don’t forget to check out our Madden NLF 18 guide for the… Read the full article…
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GUEST: With Apple’s recent introduction of ARKit, developers have rushed to create seriously impressive AR demos for the iPhone. This has resulted in some futurists and techies proclaiming that the age of the smartphone has ended and that the takeover of AR smart glasses is not only inevitable but also imminent. However, rumors of the… Read the full article…
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New trainees can only escape this room when they learn how to make KFC’s Original Recipe fried chicken. A creepy-sounding Colonel Sanders narrates the game and teaches employees the five step process. Once they complete this challenge, they even get a certificate with their time and grade on it. Terrifying. Read more… More about Virtual… Read the full article…
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Travis and Stewart interview Scott Stratten, the man behind “unmarketing,” in this week’s episode of VB Engage, as part of the Unbounce CTA Conference interview series in Vancouver. Scott reveals some of his greatest engagement tips and tells us how AI will affect the marketer’s life. Speaking of AI, and the news this week, we debate… Read the full article…
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GUEST: In the next seven years, true augmented reality will likely not become mainstream anywhere, except the automotive industry — and here are the reasons why. By “true” augmented reality” we mean AR that shows virtual objects to be actually integrated with the real environment and visible on various depths, not only on a screen’s… Read the full article…
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Researchers have shown for the first time that the use of a brain-computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities. Read the full article…
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GUEST: Last month, AltspaceVR, one of the most beloved startups in the burgeoning, albeit struggling, VR consumer industry announced it was shutting its doors due to what they described as “unforeseen financial difficulty”. This is by no means an ordinary player in the VR community. The California-based startup is one of the earliest pioneers in the… Read the full article…
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If you can’t get enough of cats in actual reality, you can now obsess over kitties in virtual reality, too. The adorable Cat Sorter VR is exactly what it sounds like: a game where you sort cats. It hits Steam and Viveport, the HTC Vive content platform, on August 29. The Cat Sorter demo was chaotic… Read the full article…
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Get ready for an LCD Soundsystem listening experience unlike anything else. The band announced this week that it has officially released its first virtual reality experience called “Dance Tonite.” SEE ALSO: LCD Soundsystem covered David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ at Coachella, and it was just about perfect The project was put together with the help of… Read the full article…
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Standard behavior experiments to investigate behavior in popular lab animals only incompletely mimic natural conditions. The understanding of behavior and brain function is thus limited. Virtual Reality helps in generating a more natural experimental environment but requires immobilization of the animal, disrupting sensorimotor experience and causing altered neuronal and behavioral responses. Researchers have now developed… Read the full article…
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The virtual reality (VR) wars are starting to heat up, with HTC announcing earlier today that it is slashing the price of its Vive VR headset from $800 to $600 — a month after Facebook scythed prices for the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controller. But VR remains very much a niche medium, and we’ve yet… Read the full article…
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Intel is unveiling the first batch of its 8th generation Core processors, which are targeted at laptop users who like to do video editing or run virtual reality apps. The chips should also be plenty good for new kinds of gaming laptops. Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel said the chips have 40 percent better performance than… Read the full article…
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In preparation for the upcoming holiday season, HTC announced a permanent price reduction for its Vive virtual reality headset. Starting today, it will drop from $800 to $600. The announcement comes a month or so after Facebook slashed the prices for the Oculus Rift headset and Oculus Touch controllers, bundling them for $400. HTC says its… Read the full article…
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