Virtual Reality

The company is taking another swing at revitalizing VR. Today's Best Tech Deals Picked by PCWorld's Editors Top Deals On Great Products Picked by Techconnect's Editors I am very skeptical about Microsoft Mesh, the company’s new virtual-reality platform, and you should be, too. Microsoft's last attempt at virtual reality, the…

Microsoft’s Ignite conference is underway, and this year it held the event’s keynote address in Virtual Reality. Alex Kipman, the man behind Kinect and HoloLens, spent most of the keynote addressing the audience in hologram form and showing off Microsoft’s new Mixed Reality Mesh concept. What came next is something…

Home News Spaceflight The Mars Society unveiled a crowdfunding campaign for MarsVR. (Image credit: The Mars Society) Using virtual reality, you could explore the surface of Mars from the safety of planet Earth.  The Mars Society, a space advocacy group supporting the human exploration of Mars, has partnered with virtual…

Since Snapchat’s launch in 2011, editing your photos with a filter has been a tap away, and these filters have come a long way from the dog ears and tongue first offered to us. Almost all social media platforms have some form of photo function with AR add-ons and image…

The tech giant is still committed to VR Feb 23, 2021 11:14 AM EST In what seems like a direct response to rumours that Sony is ditching virtual reality, the tech giant has confirmed that it’s working on a next-generation VR (virtual reality) headset for the PlayStation 5. Sony says…

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It’s Sunday evening, and I’m sitting with my legs crossed on the bottom of the sea. My fingers poke a nearby turquoise anemone, and it reflexively tucks into itself. A crab off to my left scuttles into a cave. My breath catches in my throat as a smack of vibrant…

(Global Times) Many consider 2020 to be the year that virtual idols finally took off in China because of its increasing market scale, the accession of entertainment and technology companies and the appearance of virtual idols on platforms such as livestreaming services. "There are nearly 250 million people in China belonging to…

Lucy, the virtual being from Fable Studio‘s Wolves in the Walls virtual reality experience, is getting around. Now she has busted the fourth wall and moved into the real, or virtual world, of the virtual Sundance Film Festival. This week, Lucy appeared as a guest at Sundance. She appeared in…

Startups focusing on building new immersive technology products have completed Digital Catapult’s Augmentor accelerator programme By Sebastian Klovig Skelton , Senior reporter Published: 02 Feb 2021 15:15 Ten immersive technology startups have graduated from Digital Catapult’s fourth Augmentor accelerator programme after developing virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed…