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HTC co-founder Peter Chau’s new startup picks great time to tease super-social VR headset Virtual Reality

HTC co-founder Peter Chau’s new startup picks great time to tease super-social VR headset

XRSpace, a startup founded by one-time HTC chief Peter Chou, has announced plans to introduce a new 5G-enabled virtual-reality headset in Q3 of this year. Dubbed Mova, the effort represents a significant divergence from industry trends, which have emphasised interoperability and relative affordability. Priced at $599, the Mova costs a…
bubmag
May 26, 2020
Link About It: This Week’s Picks Virtual Reality

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Seoul’s Liquid Anamorphic Illusion, “WAVE,” by d’strict Located on the LED screens of Seoul, South Korea’s COEX atrium, the large-scale public art project, “Wave,” by local digital creators d’strict, tricks passersby (and those who watch the video, too). An anamorphic illusion, the artwork simulates a giant wave about to break…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more Virtual Reality

Facebook’s Workplace, now with 5M paying users, adds drop-in video Rooms and more

One of the biggest technology takeaways of the last couple of months has been that organizations need confident, wide-ranging digital strategies to stay afloat, and Facebook — in its wider bid to build products to serve businesses — is taking note. In the same week that the social network doubled…
bubmag
May 21, 2020
Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab Virtual Reality

Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab

NASA is looking to pay US citizens to spend eight months in social isolation inside a Russian laboratory. The goal is to simulate the longterm social distancing that astronauts will endure on future missions to Mars. The location is "a unique multi-compartment facility used as an analog for isolation, confinement,…
bubmag
May 19, 2020