Virtual Reality

Darren Millar Oct 12th, 2019In a recent TechCunch interview HTC’s new CEO Yves Maitre made a critical admission: “HTC has stopped innovating in the hardware of the smartphone, people like Apple, like Samsung and, most recently, Huawei, have done an incredib…

Look at how much fun they're having. That could be you! Ford Holoride began its pursuit of redefining in-car entertainment with Audi earlier this year. A new partnership with Porsche blossomed just last month. This week, Ford is the latest to work with Holo…

Marvel Studios' Avengers: Damage Control is a virtual reality experience developed by ILMxLAB and available at different locations for THE VOID. This experience sees Shuri gather four new recruits to test special technology, a suit that combines Stark Industr…

Audi spin-out Holoride is launching to the general public for the first time, though a collaboration with Ford and Universal Pictures . The young company is focused on a unique twist on virtual reality: In-car VR, to be experienced by a passenger while a vehi…

Our hands are rich forms of gestural expression, but capturing these expressions without hindering the hand itself is no easy task–even in today’s world of virtual reality hardware. Fret not, though, as researchers at the Interactive Geometry Lab have recentl…

Microsoft might be working on a virtual reality mat to, at least in part, keep you from getting clotheslined by your coffee table yet again while ostensibly blinded by a VR headset. The company calls it a virtual reality floor mat activity region in the paten…

Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced that Wang would be stepping down from the role, which would immediately be filled …

Forward-thinking businesses have been looking for ways to leverage augmented reality and virtual reality for some time now. The Pokemon Go craze predicted a new way of thinking. Gone are the days when these technologies were regarded as the work of an overact…

Late last year, John Root of Virtual Reality Los Angeles approached me with a crazy idea: what if we built a giant fake forest, placed it in the middle of the Los Angeles Convention Center, and used HoloLens to allow people to hunt for virtual Easter eggs ins…

"In some examples, computing device may take the form of a gaming console, and and peripheral control devices may be peripheral to the gaming console," it wrote in the filing, while the illustrations depict an Xbox as we…