VR

IHG has been around since the 1700s, but most people might know the company as the owner of the Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotel brands. It is a huge conglomerate with more than 16 hotel brands, including a couple that were architected and market tested…

Immersive media has the potential to disrupt the journalism landscape in profound new ways. While technical issues still limit, ambitious journalists are using all available platforms to get a glimpse of the storytelling media of the future. As immersive medi…

Pistol Whip Review

Cities have always been Americas centers of power, driving the economy forward through competition. But now, theyre ceasing to lead the countrys innovation. As jobs and talent have clustered, expertise has spilled over urban boundaries. In locations like the…

Resonai, an AI and augmented reality company, is betting on finding customers in commercial real estate.  Virtual and augmented reality have been highly hyped for decades, with mixed results. In real estate, it has mostly been used to visualize what future s…

Since its initial announcement, Microsoft says it's shared early HoloLens 2 prototypes with customers and received plenty of feedback. The shipping version hasn't changed much from the first units we've seen, according to Greg Sullivan, Microsoft's director o…

Resolution Games is launching a level builder so fans can create custom levels in Rovio‘s Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. The level builder is part of an update for the existing virtual reality game, where you can move around and attack the green pig fortresse…

On November 4, Facebook separated its parental corporate entity from its ubiquitous social network app and service, creating a new (and boring) logo that will identify all Facebook-owned properties. The new logo is a simple all-caps text representation in a c…

Y'all, eBay is not letting us breathe this year. The first two weeks of November make up the unspoken season of retailers dropping their official Black Friday ad scans. While Amazon, Walmart, and Target are still no-shows as of Monday morning, Nov. 4, BestBla…

A lightsaber battle in VR with Darth Vader caps off Oculus' three-part episodic series. ILMxLab Somewhere between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, just a bit before Rogue One, Darth Vader lurks on Mustafar. The three-part VR experience Vader Immortal, wh…