VR

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…

TL;DR: Get your game on with a Centipede 4-in-1 arcade machine on sale now at Walmart for $174.99 that's 41% off the normal price of $299.  Set the Wayback Machine to 1981. You're in the video arcade at the mall and Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" is blasti…

The researchers claim that most approaches to resistance in VR hardware are bulky, costly, and require significant power to reach human-scale forces. This is because they use large powerful actuators. CapstanCrunchs solution to this problem is to use a capst…

Disney+ unscripted originals VR Dan Silver said: "Disney has a long history of giving audiences a glimpse at faraway lands and bringing new talent into the spotlight. We believe Ned is next in line. We're lucky to have the talents of the Jim Henson Co. and t…

From a distance, filmmakers seem to live a pretty magical life, free to pack up and head off to far-flung locales and bring their creative visions to life. Visual artist and director Shane Griffin loves that part of his job, of course, but he also knows the r…

Enlarge/ A user traverses a park while wearing a DreamWalker kit. 2 with 2 posters participating Researchers at Microsoft have developed new VR technologies that they claim allow users to remain fully immersed in a virtual world even while traversing public…

Spherical video was briefly popularized during the heyday of mobile-friendly VR (Daydream and Samsung's Gear VR etc.), and as with phone-based VR, the technology soon hit a plateau with consumers. Wrangling 360 files was hard, viewing them in any meaningful w…

Nearly 70% of Americans play some type of video game each day. And, with the growth of live streaming, mobile gaming, AR, and VR, this number could get even bigger. While Twitch.tv, the leading live-streaming platform, hosts millions of users that air video…