The recent departure of Brendan Irbe’s from Oculus generated a negative buzz about Oculus Rift 2 cancellation. However, the misconception was put to rest by Facebook as they reiterated that there was no truth to the rumors of Rift 2 cancellation: “While we can’t comment on our product road map specifics, we do have future…
Month: October 2018
How Gesture Control Can Let You Interact with Virtual Objects?
Rise of immersive technologies like Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality can be credited to bold and cutting-edge ideas captured in science fiction. While augmented reality has crossed the boundaries of what’s possible in sci-fi, it’s still hasn’t made that leap in real world. But continuous inventions are slowly bridging the gap between imagination and reality….
Telepresence: Extraordinary Power of VR
3D presentation and immersive nature of virtual reality has already taken interaction of people to next level. 3D video calling is catching up to skype, facetime and WhatsApp calling and may even surpass their popularity. It’s because VR calling gives the feeling of teleporting to your friends, family or colleagues. The rising question is to…
History of VR: From Lucid Dreaming to Sci-Fi Tech
Ever had those dreams when in the middle of it you become aware of it being a dream and tried to shift its direction to your will? It’s called lucid dreaming. Although people usually wake themselves up if you remain sleeping, you can do anything you want to. If you think about it, lucid dreaming…
Time Travel in VR: How Far Can You Go?
A lot has been said about VR taking people to different places, however, a new dimension has been taken up by a recent study: time. Putting together a convincing enough VR can let people experience time travel or at least the illusion of it. But they can’t experience time travel if they haven’t first taken…
Become a Part of Someone Else’s Virtual World with Mobile Spectator
Immersive technologies have been here for a while and the one goal that everyone is striving to achieve is to bridge the gap between virtual world and technology. Owlchemy Labs has taken us a step further in that direction with its recent tool that attempts to break the stigma of VR being a lonesome affair….
Feel Three to Conquer the Physical Virtual Reality
Virtual reality tech is evolving day by day with respect to both software and hardware. Users can feel sight and audio in the virtual immersive world, but now technologists are building hardware that will allow the human body to perform and physically feel and act in virtual experiences and games. Feel Three is one of…
The Future is Virtual Reality
With Oculus Quest making news in the list of impressive VR hardware, virtual reality is not done yet. There is still so much more that’s coming our way. Here what’s got us most excited about VR: Realistic Touch with Haptic Feedback Grabbing something in VR and throwing it with empty hands would definitely feel more…
The Quest of Oculus
Every time Oculus brings a new idea in immersive tech and becomes the focal point of VR users. A new concept, Project Santa Cruz, was proposed in 2016 by Oculus. The aim was to develop an inside-out headset 6DOF tracking on both wireless headset and controllers. Oculus Quest, standalone high-tech VR headset, previously known as…
Edge Computing and AR: A Match Made in Data Center
VR and AR content experiences are undoubtedly more immersive when necessary computation to render content is executed close enough to those devices. So far AR still hasn’t reached its optimal potential but it looks like edge computing could change that. A lot of devices have switched to “cloud” processing, meaning that it is carried out…