Games can manipulate minds of people. From the stage where it started, computer games always have effected players positively or negatively. The arrival of the VR in the game arena has changed the concepts of gaming. It runs both game playing and learning in parallel. VR technology has changed the old rituals by putting a…
Author: Mustafa Butt
Oculus Boosting Developers with New DLC Support
Today’s digital stores need to support the post-release DLC which has a commonplace in games. To satisfy this need, implementation of standalone downloadable content in mobile stores for Go and Samsung Gear VR has been recently announced by Oculus Go. Developers of Go and Rift can now charge for their additional assets which they will…
Ready Player One – Lifting VR Sales
Can a film play a successful role to increase the worth of VR in public sector? Yes to Ready Player One, a movie with the idea of virtual reality by Steven Spielberg’s. HTC China’s president spoke about the positive concern of VR purchase by people in coming year at iQiyi Technology and Entertainment World event….
What could be more than a Retina Display? Yes to 1001PPI LCD
Perceiving ability of human eye is less than equal to 300ppi from a distance of 1 foot. Efforts of Iphone brought a new concept, the Retina Display, which modernized the vision. New technology is expanding the boundaries for VR headsets display to a range of 1000ppi to 2000ppi and will release the product in May…
Samsung & Microsoft – Mixing Realities
Microsoft and Samsung are going to make a headset which will satisfy the needs of both augmented and virtual reality. The structure of headset will stand on Microsoft’s Mixed Reality platform and product will be unveiled in late August at Berlin’s IFA technology display. “Samsung Electronics is working on developing cordless and high-priced headsets supporting…
HTC Vive Dev Kits now Available, and that too at a Discount!
Back in January, Vive Focus the standalone VR headset arrived in China. Now it’s on its way to the rest of the world. HTC has lowered the price to make it easier for Devs to get their hands on Dev kits, but even after the discount the price is almost the same as the original…
VR Camera – The New Uprising fueled by Facebook
A partnership is proclaimed between Facebook and digital film camera company, Red Digital Cinema, at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The idea of VR camera based on Facebook’s Surround360 was the main discussion of the session. Last year, two new reference designs of Surround360 were announced in Facebook’s F8 conference. These cameras capture scene volumetrically in…
Knuckle to Knock-Out
After debuting the ‘8K’ VR headset, Pimax is introducing a new controller with its future VR hardware. Code named Knuckle controller, a smart new design, grips your hand for an ‘open-palm’ practice. With more changes from previous prototype, it clutches your hand firmly in knuckles-style allowing you to act more naturally in VR. The controller…
A Jump into the Future
A standalone VR prototype, design with enhanced features in Oculus Rift, using positional tracking of both controllers and headset completes the definition of Oculus Santa Cruz. In 2016 it was announced that Santa Cruz project will be “the future” of facebook by bringing better VR experience without PC connections to its users. It is fairly…
A New Class of AR headset
Leap Motion reveals an AR headset with high-resolution and 100 degree field of view. The project is known as Project North Star and they are planning to open-source the design of the device. They are leading in hand tracking hardware and softwares. From desktop input devices they moved to VR and now AR is their next…