Emotive Avatars to be the Future Face of Virtual Reality

Are you tired of watching a flat avatar of yourself in VR that shows a very limited set of expressions, if not completely inexpressive? Avatars are one of the things that have captured interest of a lot of people diving into virtual reality. If we’re pitching virtual reality as the future of our world, it…

HTC Vive Focus Plus: Stepping in Right Direction

Recently, we got our hands on an HTC Vive Focus Plus dev kit. Safe to say that we all had a field day with it, taking turns to experience the headset that claims to outwit other standalone ones. Although taking turns may be exaggerating a bit, since I’ve had to resort to tricks to get…

The Quest for Perfection

Not long ago, HTC released it’s new standalone headset, the Vive Focus Plus, home to a number of innovative ideas like the rotating-wheel head strap and the ability to turn on the camera by double clicking the power button (really helps when you’re looking for the controllers), and two integrated, more efficient remote as compared…

VR & Eye-Tracking: Creating a Roadmap of How Customers Make a Choice

Pretty much everyone has heard the proverb ‘Eyes are windows to the soul’. But nobody would have expected back then that they could also lead us to reveal secrets of how people decide to buy anything. It’s a commonly known fact that 95% of purchase decisions happen in subconscious. Since most of it happens somewhere…

Facebook Wants to Bring Your Entire Body into VR

To make virtual reality feel even more immersive and engaging, Facebook has already started working on full-body avatars, reflecting the people in VR just like in real world. At its annual F8 developer conference Facebook announced that they are working to make and animate full body virtual avatars that use anatomically correct models of our…

Microsoft Aims to Improve VR for Visually Impaired

Accessing virtual reality is no longer a problem for visually impaired with Microsoft’s new tool kit, SeeingVR. It focuses on making VR more accessible to users with vision that is either weak or cannot be corrected through prescription glasses. SeeingVR was created with the collaboration between Microsoft researchers, Cornell University and Cornell Tech. It incorporates…

Oculus Launches ASW 2.0 with Positional TimeWarp

Recently Oculus announced the release of Asynchronous SpaceWarp 2.0 for the Rift. It’s an upgrade to its ASW technology for smoothing out visuals inside headset to reduce latency and compensate for fluctuations in performance. Both SpaceWarp (to smooth frame motion) and TimeWarp (to keep latency low) are combined by ASW for apps that can’t keep…

A New Era of Collective VR Cinematic Experience

Over the years cinema experience has undergone huge transformations. With the introduction of projector in 1895, film industry made cinema a collectively shared experience for the masses. Then came IMAX that intrigued and attracted people to watch movies in a way that made the characters come to life right in front of your eyes. CAVE,…

Unity’s Portal – A Doorway to Virtual World in AR Apps

The success of VR and AR can be plotted in a positively linear relationship graph where both technologies stand in a neck-to-neck position. A number of software industries are now geared by virtual and augmented reality tools. The novel immersive environment has brought a revolution in software businesses and solved a lot of problems. Starting…

Terra Virtua enters the StickerVerse – Explore a World of Digital Collectibles

Terra Virtua: The Future of VR Terra Virtua is the first fully immersive virtual reality and augmented reality entertainment platform. The highly anticipated gaming and entertainment platform has shown great potential to transform the future of VR landscape. It has fused the very best of augmented and virtual reality entertainment with blockchain based economy, creating…

CES 2019 – Coolest VR Innovations

Best time for manufacturers and developers to display their latest developments in VR and AR tech is in Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2019 showed off a number of cool gadgets that impressed a lot of tech enthusiasts. Here are the best ones from this year’s products on display: Oculus Quest As demand for VR is…