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The founder of Oculus says schools need his invention because 'classrooms are...
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey thinks that the company's virtual reality headset will eventually make its way into schools, allowing students to learn in new, immersive ways. "Classrooms are broken. Kids...
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Virtual reality will replace smartphones, says Oculus founder (FB)
“I believe [virtual reality] is going to be more ubiquitous than the smartphone,” Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey said at Web Summit 2015 earlier this week.Luckey has been one of the most important...
View ArticleThe New York Times is taking a stab at virtual reality with this new app
The New York times has a new virtual reality app which provides 360-degree video content meant to be experienced through smartphones or Google Cardboard-like. We tried it out to see if it's the future...
View ArticleA nuclear engineer is solving virtual reality’s biggest problem
Justin Krenz is building the future of virtual reality.A former nuclear engineer for the Navy, Krenz has been a big fan of video games his whole life, even building a few PC titles of his own, like...
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Now you can own a great virtual reality headset for just $100
For the past year, Samsung's Gear VR headset has been the most approachable virtual reality offering you could buy.But now, the Gear VR headset is much improved — it's 19% lighter than its predecessor...
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When you get punched in this VR game, it really hurts
Strap on an HTC Vive or Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, and what you see is so lifelike it's almost scary.Companies are getting closer and closer to mastering visuals in virtual reality, but...
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This is the most beautiful virtual reality game we've ever played
No one knows how to make a beautiful game better than Ustwo, the design studio behind the hit iPhone title "Monument Valley."Now Ustwo is getting into the world of virtual reality with "Land's End," a...
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One of Mark Zuckerberg's 'big regrets' shows why he's going all-in on virtual...
Facebook may own three of the biggest apps — WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger — but it has relatively little influence over the development of the mobile devices and operating systems on which they...
View ArticleThis virtual reality device lets you experience what it’s like to get punched
Researchers at Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany have created a VR device that lets you experience physical impacts, including getting punched in a boxing match.The device uses haptic feedback to...
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One of the NFL's top quarterbacks trains with virtual reality
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer is having an MVP-caliber season. And he might just attribute some of his recent success to virtual reality.Last year, the Arizona Cardinals became one of the...
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There's a major catch to Samsung's $100 VR headset
Everyone is excited about the idea of affordable virtual reality. We are too!But there's one slightly misleading fact about Samsung's cheaper, lighter Gear VR, which goes on sale today: it doesn't cost...
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Samsung’s $100 virtual reality headset is selling out online
Samsung on Friday released its cheaper, lighter Gear VR headset.And as of Monday morning, it’s already sold out on Amazon and Best Buy’s online store.You can still buy Gear VR directly though Samsung’s...
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This is the first commercial for a mainstream virtual reality headset
Samsung on Friday released its cheaper, lighter, Gear VR headset.And over the weekend, the company released its first commercial for that virtual reality headset.The 30-ad shows off some of the...
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I was skeptical about virtual reality until I watched this horrifying...
I now believe that this is the moment virtual reality will catch on.My realization came over the weekend at my friend Brad's house. He'd been raving about Google Cardboard, the virtual reality...
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This beautiful game was designed to make you believe in virtual reality
I walk out of a cave into daylight and see a vast, colorful world of cascading mountains. The world around me feels vast and serene. As I look up, birds fly over my head.I'm inside "Land's End," a...
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Apple has acquired Faceshift, a virtual reality startup used in the latest...
Apple has acquired a Swiss real-time motion capture startup called Faceshift for an unknown amount, according to TechCrunch.The company's virtual reality technology can be used to generate animated...
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Nokia's 'first product since the phone days' is a $60,000 virtual reality camera
Nokia is making a $60,000 (£40,000) camera that can be used to film virtual reality shots, The Verge reports.The camera, named Ozo, will launch in early 2016 and features multiple cameras across its...
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Nokia's $60,000 virtual reality camera could revolutionize filmmaking —...
Making movies is expensive.Aside from the millions of dollars spent on marketing, the filmmaking process itself is quite costly, which can be daunting for aspiring or amateur filmmakers. For example,...
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Disney just launched a way to experience 'Star Wars' in virtual reality
Disney just launched its first virtual reality "experience" to tie in with the launch of the upcoming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" movie.It features the show's iconic title sequence — and the...
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Amazon has a crazy patent that could transform your living room (AMZN)
Unlike virtual reality, where you put on a headset and you're immersed in a virtual world, augmented reality lets you see the real world with virtual elements layered on top of it.Amazon is apparently...
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