Parrot’s AR drones have been a darling in the tech world for the past few years. The small, lightweight smartphone-controlled rigs are like souped-up toys for your inner child, but powered by very grown-up technology.Now the French gadget maker has announced a new high-flying machine, the Bebop, which is designed...
Editor's note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.You might have heard: Facebook is buying Oculus VR for $2 billion. Whether you like it or not, virtual reality will be a big part of the future of technology, and Facebook is making that possible.About a month before...
Facebook is going virtual in about the biggest way possible. The social network will acquire virtual reality-hardware maker Oculus, creator of the acclaimed Oculus Rift headset, for roughly $2 billion. The deal apparently represents Mark Zuckerberg's gamble on a technology he believes may one day supplant today's mobile devices.Last month, Facebook...
Oculus Rift isn't out yet, but Sony has its own ideas for enhancing the gaming experience with virtual reality.At this week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony's gaming subsidiary on Tuesday evening unveiled a virtual reality prototype that works with the company’s new PlayStation 4 console, called “Project Morpheus.” The VR device...
While the rest of the world was caught up with Google Buzz, Apple was quietly granted a patent for a virtual reality App Store. The store patent encompasses details such as seasonal and time-based lighting, color schemes and a basic storefront representation. A few bloggers have already criticized the patent...
During my recent visit to MIT in Boston I met with Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor and Director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Laboratory. He showed me some demos of what his lab is up to, focusing mostly on what is termed "Cross Reality". This is when sensor/actuator...
If you're familiar with Plex, you probably know it as one of the most polished media management software in the market. If you're not, let us tell you that Plex allows you to organize, stream, and share your media through its app on all the major platforms, including Android, iOS,...
Virtual reality wants to envelop everyone's eyeballs, not just those of gamers. The nascent industry wants couch potatoes, too.Oculus, the Facebook-owned VR gear maker that has come to embody the current virtual-reality wave, has been lobbying hard to make VR cinema an actual thing. The company just struck a deal last...
While gamers wait patiently for their virtual-reality headsets to go on sale, there's another industry ripe for the VR picking: movies. That means, as VR technology matures, filmmakers have to work out a new approach to their craft. But if they get it right, audiences are in for a far more immersive...
At a press event in San Francisco Thursday, Facebook's Oculus VR unit announced a hardware and software partnership with Microsoft to help bring its virtual-reality wares to market.First, we'll see a wireless Xbox One controller and PC adapter packed into every Oculus Rift headset package. Additionally, the Rift will natively...
Google has officially revealed Jump, an open-source VR platform that includes plans for a 16-camera array capable of filming 360-degree, three-dimensional pictures and video. Clay Bavor, the creator of Google Cardboard and a vice president of product management at the company, announced the new platform at Google I/O Thursday. Here's how...
Maybe big things really can come in small, ridiculous cardboard face-boxes. Google just made several announcements Thursday that aim to advance its popular Cardboard virtual reality viewer for manufacturers, app developers and end users. Cardboard, the curious corrugated VR "unit" Google launched at its I/O developer conference last year, seemed like...
This year’s Mobile World Congress should have been renamed Mobile Wearable Congress, with many of the world’s tech companies showing off their latest strappy gadgets. One of the big winners in this category is HTC and the gigantic piece of face gear it introduced this week.Though expected to whip out...
Valve may be living in its own virtual reality worldGaming and entertainment platform Steam has confirmed it has a "SteamVR hardware" device in development, which it will show off at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week. The Valve-owned company hasn't dropped many clues about what this hardware...
There are two Consumer Electronics Shows every year. One is all about glitz, with big gadget companies producing gonzo exhibits and lavish parties. The other is a low-key affair, where executives in back rooms discuss initiatives that will shape technology’s future. The latter is where I met Matt Apfel, Samsung’s vice...
Have you been waiting for more practical implementations of augmented reality (AR) technology outside of gaming and marketing initiatives? So have we. That's what makes the technology Zugara is launching now so interesting. It has teamed up with U.K.-based online clothing retailer Banana Flame to offer a virtual dressing room of...
Meta’s Quest 3 headset had a strong Q4 last year. At stages over the holiday period, it was outselling Sony’s PSVR2 by 30 units to one on Amazon in the run-up to Christmas, and this has helped Meta Reality Labs, the division behind the Quest 3 and Ray-Ban smart glasses,...
How you break a gaming headset is one of life’s mysteries up there with, “Where did all my socks go?”. In reality, it’s not that difficult to do. While generally looking robust on the outside with big chunky bits of plastic covering everything, inside are thin, cheap, easily breakable wires...
The emergence of the digital economy is a complex and ongoing process that has evolved over several decades. Today, collaborating the real world with a virtual one delivers new technologies at a breakneck progression. One such nascent yet most talked about technology of today is the Metaverse. What is the...
Since the early 2000s, when it burst into the entertainment industry, augmented reality has been on the lips of all technology lovers as the "new trend" or the tool of the future that everyone would use, but as the years have passed, it appears that it has lost pace. If...
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