Compelling virtual reality shipped to developers and consumers nearly two years ago. The first flagship headsets arrived from Oculus and HTC back in the spring of 2016, offering enough resolution, frame rate, field of view, latency mitigation and position-tracking to produce believable visual immersion. But no one seems to know
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Virtual reality app designed to alleviate workplace, other stress
Hill is the founder and CEO of StoryUp VR, a virtual reality company that provides guided meditation and positive thinking activities designed to reduce stress. Founded in 2015, StoryUp recently launched a product for corporate use and an app that includes Ledford’s waterfall experience.StoryUp’s technologies have been used in corporations,
Gear VR PhoneCast app lets you use some 2D apps in virtual reality
Virtual reality is fun and entertaining but hardly useful when it comes to getting real-world things done, it isn’t of much help. At least with the current state of technology. In the meantime, however, users can have an approximation of productivity in virtual reality by having their non-gaming software brought
HTC Vive Focus VR Headset Shown In Trademark Apps
NASA Explores Virtual Reality Applications
NASA is the latest organization to embrace virtual and augmented reality. Thomas Grubb, an engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, is leading a team to develop six multidisciplinary pilot projects highlighting the potential of VR and AR applications that could be used by NASA in the future.“Anyone who followed the
Five alternate applications for virtual reality from Innovation Week
When most people think of virtual reality, they think of video games. But don't put the technology in a box: virtual reality is both a lot more accessible and useful in a lot more ways.Sidewalk Film Festival partnered with commercial application sellers to a TechBirmingham for a TechTuesday event Tuesday
Facebook put cork in chatbots that created a secret language
A pair of chatbots has recently done something children often do: create a secret language. Last month, researchers at Facebook found two bots developed in the social network's AI division had been communicating with each other in an unexpected way. The bots, named Bob and Alice, had generated a language all on
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The 10 best virtual reality apps
Virtual reality apps can immerse you in incredible 360-degree visuals. You don't need to splash hundreds of pounds on headsets such as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, you can enjoy a great VR experience using your smartphone and some brilliant apps.While early VR experiences were limited to advanced headsets, now there are
