A Mobile Game with Physiologically Aware Virtual Humans Depression and anxiety are common mental disorders. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), around 14% of the world population suffers from at least one severe mood disorder during the course of … Continue reading Dancing with avatars
WoofbertVR launches virtual reality app for museums WoofbertVR launched a Samsung Gear VR app this week that will allow users to take virtual tours to marque museums around the world. Powered by Oculus VR, the app is already available for … Continue reading VR access to museum
Breaking Down Billion-Dollar AR/VR Investment In The Last 12 Months Augmented and virtual reality are the new hotness, as VCs and corporates get in on the act. While Facebook’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of Oculus got everyone’s attention early last year, … Continue reading VR is the new hotness
Hurts so good: 12 hours with the new Samsung Gear VR I have long been fascinated with the idea of virtual reality, but despite the explosion of VR devices and media over the last few years, I haven’t really spent … Continue reading Being immersed in the Gear VR
The Dream Life of Driverless Cars On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly-equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic. At the wheel was Matthew Shaw, a 32-year-old architectural designer; with him was a fellow designer, William Trossell, 30, and … Continue reading The senses of self-driving cars
The Making Of eleVR’s Virtual Reality Puzzle Game “Float” Is Fascinating A company called eleVR, which does research in virtual reality and isn’t a gaming company at all, just shared a video for a virtual reality game they’re working on … Continue reading Being immersed in a large space
Finding Hope in the Vigils of Paris: A Virtual Reality Film Arriving in Paris after the terrorist attacks last week, we didn’t find people in a state of despair. Instead, as we traveled to the various sites of the attacks … Continue reading The NYT VR in Paris
Stop Calling Google Cardboard’s 360-Degree Videos ‘VR’ I love seeing people get excited about their first taste of VR. The sooner more people experience the transformative power of VR, the better. But if the high-powered, desktop headsets that are coming … Continue reading Videos are not virtual reality
The Swayze Effect The gospel around here at Story Studio is to deliver a compelling, immersive, evocative VR experience by telling a great story. As a studio founded by former Pixar team members, we believe in a simple mantra: “Story … Continue reading How to get lost in VR
LSBU invests in virtual reality tech A far reaching vision by LSBU to get its students learning interactively has led to commission a state-of-the-art Virtual Reality (VR) suite from Virtalis. The £300,000 contract has resulted in the recent installation of … Continue reading The VR Auditorium
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 