Five Reasons Why Virtual Reality Is Becoming Mainstream For Marketers Have you ever experienced virtual reality (VR)? No doubt this technology is worth trying and is leaving an impression on the roads of marketing. VR has undoubtedly been in the … Continue reading Marketers Into The World Of VR
Acer Mixed Reality Headset gets the VR experience right The best test of any virtual reality system is how quickly can you forget you’re wearing a virtual reality system? By this measure alone, Acer’s Windows Mixed Reality Headset (and the … Continue reading Welcome to my VR house
Hectic Shroom Trips Are Now Available in Virtual Reality Finally, you can now hallucinate in virtual reality. A team from Sussex University has produced a VR program they’re calling the Hallucination Machine, allowing users to put on a headset and … Continue reading To the shores of oblivion
What We Can Learn From the Second Life of Google Glass For every new piece of technology that gets developed, you can usually find people saying it will never be useful. The president of the Michigan Savings Bank in 1903, … Continue reading What can this do that smartphone can’t?
Rise of the ‘digisexual’ as virtual reality bypasses need for human intimacy The lexicon of sexual orientations has already given us ‘demisexuality’, ‘pansexuality’ and ‘bicurious.’VBut according to experts, we will soon see the rise of ‘digisexuals’ – people whose sexual … Continue reading Digisexuality
Virtual Reality Companies Are Changing How Athletes See Practice Stanford kicker Jet Toner drags his right foot on the ground, then taps it twice. He looks down at the football in front of him and visualizes a line extending to … Continue reading Hitting a field goal in VR
With Dispatch, Here Be Dragons pushes narrative VR storytelling in bold new directions As virtual reality takes its trip through the hype cycle of technology adoption, I keep returning to the early days of film as a corollary for the … Continue reading Dispatching stories
Oculus Whiffed A year and a half was how long Kenny Moore expected to serve in Maine State Prison when he was found guilty of aggravated assault, burglary, and theft as a teenager. He spent the next two decades in … Continue reading VR used for bad
Facing down PTSD “We tell patients it’s going to get harder before it gets easier. We’re not bullshitting anybody,” says Dr Albert ‘Skip’ Rizzo on the phone from his base at the University of Southern California. Rizzo is at the … Continue reading Sights and sounds exposure therapy
The Next Frontier for Virtual Reality: Courtrooms Twenty-five years ago, a California jury took a brave leap into the future by donning headsets to watch a virtual reality-like accident reconstruction scene. The three-dimensional defense presentation lacked interactivity, a current hallmark … Continue reading Changing the practice of law
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 