Virtual reality takes local seniors on adventures, improves emotional well-being Aging can be a depressing and isolating experience — but lately the mood seems to be shifting for a group of residents at senior living provider Ebenezer Minneapolis. They’ve been … Continue reading Looking for adventure
Ideology Is the Original Augmented Reality Released in July 2016, Pokémon Go is a location-based, augmented-reality game for mobile devices, typically played on mobile phones; players use the device’s GPS and camera to capture, battle, and train virtual creatures (“Pokémon”) … Continue reading Fill the gap
What to expect when Magic Leap’s headset launches Magic Leap is finally releasing a developer version of its augmented reality system next year. The company has promised an SDK in early 2018 (three years later), to be followed by the … Continue reading Revolutionizing augmented reality
4 surprising ways augmented reality will revolutionize your life An AR system could also communicate with your car’s electronics and sensors so it would know how much fuel you have left, your speed, and your braking distance. It could also … Continue reading Work, play, drive, and more
Designing Spaces in VR with TrueScale TrueScale is a new interior design tool that simultaneously creates 2D floor plans, 3D mockups, and full room-scale environments in VR. Developed in partnership between Vive Studios and the developers at Immersion. The idea … Continue reading Create interiors
How Tate Modern rebuilt the Paris studio of a doomed artist, using VR Once they’ve got most of the way around Tate Modern’s new exhibition of works by Amedeo Modigliani, visitors can make a quick visit to the artist’s last … Continue reading The turbulent life of Amedeo Modigliani
Accenture aims to take AR and VR commerce into the mainstream Virtual reality may be stalled with consumers, but it might be catching on with enterprises. That’s one of the messages delivered recently by the “extended reality” team at Accenture, … Continue reading Vcommerce
NYX cosmetics rolling out VR experience Beauty as a sector has been on the forefront of in-store technology experiences. That being said, the big technology focus for beauty retailers in the past has been augmented reality, not virtual per se. … Continue reading The impossibly professional makeup
The new reality of mobile AR and computer vision venture capital Mobile AR from Apple (ARKit), Google (ARCore) and Facebook (Camera Effects) and computer vision/machine learning (CV/ML) are focusing the minds and wallets of VCs in Silicon Valley, China and … Continue reading Frontier tech investments
Learning a language in VR is less embarrassing than IRL Will virtual reality help you learn a language more quickly? Or will it simply replace your memory? VR is the ultimate medium for delivering what is known as “experiential learning.” … Continue reading Bringing VR into learning routines
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 