No Headset? A VR Space Like Star Trek’s “Holodeck” May Soon Become Reality San Jose holographic display startup Light Field Lab and LA graphics company OTOY, which focuses on cloud-based high-end graphics, have officially announced a partnership that is “making … Continue reading The Star Trek universe
Keeping simulator sickness down “Sickness induced by Virtual Reality (VR) devices poses a genuine threat to the viability of this new technology and its potential products.” This was written by Eugenia Kolasinski for her doctoral thesis at the University of … Continue reading Moving in immersive spaces
Oculus Job Listing Reveals Interest in Creating Location-based VR Games Oculus published a job listing recently that could mean the company is finally looking to enter the VR arcade space. The listing, which calls for a ‘Producer of location based … Continue reading Across networks of arcades
See How This Company Uses Virtual Reality To Change Patient Healthcare By 2017, Markets and Markets reported that the VR healthcare market had grown to $976 million from $525 million in 2012. And, according to Grand View Research, the VR … Continue reading How to improve the patient experience
Beyond Deep Fakes Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a way to automatically transform the content of one video into the style of another, making it possible to transfer the facial expressions of comedian John Oliver to those of … Continue reading Transferring videos
New water simulation captures small details even in large scenes When designers select a method for simulating water and waves, they have to choose either fast computation or realistic effects; state-of-the-art methods are only able to optimize one or the … Continue reading The water effect
Virtual Reality tricks the brain into adopting bionic body parts Watching Star Wars recently, I got to thinking about Luke Skywalker’s bionic hand. As robots become increasingly dexterous and tactile sensors become smaller and more capable, the essential components of … Continue reading Bionic limbs
How Two Bit Circus Is Truning Its 21st Century Carnival Into One Giant Game Throw out the term “amusement park,” and it conjures up visions of roller coasters and rides and costumed characters in massive, franchise-themed lands. But inside a … Continue reading The micro-amusement park
How Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Are Opening Doors in Luxury Real Estate When virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) entered the real estate industry a few years ago, there was plenty of uncertainty. How would the technology change … Continue reading Immersive real estate
Will Virtual Reality Change the Design World? While hundreds of tech firms are broadening their virtual (and augmented) reality footprints—think Google’s omnipotent Street View and Facebook’s recent unveiling of an Oculus Half Dome headset prototype—the truth is that the VR … Continue reading The blackout of the outside world
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 