Google is patenting a pair of motorized VR roller skates Do you want to really, physically walk around in virtual reality? Is an omnidirectional treadmill too bulky for your taste? A giant hamster ball too confining? Redirected walking too trippy? … Continue reading Rolling on skates
VR is leading us into the next generation of sports media The way we watch sports is changing, and it’s leading us into the next generation of media consumption. That may seem like an abstract concept. What’s next when we … Continue reading Consensual hallucination
Immersive tech gets sports fans into their favorite game … literally Professional sports have long been far ahead in embracing immersive technology when compared to the likes of amusement parks, casinos, and movie theaters. The reasons are simple: sports fans … Continue reading Beyond the arena
Why Intel Is Betting on eSports and Virtual Reality Near the back of the EGX Expo hall, two players battle it out over a game of Hearthstone. Watching their moves on two large screens is a crowd of maybe 40 … Continue reading Attendees in the arena
TeachAids & Stanford University Debut VR Concussion Education Program The award-winning social venture turns its attention to youth athletes with a research-based VR experience dedicated to concussion awareness. “In the next 10 years, the CDC estimates that over 20 million … Continue reading Immersive brain injuries
Virtual Reality Is Leading Sports-Tech Wave The ways in which we are able to follow sports have evolved over the years. Radio was the connection between sports and the fans for many years, especially with baseball. The advent of television … Continue reading The future of sport media
All 64 World Cup Games Will Be Seen On Virtual Reality For First Time Ever On Telemundo App Telemundo continues to set the stage to make its debut as the new Spanish-language TV home of the World Cup. The network … Continue reading The immersive World Cup
Augmented reality — the next wave of reporting The following is based on a workshop I did at the Associated Press a few weeks ago, and comments from a Matter.vc panel I spoke on last month. While a number of media outlets … Continue reading Reporting on world issues
Virtual reality and augmented reality in broadcasting With Facebook’s acquisition of Virtual Reality (VR) headset maker Oculus in 2014, Google’s experimental Cardboard viewer, and Microsoft’s HoloLens Augmented Reality (AR) system, technologies that have long been so expensive that they rarely … Continue reading Trasforming live sport
Putting the ‘real’ into virtual reality: the teams building virtual worlds on HTC Vive Heading to the HTC Vive booth at MWC 2018 was a headset-wearing eye opener for anyone that’s followed the company and its journey into virtual reality. … Continue reading Coming into focus
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 