Alibaba Wants You To Shop in Virtual Reality You’ll soon shop for your next outfit in VR. Not satisfied with disrupting China’s financial transaction industry, the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba now wants to enable consumers to purchase almost anything in … Continue reading The new Chinese shopping experience
Here’s What the World’s First Free-Form 3-D-Printed House Looks Like Design consultancy WATG’s Urban Architecture Studio recently won first prize for the Freeform Home Design Challenge, a competition to design the world’s first free-form 3-D-printed house. Sponsored by Chattanooga, Tennessee–based … Continue reading How to design a 3-D-printed house
Emerging Technology in Sport Sports are changing rapidly with the modern developments in technology. Cheaper manufacturing, more compact designs and rapid improvements have led to a boom in “wearables”, monitoring and other products that are integrated in everything from solo … Continue reading How VR is changing NBA
Strange sensations: HTC’s brave new virtual world The first thing I notice is a feeling of weight on my face. Followed by a sensation of standing in boundless space. A monochrome 360-degree vanishing-point vista winks into view. I look around, … Continue reading The HTC Vive way to VR
Inside the Artificial Universe That Creates Itself Every particle in the universe is accounted for. The precise shape and position of every blade of grass on every planet has been calculated. Every snowflake and every raindrop has been numbered. On … Continue reading The self-generating virtual world
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
Tech journalism time capsule: the wonderful world of 1996 computing I write a decent amount about old technology for The Verge, which means wading through reams of newspaper scans, early web pages, and magazine back issues. It also means finding … Continue reading Going back to the ’90s
Inside USC’s crazy experimental VR lab Even by virtual reality’s usual standards, the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies is taking things a little over the top. “You’re gonna see this drone fly up,” warns Todd Richmond, IEEE … Continue reading Our virtual future in the lab
Why virtual reality could be the future of viewing photographs Years from now, we might view today’s process of viewing photographs — by flipping through individual still photos that were printed out at the corner drugstore, or scrolling through 2D … Continue reading Using the Oculus VR to explore photos
I tried to return Maria Sharapova’s 110 MPH serve — in virtual reality A few weeks ago, professional tennis player Maria Sharapova rolled up to a low-key American Express event held on a Manhattan pier for VIP cardmembers and issued … Continue reading How to play with professional tennis players
LAVREB Laboratory of Virtual Reality and Economic Behavior 