SocialVR app AltspaceVR shuts down

I’m almost in tears. I opened twitter to say something stupid to the VR community when a post on my timeline completely froze me. Altspace VR is closing. If you don’t know what Altspace VR was… well, it has been the first social VR experience out there. It was innovative and got a lot of […]

Will Apple ARKit disrupt the AR/VR market?

Yesterday I was just relaxing on facebook after lunch, watching funny cats GIFs… …when suddenly I stumbled upon a Robert Scoble’s post Reading this sentence I quite got shocked. If you don’t know who Robert Scoble is… well, he’s a smart AR/VR journalist and innovator… and if someone smart makes a bold announcement, well, I’m […]

Amaze inter-review: an awesome platform for awesome VR videos

I have a new girlfriend: she is blonde, beautiful and dances very well. There’s only a problem: she still doesn’t know who I am. It’s all started when Shawn Jung, a member of the Amaze team, contacted me to review their media and entertainment platform. I was like “Oh, another 360 videos thing, yeah, interesting… […]

Oculus reduces Virtual Reality entry cost and this is great for adoption

Remember the times where Oculus was used to promise a cheap price for the Rift so that everyone could experience virtual reality? Well, Pepperidge Farm remembers… and after what has happened in the last days, seems that Zuckerberg has a great memory, too. When the Rift CV1 came out, we where all expecting a price […]

First professional VR cinema opens in Beijing

While Virtual Reality renaissance has started in the US and the US are the most forefront country in VR development, we are all curious about what happens in China, that is the second biggest economy of the world. VR in China is becoming huge, but it is growing very differently than here: since Chinese people […]

Virtual Reality isn’t a fad, it will succeed at the right time

Virtual reality and Augmented reality are two of the buzz words of the moment. These technologies are forecasted to become the next technological revolution: according to many experts we are in a moment of disruption, exactly as we were when the first smartphone has been released. A lot of startups are growing inside this VR […]