Last week has finished with a big boom for virtual reality: at Google I/O conference, Google has announced its upcoming Standalone headsets. In this post I’ll try to describe all the main information about this and all other AR/VR news they’ve announced… information that are splattered around dozens of posts around the web and that […]
Since when virtual reality started this revolution thanks to Palmer Luckey Kickstarter campaign, we all started appreciating how much it is cool because it can trigger us lots of emotions or makes us live amazing adventures. The problem is that these experiences are all beautiful-enough, but no one makes us say “BAM! This is what […]
I arrived late at the party, but in the end I managed to play a bit with Robo Recall, the game everyone was talking about! Robo Recall has been developed by Epic Studios, using Oculus money. Oculus has completely funded the project and as Road To VR has estimated, it has spent something like 4 […]
Today I just want to start a new category of blog posts: my devlog. I’ll keep you updated about a little project I’m doing and describe you the challenges I’m facing. It’s just an experiment that I’m doing for a month or so… you (my lovely readers) will tell me if you like this and […]
I got in touch with Will Stackable of Springboard VR, a company building a dedicated platform for VR arcades. He got my interest telling me “We’re now the largest arcade platform outside of Asia… and we’re talking with innovative companies like ADVR to figure out how to connect the dots between arcade customers and major […]
One month ago, Canadian studio The Campfire Union Inc has launched Flipside Studio, a solution to create animated shows in VR. The following trailer explains almost everything about this project, so… have a look at it! As Lesley Klassen, CEO and co-founder of the company says: Flipside Studio transforms a standard PC-based VR setup, such […]
VR is at the moment not that disabled-friendly: it is all focused on room scaling, locomotion methods and natural interactions with hands. For most of us this is great, since it enables us to do in VR what we can do in real life. But what about people that can’t do these things in real […]
Today I just want to tell you some shower thoughts that came to my mind while I was talking with Michela, an universtity student that is making research on the Samsung Gear VR market. She made some questions to me about the mobile headsets and their market… and this took me to question the future […]
Today I want to review a little gem that you can find on SteamVR marketplace: The Price of Freedom. The Price of Freedom is a short experience made by Construct Studio, a little american indie studio. It is a little adventure where you are a CIA agent and you have to kill a person to […]
We were all expecting some announcement by Microsoft at its annual Build conference and the Redmond company has not disappointed us: it has revealed price, availability and controllers for their cheap Windows 10 VR headsets. If you don’t remember what these cheap headsets are and you’re too lazy to click the above link, well, Microsoft […]
One of the reasons my VR startup failed has been because we relied on Kinect to perform full body tracking, but Kinect has start dying in 2015 and now the project is something like a zombie. We were looking for a substitute and we put our trust on a little startup called Orbbec, who started […]
