NVIDIA talks about RTX 2080 graphics cards and virtual reality

When NVIDIA announced the RTX 2080 graphics cards, I was there. I watched Jensen Huang announcing the new graphics cards with amazing features like real-time raytracing and variable rate shading. Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind, especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard […]

A journey in some interesting Italian VR startups at Milan Games Week 2018: AnotheReality, Beyond The Gate and many more!

This Saturday I have been to the Milano Games Week. If you don’t know what it is, I can describe it as the little Italian brother of the Gamescom: it is much smaller, but it features anyway a lot of games, both from popular major players and from indies. I went there to try some […]

Vive Immersive Labs experiment demonstrates that VR can really help in learning a new language

Some weeks ago I interviewed Mr. Chen of Vive Immersive Labs regarding the interesting research that HTC is conducting regarding the applications of virtual reality. Today, thanks to Mr. Michael Cao of Vive Immersive Labs, I got to know the details of another experiment regarding another amazing use of VR: help in learning a new […]

Varjo talks with me about its human eye resolution VR headset and its mixed reality add-on (that will be available at AWE 2019)

Varjo. If you follow the evolutions of the virtual reality ecosystem, for sure you know this name: it is a Finnish startup working on developing a headset that features human-eye resolution. They took an approach similar to foveated rendering, but actually developed in an original way. Instead of downgrading the areas of the screen that […]

Gamescom 2018 Day 3: Icaros made me exercise with fun in VR, Cybershoes made me walk in VR while seated and much more

Today has been my last day at Gamescom. It has been a long and interesting ride, where I tried cool innovative virtual reality hardware and I met awesome people. It has been really tiresome, but I loved it. This is the summary of this last day, that has been full of surprises. (If you haven’t […]

Gamescom 2018 Day 2: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti video, Ubisoft believes in VR and much more

Welcome to my post about the second day I’ve spent here at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany (you can read the summary of the previous ones here and here). Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished […]

Gamescom 2018 Day 1: World of Tanks VR, ThermoReal lets you feel hot and cold in VR, and much more

The Gamescom has officially begun, at least for us of the press. It’s strange for me to say the word “press”: I still feel like a random guy that writes random words about his passion on a public website, but ehi, for someone I’m a member of the media. And for sure I won’t try […]

HTC Immersive Labs shows that VR can already benefit various sectors of our lives

During my Chinese adventure, in the period that I was leaving Shanghai to go to Chengdu to watch pandas, I had the opportunity to interview via WeChat Qiyong Chen, one of the people leading the Virtual Reality R&D experiments at HTC Immersive Labs. I wanted to ask him about HTC’s research on the use of […]