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 […]

Lenqiy aims at fostering creativity in Chinese kids with virtual reality

When I was in China, the last company I visited in Shanghai has been Lenqiy. This is another Vive-X company working in the educational sector and that has given me interesting insights into the educational ecosystem in China, that confirmed what I have learned speaking with Langzou and Judao.

VR Waibao explains us the importance of VR remote collaboration tools

After my interviews with the VR educational companies Langzou and Judao, I’ve visited in Shanghai VR Waibao, that is working on a multipresence VR collaboration tool. There I’ve been received by Sam, a very smart man that has worked in the VR field for 20 years and that has spent various years of his life […]

Judao is a well established company offering VR education in China

During my trip to China, I’m visiting various VR startups in Shanghai and Beijing. In my previous article, I told you about a VR educational startup called Langzou, while today I’m introducing you another company in the same sector, called Judao. But while these companies work in the same field, they are completely different under […]

Langzou VR give us very interesting insights on XR education in China

As I’ve teased you in my previous blog post, in Shanghai I had the opportunity to speak with some interesting VR startups that are part of the Vive-X. This has been possible thanks to the kind support of Mister President and the whole HTC, that introduced me to these companies and let me visit them […]

7Invensun is a Chinese company that wants to disrupt the VR eye tracking sector

Eye tracking is, in my opinion, a technology that will disrupt completely the VR ecosystem, exactly as room-scale did with the first HTC Vive. The reason is that eye tracking will enable a lot of new features in VR, like for instance: Foveated rendering, that will let VR experiences have more polygons and VR devices […]