Yesterday, finally Elon Musk has detailed in a public event the work that its secretive BCI startup Neuralink has done in these two years of stealth mode. What has been announced there is astonishing and I want to discuss with you here what has been revealed, what I think about it and what are the […]
Virtuleap is for sure one of the most promising startups I have talked with in this 2019. I had the pleasure of talking with the CEO Amir Bozorgzadeh some weeks ago (sorry for the delay in publishing the article, Amir!) and I was astonished by his ambitious project, that is understanding the emotions of the […]
One of the most interesting encounters I had in my trip to Beijing has been with Dexta Robotics, the company behind the Dexmo force-feedback gloves. They have been so kind to set up a demo just for me in Beijing (the company is from Shenzhen) to let me try their product and have a chat […]
Last post about my experience at Sandbox Immersive Festival! (If you lost the other ones, you can find them at these links: episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4, episode 5). Today I will talk to you about other 4 experiences: Mandala, that has been one of my favorite installations; Andy’s World, that let […]
I’m in Italy again and here in these days, it is damn hot and wet. I’m hoping to attend a VR event in the North Pole, so that I can feel some cold again. This week in XR has been quite cold instead, and there have not been many interesting news. Anyway, it has not been […]
In today’s recap of my favorite experiences of Sandbox Immersive Festival, I will talk you about Baobab Studios‘s latest creation Bonfire, the cute Ello Echo, the harsh Home After War and the trippy Ayahuasca! If you are into immersive storytelling, I’m sure you will love these experiences… Bonfire Bonfire is a funny story by Baobab […]
In Beijing, I have visited again my friends of 7Invensun, one of the worldwide leaders in eye tracking technologies. During my first visit, they showed me some cool prototypes: a prototypical eye tracking add-on for HoloLens and a prototypical Vive Focus with embedded eye tracking. This time, they showed me a full roster of eye […]
I’ve returned to Italy, but there is still so much I have to tell you about the Sandbox Immersive Festival in Qingdao! Are you ready for some new reviews? Spheres I know the name “Spheres” since a lot of time. This experience created some buzz because it has been the first virtual reality storytelling experience […]
At VEC 2019 HTC announced the “6DOF Lite” mode for Viveport Video, promising the fact that we would have been able to watch standard 360 videos with the possibility of actually moving the head in the video. But… does it work? Is it good enough? Well, yesterday I’ve tried it at HTC China HQ in […]
Good morning everyone from Beijing! Here there is a beautiful sun and today I’m going to have a great day meeting some local VR companies! I will let you know soon about my adventures here… for now let’s just talk about the most important news of this week in AR and VR! Top news of […]
At Sandbox Immersive Festival, I have been able to try some interesting hardware solutions. I have already detailed in another post my impressions on the Pico Neo and the HP Reverb… in this one, I will talk about other hardware manufacturers. Veer Chair Popular VR videos streaming service VeeR is planning to enter the LBVR […]
