One of the most interesting people that I have met at Vive Ecosystem Conference has been Naoki Yamaguchi (山口 直樹), the CVO (Chief Virtual Officer) of Japanese startup Virtual Cast. Virtual Cast is a solution that lets you be a Vtuber, that is a Virtual youtuber. You can put your headset on and see yourself […]
Today I want to start a new column on this blog dedicated to storytelling virtual reality content from VeeR video platform, with reviews and interviews regarding VR movies and videos. As a full disclaimer, there will be no monetary compensation for these posts. VeeR will provide me the material necessary to write some posts and […]
I was browsing the “[GDI] Virtual Reality” group on facebook, and I noticed that someone told that Oculus now allows for referral codes. I was like “yeah, I know, they are available since a lot, but they are a US-only feature” and was about to pass on. But then, I remembered that after I updated […]
Some weeks ago, Oculus has announced that it has finally released the new avateering system that had been announced at Oculus Connect 5. Yesterday I have finally been able to try it and I want to give you some impressions on mine about it… also because I have found no hands-on articles on the other […]
Sometimes it happens that when I launch my Rift, an error saying that “an Oculus update may not have installed correctly” pops up… and after I close it, everything seems to work perfectly. Today, I finally understood what it means and I want to explain this to you, in case you find yourself in my […]
I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 so that to make it ready for launch on the Vive Focus Plus, when something made me panic: no button on the controllers was working! I wrote to HTC and in the end, I managed to someway solve the […]
In this chapter about my experience at VEC, I will give you my hands-on impressions about some gadgets I’ve tried there. Unluckily, I have been so busy with the presentation and the networking, that I have been able only to try only few things… next time I will try to organize my time better! Vive […]
One week ago, I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China. It is a very important event for VR, but since it is in China, many famous Western VR journalists are not going there because of the big distance and so there is a little mystery about how this event actually is. But […]
I work in virtual reality since 2014, when I have fallen in love with this technology after having tried an Oculus DK2. In these years, I have always been an advocate for it, saying that it will be pervasive for our lives in 5-10 years, and I have fought against all those people saying that […]
Valve has finally teased its upcoming headset: the Valve Index. As always in the typical Valve style, it has not made it with some big reveal during an event, but it has just opened a dedicated page on its website, that you can access here. The only official pieces of information provided are the above […]
Yesterday for the first time I have attended the Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China! I have been there as a speaker, content maker and as a blogger, so it has really been a crazy and interesting experience for me. I want to tell you everything that has happened there, so that you can feel […]
