6 DOF Virtual reality standalone headsets are cool, but of course introduce some safety problems: how can you be sure that moving you aren’t going to stumble on a wall, on a cat or on your girlfriend? For this reason, headsets producers are working on solutions to show you some safety boundaries telling you where […]
HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event: I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. Three months […]
Last weekend I exploited the Echo Combat open beta weekend and I played Echo Combat for free together with my buddy Max. It has been an interesting experience, so I want to tell you about this new upcoming game.
It is the time of MWC Shanghai and HTC has showcased some very cool stuff. The Taiwanese company has made people see demos of the Vive Focus features showcased at the Vive Ecosystem Conference: Gesture Detection, VRidge streaming, etc… One of the features that were announced was the possibility to use your phone as the […]
In this period, I’m so lucky that I have on my desk two great 6 DOF standalone headsets that have been lent to me: the Lenovo Mirage Solo and the Vive Focus. Both headsets are able to track your position in space, to offer you a virtual reality where you can move potentially wherever you […]
On Friday, I’ve published on my social media channels a video where I showcased that I have been able to create an augmented reality app for the Vive Focus. I promised that today I would have shown you how I did it and so now I am here writing this article to keep my promise. […]
One of the biggest drawbacks of HTC Vive headsets with regard to Oculus Rift are the controllers: while Oculus Touch is ergonomic and can emulate the hands quite well, Vive has controllers that are quite big and are usable only as wands. To solve this issue, some time ago Valve announced it was producing a […]
As a blogger, I often need to show you the content of the headset I’m using to show you what I’m working on. In the last months, I’m using a lot the Vive Focus and so I often felt the need to shoot a video or take a picture inside this headset. Regarding the videos, […]
If you are a VR enthusiast, for sure in the last days you’ve found your social media feed full of videos and animations of people playing around with a cute cat in virtual reality using only their bare hands. This is because Leap Motion has announced its v4 version of the tracking runtime and with […]
Henry has been one of the first content that I’ve tried on my Oculus Rift CV1. It is the experience that I used to show to every person when I introduced him/her to virtual reality: no risk of motion sickness, amazing graphics, and lots of feelings. A great work by Oculus Story Studio, for sure. […]
The Oculus Go is one of the headsets of the moment: it is the first truly consumer-oriented VR-only device: it is easy to be used, it is cheap and it is (or will) available in the retail shops, so has all the potential to attract people that until now considered VR something too geek. For […]
