VR is at the moment not that disabled-friendly: it is all focused on room scaling, locomotion methods and natural interactions with hands. For most of us this is great, since it enables us to do in VR what we can do in real life. But what about people that can’t do these things in real […]
Today I just want to tell you some shower thoughts that came to my mind while I was talking with Michela, an universtity student that is making research on the Samsung Gear VR market. She made some questions to me about the mobile headsets and their market… and this took me to question the future […]
Today I want to review a little gem that you can find on SteamVR marketplace: The Price of Freedom. The Price of Freedom is a short experience made by Construct Studio, a little american indie studio. It is a little adventure where you are a CIA agent and you have to kill a person to […]
We were all expecting some announcement by Microsoft at its annual Build conference and the Redmond company has not disappointed us: it has revealed price, availability and controllers for their cheap Windows 10 VR headsets. If you don’t remember what these cheap headsets are and you’re too lazy to click the above link, well, Microsoft […]
One of the reasons my VR startup failed has been because we relied on Kinect to perform full body tracking, but Kinect has start dying in 2015 and now the project is something like a zombie. We were looking for a substitute and we put our trust on a little startup called Orbbec, who started […]
Today I’ll host here a guest post by Mark Metry of VU Dream, a company that is very active in spreading the world about VR: they sell VR headsets and also have a very insightful blog. I’m sure you’ve already read some awesome posts made by them (if not… why??). I think that his post […]
Today I’ve tested Master Shot VR, a VR shooting game that will be available as Steam Early Access on May, 12th. The game has very simple mechanics: you are inside a shooting center and you have to shoot at things 🙂 . In the training stage you’re like in a desert and you have to […]
At VRLA Unity CEO John Riccitiello expressed his opinion about virtual reality market in the future… he has been very realistic and so I loved what he said. The reason for so much love is that he showcased a cold analysis on the VR market, based on his expertise and the numbers owned by Unity, […]
In the last times, I found myself arguing a bit on online communities with people sharing videos of their babies wearing Vive or Oculus headsets and having funny reactions. While the videos are surely amusing, I’m worried about little kids using VR and I often comment that… and usually people answer me that there’s no […]
In these days I’ve completely formatted my VR PC. The reason? A damn blue screen of death loop. My friend Max was playing with Robo Recall and having a lot of fun. Then suddenly he started having some audio issues, so after a while I decided to restart my PC. Well, blue screen of death. […]
In my last post I told you that my startup has just shut down. If you don’t know it, its name was Immotionar: our purpose was to offer full body virtual reality to every kind of headsets, mixing VR HMD with body tracking sensors like Microsoft Kinects. An innovative product, that has failed nonetheless. With […]
