Oculus Rift

13
Aug
2016

Third Time’s the Charm

How VR and the Web Have Finally Converged — In My Lifetime Twenty five years after the first consumer VR crash, virtual reality is poised to upend human-computer interaction, the Internet has…

22
Jun
2015

The VR Headset Nobody is Building

Let’s just put this out there right now: the future of VR is mobile. Morpheus, Vive and Rift will make a big splash in the living room, but for sheer…

22
May
2015

A Growing Rift

While the tech press was busy fondling itself over porn as the week’s big VR story, a more significant development went largely unreported. In a recent blog post, Oculus Chief…

23
Jan
2015

The Right Stuff

Whoever controls the high ground of cyberspace controls the Metaverse. Anybody who doubts that virtual reality on the web is a good idea needs to start paying attention. Last Friday,…

08
Jan
2015

Fab Gear!

2014 was a banner year for WebGL and my wallet. The consulting business took off and I even started seeing royalty checks from my O’Reilly Books (beer money FTW)!So with…

24
Nov
2014

Takin’ It To The Streets

Back in September, I was privileged to attend the first Oculus Connect event, the developer conference for the flagship VR headset, and get a hands-on demo of the new developer…

18
Nov
2014

DIYVR

Patrick Buckley is a cowboy, in the best way.Seven weeks after seeing Cardboard VR at Google I/O, Buckley’s company DODOcase, makers of luxe iPad and Android tablet cases, had already…

12
Jun
2014

Virtually Anywhere

OR, how the Web will eat everything in its path – again. Now that WebGL is truly everywhere, the close-knit, doggedly persistent and technically masterful group of folks who made…

08
Jun
2013

VR and Coffee

Two great tastes that go great together… sort of.Check out my test drive of the Oculus Rift – my first foray into actual virtual reality in over a decade. I’m…