Oculus Rift
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…