Virtual Reality
The Day That Everything Changed
ARKit and ARCore bring immersive computing at scale. What we will build? June 5, 2017 was the day that everything changed. During Apple’s 2017 World Wide Developer Conference, the company…
It Takes a Village
The W3C VR Workshop team. See us in full 360. After all this time, VR really is the Web’s Next Big Thing. A two-day workshop brought the Web’s best and brightest…
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…
Crossing the Rift
Just got back from Oculus Connect 2, the company’s 2nd annual developer conference. Maybe it’s the hangover, or maybe the contact high from spending three days with over 1,500 of…
Freedom
Virtual Reality app store censorship has claimed its first (non-porn) victim. As reported today in Ars Technica, VR journalist Dan Arthur created Ferguson Firsthand, a 3D recreation of the Michael…
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,…
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…