Virtual Reality

iPhones
12
Sep
2017

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…

24
Oct
2016

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…

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…

26
Sep
2015

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…

21
Sep
2015

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…

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,…

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…