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How to make a VR headset with a pizza box, smartphone and $21 worth of tech
Google is bringing virtual reality to Android phones with cardboard — literally.
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Google Figured Out How To Turn Any Phone Into A Virtual Reality Headset For Next To Nothing
At the end of Google I/O, Google's annual developers conference on Wednesday, Android boss Sundar Pichai announced that audience members would be getting some swag. Among the takeaways: A piece of cardboard. Sure enough, when we left the auditorium, Google employees handed out pieces of cardboard.
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Google I/O Cardboard Demo
Each year at I/O, Google gives all of the developers in the audience a gift. Some years it's a tablet. Some years it's a laptop....
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Mozilla Firefox gets early Oculus Rift support
Mozilla Firefox gets early Oculus Rift support. First steps into web-based VR.
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Using the Oculus Rift to Find Your Next Car
Going to a car dealership is notoriously fraught with anxiety. In addition to some guy in a plaid jacket trying to upsell you on hubcaps, you never know if they're going to have the exact car you're looking for, with the right options, in the right color. How do you know if it's what you want if you can't see it with your own eyes? With this new tool for the Oculus Rift, that might not be a problem anymore.
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First Steps for VR on the Web - Vladimir Vukićević
There has been a lot of excitement around Virtual Reality recently, with good reason. Display devices such as the Oculus Rift and input devices such …
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Clever Oculus Project Lets You Live Your Life In Third Person
Ever wished you could tap the “Change Camera View” button in real life to switch to a third-person view? These guys made it happen. Sure, it requires the user to wear an Oculus Rift and a big ol’ dual camera rig built into a backpack — and sure, it’s probably only fun (and not nauseating) for about a minute. But it works!
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Why Virtual Reality Technology Will Blow Your Mind in 5 Years
Unless you’ve just woken up from a two year coma, you’ve probably heard a lot of hype about the virtual reality and the Oculus Rift — enough that you’re probably sick of it. Well, too bad, because I’m here to tell you, without hesitation, that the future of virtual reality is here now. It works, and it’s going to change the world. The official launch of the Rift is scheduled to drop sometime before the end of next year, and that’s just the start.
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Virtual Finger Enables Scientists to Navigate and Analyze 3D Images of Complex Biological Structures
Researchers pioneer a new way to digitally navigate 3D images of synapses and neurons.
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Doom co-creator John Romero skeptical of virtual reality “fad”
Id software cofounder John Carmack has probably been virtual reality's biggest booster in the wider game industry, championing the Oculus Rift long before he officially joined Oculus as chief technology officer last year (much to the chagrin of former employer ZeniMax). But fellow Id co-founder and Doom developer John Romero seems much more skeptical that the new wave of virtual reality headsets will really be as revolutionary as developers like Carmack seem to think.
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The Oculus Rift Made Me Believe I Could Fly
Yesterday, I flew over downtown San Francisco. I swooped past the Transamerica Pyramid, taking care not to get speared, and winged it out towards the water. A heavy fog covered the bay, as usual, so I decided to head back into the city. I dove sharply, and the wind started whipping across my face. I slipped under the Bay Bridge, banked hard and promptly slammed into a warehouse. The wind died, and my screen went black.
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
In the wake of Facebook’s purchase of Oculus, can this revolutionary technology triumph anew?
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How virtual reality could put us into news stories
News reports often feel remote and irrelevant to our lives. But will that change with “immersive journalism” that places viewers in the centre of the story? News events across from distant countries can feel so far away, it is difficult to grasp their importance. But that may change as journalists create reports with virtual reality, so that viewers feel as if they are witnesses to the unfolding action.
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Elders React To Oculus Rift
Watch the Elders React to NEW TECHNOLOGY as they dive into virtual reality using the OCULUS RIFT.
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Samsung Unveils Curved Phone, Virtual Reality Headset
Samsung Electronics Co. released a smartphone with a display that curves around one side of the phone, along with a virtual reality headset, as it looks beyond the traditional handset to fend off competition.
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The Rise and Fall and Rise of Virtual Reality
In the wake of Facebook’s purchase of Oculus, can this revolutionary technology triumph anew?
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The Drive Toward Virtual Reality in the Commercial Entertainment Sector - Road to Virtual Reality
Alongside being a guest contributor to RTVR through his A Wider FOV article series; Kevin Williams is a well-known figure in the immersive entertainment community—steering his consultancy KWP, he also is the chairman of the Digital Out-of-Home Entertainment Network Association (DNA), and more recently he has been associated with the launch of the latest Head Mounted… Read the full article …
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Final Oculus Rift pricing, hardware teased as Gear VR reveals Oculus-ready interface
And even better: The final hardware design for the consumer version of the Oculus Rift is already locked in.
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The consumer-ready Oculus Rift will launch in public beta by summer 2015
The consumer-ready Oculus headset will be rolling out in a limited, Google Glass-esque launch next year.
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Japanese developer creates virtual breast-squeezing 'game' for the Oculus Rift
Although gadgets like the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR are promising to take virtual reality into the mainstream, there are still plenty of virtual ‘experiences’ that we hope never make it out the basements they were dreamt up in.