Tag: Virtual
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Virtual Britain – The United Kingdoms Twin, A Digital Vision
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Get Ready For Darth VadeR
The company founded by George Lucas; Industrial Light & Magic, have announced that their immersive entertainment division are looking to writer David S Goyer (Batman begins & Man of steel) for inspiration. ILM’s Xlab team have stunned the Star Wars fans into silence when they announced that the script he will be working on […]
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Will An Apple VR Device Come Too Late?
With virtual reality and augmented reality soon set to be the top new sector in wearable tech, it’s a surprise that Apple haven’t yet entered the race. Across the globe their major competitors all seem to have a device on the way- various models of headset are at various stages of development and testing, some […]
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Build 2015: Microsoft HoloLens Demoed
Microsoft’s big virtual reality device HoloLens was also shown at the Build 2015 conference recently. The headset paints holograms in three dimensions in front of the wearer’s eyes. It does sound similar to augmented reality, but interestingly HoloLens seems to use holograms to bridge the gap between augmented and virtual reality, being neither one or […]
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VR App ‘Saves’ People For Memorial
There are a tremendous amount of uses for virtual reality that we’re only just discovering. Facebook is giving the users to share video using virtual reality, and app developers across the world are already their own forays into the technology. VR allows objects to be shown much more clearly than on a display, giving the […]
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AR And VR To Hit $150 Billion By 2020
Augmented and Virtual Reality devices are starting to saturate the market – both technologies have been predicted to take the market by storm by the year 2020. According to Tim Merel, the managing director of digital M&A firm Digi-Capital , the A/V Reality market may be worth $150 billion dollars at that point in time. Products […]
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Valve Offering Vive VR Developer Kits Free
Valve are working with HTC to bring their own Vive VR headset onto the market in direct competition with Oculus Rift. The headset will offer competitive features and of course work with HTC devices as well as Valve’s Steam. However, the difference between Vive and Rift is a matter of price – a large sum […]
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Flight simulator 737-800 experience review
If you are one of those people who sometimes fantasizes that you are on a plane and a stewardess runs through the cabin and shouts: “Can anyone fly a plane?” …..then this flight simulator 737-800 experience review is for you. We, two GH executives, visited Virtual Aerospace for a 2 hour experience on the Boeing […]
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HTC and Valve Reveal Vive VR Headset
We’re not usually blown away by products, but when we saw Valve’s latest designs for the Steam Controller we were quite stunned. The secretive company has already developed an alternative to thumb sticks in the form of haptic sensor pads so minute and accurate they can also function as speakers, but behind the scenes Valve […]
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No Desktop On 7 Inch Windows 10 Tablets
WIndows 10 users, as well as Windows 8.1 users, should be familiar with the ability to access the desktop in the same way as you did on older versions of Windows. The traditional face of Windows PCs is set to appear on the newer of the two, seamlessly integrated between desktop PCs and mobile devices. […]
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Samsung Gear VR Priced
Virtual reality is this year’s secondary ‘big thing’ behind the new wave of smart wearable watches, and various gadget creators are already making their mark on this cutting edge new technology area. We’ve seen Google Glass, Sony’s Smart Glasses and also their Project Morpheus… and of course the exciting and highly experimental Oculus Rift. Of […]
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BBC and Sky Trial Virtual Reality TV
TV broadcasters are always trying to remain at the bleeding edge of technology in the TV sector. Pioneers of HD and high resolution content and programming, such as Planet Earth HD, set the bar for high quality content in the last decade, but these days it’s about bringing your audience closer to the action with […]