The Oculus Rift is one of many Virtual Reality devices currently on the market, and with the wide variety of VR devices on the market, it may be difficult to see the differences and decide which is the best fit for you. With its wide field of view, the Oculus Rift immerses users into an amazing world outside of their…
In 2012, Palmer Luckey created a Kick-starter campaign to raise money for what would become the Oculus Rift. Shortly thereafter in 2014, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for an impressive $2 billion. This VR device can track facial expressions to display on a virtual avatar, has wireless hand controllers to mimic movement, and allows for a 360 degree perspective. Several different kinds…
Virtual Reality is still fairly new to the market, but has a bright future ahead. In a US-based survey regarding awareness of VR, 92% of respondents mentioned said they are aware of the term “Virtual Reality.” Additionally, only 4% of respondents between the ages of 14 and 19 said they have no interest in VR. Though the vast majority are…
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, though still fairly new to the market, both have a bright future ahead of them. While VR and AR do seem like one in the same, there are many differences between the two. Virtual Reality fully immerses the user into a 360 degree, 3D realm, taking them into a completely new reality. Currently, many of…
It is obvious that Virtual Reality is shaping the world of entertainment; but VR developers have more broad goals, which are determined to shape our lives in greater ways and in a variety of sectors including: education, tourism, construction, social networking, research and more. Timefire Media is in the midst of developing a Virtual Reality City that allows users to…
Though virtual reality has been around for some time, it is just beginning to take the technology industry by storm. What was a $100 million industry just two years ago is projected to grow to $5.2 billion by 2018. This spike in recent growth can be attributed to the strides technology has made recently: lightweight, high resolution cellphones and motion…
Virtual Reality is a fast growing technology, however it’s actually been around for about 75 years! A comparison of the 1939 View Master and the 2015 HTC Vive shows how far the technology has come in that time. Gone are the days of clicking through images of the Grand Canyon on a cardboard disk in our View Master; current virtual…
It seems as if every day there are new developments in the world of virtual reality; and each is more impressive than the last. It was only a few weeks ago that we saw the debut of the Oculus Social App, and recently Altspace VR has become available on the Samsung Gear VR and it is the first step in…
Advertising and marketing professionals looking to associate their brand with the excitement and promise of new technologies are going to want to take note of a comprehensive Virtual Reality Consumer Sentiment Survey of over 2,000 consumers that was recently conducted by Touchstone Research and Greenlight VR. When those who had experienced virtual reality (22% of the sample) were asked to…
December 30th 2015, the day had finally arrived; I had just received a Samsung Galaxy S6 for Christmas; one of four phones compatible with the Samsung Gear, the other three phones being: Galaxy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge, and Galaxy S6 edge+. Eager to try out this new and exciting technology the first thing I did was open it and…