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  • Screaming woman hints at the true potential of virtual reality

    04/25/2016 7:51:22 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 26 replies
    rocketnews.com ^ | 04/25/2016 | Matthew Humphries
    Virtual reality is a piece of tech that although drastically updated and re-introduced to the masses in 2016, probably won’t take-off properly for another year or two. It faces a few issues that will take time to overcome, namely cost and experiences. Virtual reality at the level of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is expensive, but that cost will come down as the kit gets cheaper to make and more people buy it. The lack of engaging experiences is simply down to the tech being so new and developers getting to grips with how best to use it. The video...
  • Oculus Acquires Surreal Vision To Bring The Real World To VR

    05/27/2015 4:55:39 AM PDT · by RoosterRedux · 53 replies
    techcrunch.com ^ | Darrell Etherington
    Since the Oculus Rift presents a completely enclosed headset with an entirely virtualized environment, the conditions required to make this perfectly emulate the outside real world are more stringent than with Microsoft’s system, where you’re literally seeing your surroundings at the same time an overlay is projected on top. Surreal Vision’s goal at Oculus is to perfectly continuously capture and reconstruct the outside world in the virtual environment, to the extent that a user wouldn’t be able to distinguish between the two experiences. Achieving that would mean telepresence on an entirely new scale; you could attend a meeting on Mars...