Virtual Reality Blog

Review: Stark Technologies Retina and Focus VR headsets Stark Technologies offers a range of VR headsets in the “sophisticated Google cardboard” category. I have recently received the Retina VR Headset and the Focus VR Headset from Stark to review. As an overview, here is an overview video from Stark that …

Still Plugging Away at Corporate Training Virtual Reality On January 8, 2018 Filament Games, posted a blog highlighting real uses of VR in corporate training. These corporate training virtual reality examples included: Farmers Insurance use of VR for claims adjusters. It’s hard to appreciate a situation you’ve never seen before, …

I just talk about human-machine-interface now I had a nice lunch with Booz Allen Hamilton’s Nirav Desai this week. We were catching up on all things technology. Then I asked him a question about whether a project was using AR or VR and he stopped me. “I just talk about …

2018 CES VR: Still Waiting for the Cool Once you are inside VR you forget how ridiculous you look to people in the real world. 2018 CES VR didn’t make this any better, in some ways, it made it worse. Contact CI’s haptic glove prototype looked like something right from …

Navigating the ethical and social impacts of VR Last December, Dan participated in panel titled ‘Navigating the ethical and social impacts of VR’ at VRX San Fransisco. This post includes the original panel copy and list of speakers, along with the audio of the session. Serious Insights thanks VRX for …

2016: The Year Virtual Reality Shifted Toward Reality I attended VRX in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. This business-oriented event was well-attended for a local event (in string of international events). Big sponsors, including Intel and AMD brought experiences to the floor, and top-notch speakers discussed business and entertainment …

The VR model problem VR has a problem. Much current content is simply 360-degree video. For those producing 360-video, I know the production of these experiences is anything but simple. That said, there is little complexity in video, which means the participant doesn’t play much more than observer. Perhaps a participant …

  Tech of the week This exoskeleton glove could let you feel the ‘shape’ of virtual reality, ExtremeTech Serious Insights Commentary: Although HTC and Oculus both offer controllers (Oculus later in 2016), neither works the way the hand works. Controllers will work well for gaming, but there is plenty of …

Serious Insights Virtual Reality Digest. August 25, 2016 NBC’s Rio 2016 Olympics VR Needs More Reality, Serious Insights. Featured in this week Pund-IT™ Weekly Review. NBC messed up their Rio Olympics coverage of women’s gymnastics, choosing to split the event into two halves that forced viewers to stay up well past the …

NBC’s Rio 2016 Olympics VR Needs More Reality NBC messed up their Rio Olympics coverage of women’s gymnastics, choosing to split the event into two halves that forced viewers to stay up well past the end of primetime to see the women compete. In the meantime viewers became waterlogged with endless swim …