Virtual Reality Blog

Market Analysis: Solid Footing Continues to Elude 2019 XR Market 2019 XR Market: Overview Analysis Serious Insights stopped covering VR and AR aggressively a couple of years ago. It’s time to explore the 2019 XR market. As the nascent market continues to churn, several developments have occurred recently that reinforce …

The New Vulcan Inc. Holodome at Seattle’s MoPOP Offers Trippy View Into Future of VR Most virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (VR) experiences remain cumbersome. Although headsets have become lighter even as speed and resolution increases. But AR and VR participants still must don hardware for an experience. And …

CES 2019 Wrap-up: What We Learned and the Best of CES 2019 Last week at this time I was cool hunting the floor of the Las Vegas convention center in search of the questions Serious Insights found most pressing about the future of work. I managed to find a few …

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 …