VR news around the world
The Void is the bigger then room size Virtual Reality experience that is going to be available for public later this year in Salt Lake City, USA. People can experience Raider of the Lost Ark Virtual Reality. Yes, Ready Player One is getting one step closer to real life.
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There’s no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team’s focus on adding this missing piece to an otherwise excellent mobile VR package.
Not that long ago there were many that were skeptical that, in the wake of the largely (and unsurprisingly) disappointing experiences offered by Google’s unashamedly low-rent Cardboard movement, that Samsung could pull off a substantially better experience with its Samsung Galaxy Note 4 powered mobile VR headset, the Gear VR. However, the combination of Oculus’ VR engineering prowess and Samsung’s proven industrial design expertise produced a so-called ‘Innovator Edition’ Gear VR that really did deliver a compelling VR experience.
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A great video by Goldman Sachs. Lots of money invested in VR and by many people. According to the article, the race for the next computing platform may be over. Heather Bellini of Goldman Sachs Research expects virtual and augmented reality to become an $80 billion market by 2025, roughly the size of the desktop PC market today. In this video, Bellini discusses how the technology has improved since earlier launch attempts and how it’s already transforming sectors like real estate, healthcare and education.