What VR Is Today — and What It Needs to Become
With full-immersive virtual reality headsets arriving in homes, HTC Vive (the system that has beat Facebook’s Oculus out of the gate due to Rift component shortages) realized that the best way to understand, appreciate and ultimately demand VR is to see it in action. Using green screen, his short video combines live footage of four players […]
Look Beyond Virtual Reality’s Hype… and Its Haters
Long-time virtual world-watcher Wagner James Au believes you’re not missing much if you’re missing the point of all the recent virtual reality hype. This is a recurring theme on his personal blog and the subject of a new Wall Street Journal op-ed piece, Virtual Second Thoughts, in which he writes: Business analysts who predict mass growth […]
Will Holoportation Revolutionize the Way We Work?
My love affair with the virtual office began more than a decade ago, but truly blossomed in 2007 when I became a partner at the marketing consultancy, crayon — a company (perhaps) most famous for having its headquarters in Second Life and helping companies like Coca-Cola navigate the virtual world. Beyond my love-hate relationship with that particular […]
