Epic Games announced this morning that they’ve acquired Serbia-based 3Lateral, a game studio focused on designing more realistic computer-generated human characters. The team of 60+ will be continuing their work with existing partners and maintaining their presence in Serbia. 3Lateral founder Vladimir Mastilovic will lead Epic Games’ worldwide digital humans efforts, the company says. No details […]
View More Epic Games buys 3Lateral, maker of super-realistic ‘digital humans’Category: Virtual Reality
How Lyft envisions bringing VR and AR to your ride
Lyft is exploring ways to integrate virtual reality and augmented reality into your Lyft rides, according to a couple of patent applications TechCrunch came across today. The first, filed in July 2017, is for “providing a virtual reality transportation experience” that would respond to real-world forces and events that happen during your ride, like sudden […]
View More How Lyft envisions bringing VR and AR to your rideFacebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead to take over Portal team
Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google’s entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware. Ryan Cairns comes aboard after 12 years at Google where he was most recently the engineering lead for a team of over 500 people tackling AR/VR at the big G, including Daydream, Lens and ARCore, according to his LinkedIn. Excited […]
View More Facebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead to take over Portal teamFacebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead to take over Portal team
Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google’s entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware. Ryan Cairns comes aboard after 12 years at Google where he was most recently the engineering lead for a team of over 500 people tackling AR/VR at the big G, including Daydream, Lens and ARCore, according to his LinkedIn. Excited […]
View More Facebook poaches Google’s AR/VR engineering lead to take over Portal teamHow the new VR screen could end the smartphone
The only way to get more information from a smartphone screen is to bring the pixels closer to our eyes, with the device somehow mounted on our heads rather than holding it in our hands.
View More How the new VR screen could end the smartphoneFor AR/VR 2.0 to live, AR/VR 1.0 must die
The future of AR/VR could be bright, but only if it moves beyond where it is today. Let’s look at where we are today, where we’re heading tomorrow and some of the changes needed to get us there.
View More For AR/VR 2.0 to live, AR/VR 1.0 must dieWoman tries VR for the first time and gets a little too immersed
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If you die in VR, you die in real life, right?
Obviously not — but this video shows that at times virtual reality can get a little too real.
Watch what happens when a group attempts to teach their friend how to use VR controls for the first time. She accidentally drops a virtual grenade in-game, and let’s just say it causes her some real-world panic.
You’ll want to watch to the end, trust us. Read more…
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Daily Crunch: The age of quantum computing is here
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. IBM unveils its first commercial quantum computer The 20-qubit system combines the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a […]
View More Daily Crunch: The age of quantum computing is hereChina’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasses
A former Magic Leap engineer believes the problem with most consumer-facing augmented headsets on the market is their bulky size. “You wouldn’t want to wear them for more than one hour,” Xu Chi, founder and chief executive officer of Nreal told me as he put on a bright orange headgear that looked just like plastic Ray-Ban […]
View More China’s Nreal raises $15M to shrink augmented headsets to size of sunglasseseYs3D and Lucid are teaming to release a handheld 3D camera
Virtual reality is — as many have learned the hard way — nothing without content. There are a number of solutions on the market at present, but many are unweildy and/or prohibitively expensive for many content creators. Taiwanese 3D imaging company eYs3D announced this week that it’s teaming with Lucid to create the Axis, a […]
View More eYs3D and Lucid are teaming to release a handheld 3D cameraHTC’s new Vive Pro Eye headset features built-in eye tracking
HTC’s best VR headset just got a lot more exciting.
The company just unveiled a new Vive Pro Eye headset, which has eye tracking features built directly in, eliminating the need for external controllers.
Instead of using hand controllers to nav…
HTC’s next consumer virtual reality headset is the first PC VR hybrid
Vive has seemed to be devoting a lot of attention to the enterprise, but the company teased their new consumer VR headset called the Vive Cosmos at CES today. The positionally-tracked headset boasts tracked hand controllers and can be interestingly be powered via PC or “other methods,” making it the first in a new class […]
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