The dawn of a new era in VR Oculus Go is a standalone headset that rivals Oculus Rift in more than just its affordable price; the quality of VR on offer is nearly as good as that of a tethered VR headset. With impressive visuals, limited screen-door effect and a comfortable fit (one that’s front-heavy, to be sure), you’re in for loads of fun with the Oculus Go. Read...
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Virtual reality for Education is a site with very interesting information on VR resources and examples which most certainly helps to find your way through the VR /AR appliance within in this field. Quote from their site: Games Research Lab at Teachers College, Columbia University Hi! We’re a graduate-level research lab where we look into the affordances of games and gaming in learning. We are a part of the Communications, Media, and Learning Technologies Design Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. We focus on the development and design of games as well as the practical aspects of implementing them in educational...
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Google has announced that Seurat, its scene simplification tool for converting complex 3D scenes for VR display on mobile, is now free and open-source. Seurat works based on the assumption that VR is viewed from within a limited region. It takes RGBD images (images with depth information) from within that region and then reconstructs a textured 3D version of the scene with options for the poly-count, texture size, and fill rate. Find out more about this announcement on the Google Developers blog and download the code and plugins for Unity, Unreal and Maya from GitHub....
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MEPs vote for mass internet censorship In a vote today, 20 June, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament voted for a Copyright Directive, which includes measures to monitor and filter virtually all uploads to the internet. The Copyright Directive includes the controversial Article 13, which mandates the mass monitoring and censorship of internet uploads. The vote comes after widespread criticism of these measures and against the advice of civil society, of leading academics and universities, of research institutions, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression and even the inventors of the internet and...
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Augmented reality has gone through trial and error over the last few decades, unable to locate the proper niche market, regardless of the promising and profound technical boundaries it widens. The enrichment of sensory perception using video, graphic and text elements has found a home within the arts. Within Project ARM. Integrating augmented reality technology to a mobile device, either phone or tablet, Project ARM offers a new perception of arts when exploring museums. The possibility to add a layer within the experience of visiting a museum can be the trump card to live artworks or cultural sites – didactical and educational moments will thus...
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