• NEWS
    Will virtual reality finally break out in 2020?

    Maybe this will be the year virtual reality goes mainstream. If we say it enough times we’ll be right eventually, yeah? But it really does feel like 2020 might be the year. Four years into consumer virtual reality, I finally feel excited again. The hardware is great, and cheaper than ever before. The games are […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    GM Develops Augmented Reality Windshield

    The entire windshield is turned into a transparent display to highlighting landmarks, obstacles and road edges on the windshield in real-time. Such a system can point out to drivers potential hazards, such as a running animal, even in foggy or dark conditions, GM says. GM uses a special type of glass coated with red-emitting and […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Dear Reality releases two new immersive 3D audio plugins

    Plugin Alliance has partnered with Dear Reality to release dearVR pro and dearVR music. The announcement makes the German spatial audio technology and virtual acoustics software specialist’s audio algorithms available as two plugins, providing all the tools users need to create immersive 3D audio for VR and AR films, games, and video from within their […]

  • NEWS
    Foxconn Display Panel Factory in the US Takes One Step Closer to Reality

    HIGHLIGHTS The Wisconsin Assembly approved a $3 billion tax break for Foxconn Foxconn announced earlier it planned to invest $10 billion in Wisconsin It could eventually hire 13,000 workers at the Wisconsin facility The Wisconsin Assembly approved a $3 billion tax break Thursday with bipartisan support for Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group to build a massive display panel […]

  • Revealed: reality of life working in an Ivanka Trump clothing factory

    Workers at a factory that makes clothes for Ivanka Trump’s fashion label say they get verbally abused Photograph: John Lamparski/Getty Images The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trump’s label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Windows Mixed Reality Development Kits Now Available for Pre-Orders; Microsoft Unveils Motion Controllers

    In March this year, Microsoft announced that the company will start shipping development kits for Windows Mixed Reality (earlier called Windows Holographic) later in the month itself. However, the company seemed to have changed its mind later as it didn’t happen. Now the Redmond-based company has finally started taking pre-orders for the mixed reality development […]

  • NEWS
    Could Business Meetings of the Future Be in Virtual Reality?

    A new offering from virtual reality company Oculus, now owned by Facebook, could have interesting implications for small businesses. Oculus Rooms and Parties are new features for Gear VR users. They’ll also be available on Oculus Rift devices in 2017. Parties are essentially group voice calls that take place in virtual reality. You can add […]

  • CLOTHING
    Wearable Robots Could Be a Reality Soon

    Wearable Robots Could Be a Reality Soon Researchers are developing a robotic fabric that moves and contracts and is embedded with sensors, an approach that may lead to “active clothing” and a new class of “soft” robots. Such an elastic technology could make possible robots that have sensory skin, stretchable robotic garments that people might […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Intel Announces Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Headset; Microsoft to Release Holographic Display Support for Windows 10

    Intel Announces Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Headset; Microsoft to Release Holographic Display Support for Windows 10 HIGHLIGHTS Intel CEO Brian Krzanich opened IDF 2016 with a wide-ranging keynote Project Alloy hardware and APIs will be open-sourced in 2017 Intel is also partnering with BMW on autonomous vehicles Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced what the company […]