Sentences with phrase «own vr»

But other kinds of VR can reinforce the problem by giving a viewer only a specific version of the events (Tom Kent of the Associated Press has written about some of these ethical challenges).

A couple of years ago, all the cool kids were chasing VR — raising money, building prototypes, waiting for the billions to roll in.

Ultimately, journalists and audiences must come to some kind of agreement on what is acceptable in the new world of immersive and VR journalism, and determine what kinds of film - making behavior are too manipulative.

Nonny de la Peña, an L.A. - based journalist and pioneer in VR film - making, created a 3D virtual representation of the night that Trayvon Martin was killed, and has also made an immersive film focused on the refugee crisis in Syria.

A company called Industrial Training International recently unveiled a new VR rig that allows workers to operate realistic crane controls in an immersive VR simulation.

«That's the biggest problem with VR now.»

The Chernobyl VR Project will be released on 26 April 2016 - the 30 th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster, and it will work with Samsung Gear VR, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Playstation VR and other consumer VR headsets including Google Cardboard.

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has been financially backing Nimble America, a not - for - profit organization supporting Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump and says it's working for «social welfare,» The Daily Beast is reporting.

The other four finalist companies ranged across industries: «A.I. Software,» a bot for enterprises to help companies digest their internal information; Daymaker, a platform for kids to give to others in need; Issue Voter, a Wikipedia for Legislation; and Omnivirt, an AR / VR ad platform for brands and publishers.

«We're not afraid of competition, we're afraid of bad VR,» says Raymond Pao, vice-president of VR new technology at HTC.

This is Samsung's Gear 4D VR experience.

Instead of simply looking at photos or reading text, VR allows a viewer to experience a piece of journalism from the inside.

It features a snowboarding experience, a virtual walk on the moon, and even a VR roller coaster.

This has granted us access to many closed - off and normally - unavailable places,» The Farm 51's project manager Michal Grzesiczek said in the Chernobyl VR Project video trailer.

Kevin Reilly: But with all the advances in technology, from VR to animatronics, why do they need to use real bodies?

While VR is popular in the videogame community, it has not gone mainstream.

Speaking as part of a panel discussion on the future of VR in Shenzhen, China, on Tuesday, Pao talked about how much work HTC and the other high - end VR purveyors have ahead of them in selling consumers on the technology.

She has talked about the risks of manipulating viewers through VR, and how the immersive nature of the experience can heighten this risk.

On Sunday, March 11, Twitch and IMDb joined forces to stream interviews, game play, 1980s trivia and VR experiences to promote the Stephen Spielberg film Ready Player One, slated for a wide release next month.

Sony may change that this fall with its PlayStation VR, but it remains to be seen whether the company's headset can do anything besides games.

The New York Times (NYT) recently sent Google Cardboard VR headsets to a million subscribers so the readers could experience The Displaced, a special VR feature on the plight of European refugees.

HTC, maker of the Vive virtual reality headset, is worried about the proliferation of cheap VR products that will soon flood the market.

• Fenox Venture Capital and AsusTek Computer Inc formed a $ 50 million venture fund, which will focus on AI, big data, Internet of Things, cloud, and AR / VR.

Syfy has created a 360 - degree VR app for fans to explore the spaceships and space stations of «The Expanse» TV series.

While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.

Everyone is talking about virtual reality and augmented reality and artificial intelligence and deep learning (not using those actual words, but rather «VR» and «AR» and «AI» and «DL»).

I feel like there's always such a sense of resistance when a new thing comes out, like Twitch came out, and we were all like, that's ridiculous, or Periscope or even all of the VR stuff with Oculus and Vive.

VR hardware and software makers are also going to have to adjust the design of their products to work well with the new medium.

According to The Farm 51's creative director Wojciech Pazdur, the VR app experience will be similar to watching a documentary, only the experience will be interactive and aiming to place the viewer right there in Pripyat, sort of like virtual tourism.

And virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are much more commonly used there, compared with the United States.

In other words, because VR lets reporters, photographers, and videographers create a simulated version of a specific event, it could easy let them distort what happened and give a false impression of that event.

Think about a VR version of the night that Michael Brown was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo..

And YouTube has said it also wants to bring VR to anyone with a smartphone.

It's official — virtual reality, or VR technology, is the hot, new trend in media circles.

VR ultimately isn't a short - lived bubble, nor is it the next big thing, he added.

Palmer Luckey, co-founder and creator of the Oculus Rift of Oculus VR.

There's an undeniable shortage of places where people can experience VR.

«The team will develop and explore new products and uses of VR through immersive retail environments that can be incorporated by all facets of Walmart, online and offline,» Finnegan wrote in a blog post announcing the acquisition.

HTC's VR head says that with decent headsets still carrying hefty price tags, consumers could be turned off by low - end also - rans

VR may be one.

These trends all push VR closer to being an ubiquitous factor in how we interact with content.

Plus, the PlayStation VR comes with a demo disc packed full of trial versions of games.

The most recent example, of course, came on Tuesday, when Facebook announced a $ 2 billion acquisition of the virtual reality startup Oculus VR, but it's just the most recent in a string of Facebook's recent buyout offers, from it's failed $ 3 billion bid for Snapchat to its jaw - dropping $ 19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp.

One magazine went so far to ask, «Is VR our next hard drug?»

This game makes full use of everything the PlayStation VR has to offer: You have to duck and weave your head around errand buzzsaws, even as you wield one pistol in each hand to take down monsters.

The company debuted VR workout rigs at CES, which focus on a gamified version of strength and weight - resistance training.

Rent a space, invest in VR platforms, and charge per experience.

Set to launch on October 13 for $ 399, the PlayStation VR brings a virtual reality experience competitive with (but not quite as powerful as) what Facebook and HTC have to offer.

During lunchtime, the annual global pitch competition will invite 10 startups from healthcare 3D printing, bio-printing, and related 3D visualization technologies such as VR / AR to pitch in front a group of investors including GE Ventures, Asimov Ventures, Digital Industrialist, and other Silicon Valley investors.

I've been playing with the Sony PlayStation VR for the past few days.