With virtual
reality headsets close to taking off as a family device, there will be a pressing need for children to critically evaluate even the most immersive and engaging content.
Not exact matches
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Virtual
reality is taking a few steps
closer to the mainstream with Samsung unveiling a
headset that brings the technology to its latest smartphones at half the price of its previous model, Facebook launching support for 360 - degree video, and online video services like Netflix and Hulu jumping into the format.
The vision of mainstream virtual
reality gaming came one step
closer to a
reality recently, with the unveiling of Sony's long - rumoured, Oculus Rift - rivalling
headset codenamed Project Morpheus.
Sony plans to release its own virtual
reality headset for PlayStation 4 in 2014, sources
close to Eurogamer have stated.
This year at E3 Sony held
closed door demonstrations of its Project Morpheus virtual
reality headset, and I was fortunate enough to get to spend some hands - on (eyes - on) time with device and two of the tech demos that Sony had prepared for it.
But now, thanks to the PlayStation VR
headset and EA's Star Wars Battlefront game, that dream, almost 40 years in the making, has become as
close to
reality as it's ever likely to be.
Samsung's HMD Odyssey is joining Microsoft's array of mixed
reality headsets as we get
closer to the Oct. 17 launch of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Up...
We've broken down the specifications for each of the Windows Mixed
Reality headsets, taking a
closer look at what expect from each of the devices.
After several months in
closed beta testing, Microsoft has finally launched its Actiongram HoloLens app to the general public that owns the augmented
reality headset.
This will result in an experience that is less
closed off compared to what current VR
headsets provide, and more of a merged
reality in the same vein as what will be offered by Microsoft's HoloLens and the technology that startup Magic Leap is working on.
It's not really augmented
reality since you can't interact with the objects, but it's closer to «Mixed Reality» than the headse
reality since you can't interact with the objects, but it's
closer to «Mixed
Reality» than the headse
Reality» than the
headsets are.
Plantation, Florida - based startup Magic Leap finally unveiled its first official product following seven years of development and
close to two billion dollars raised in funding from tech giants like Google, Temasek, and Alibaba, having announced the Magic Leap One: Creator Edition, a mixed
reality headset which adopts the form of retro - futuristic goggles.
That said, in the approximately one year since the original device's release, Google's burgeoning Daydream platform has come a long way, though it's still far from being anywhere
close to seeing mainstream adoption, in part because so few Android devices support the
headset, as well as the fact that many people don't understand what virtual
reality is.
Google's head of virtual and augmented
reality Clay Bavor says they will be priced
closer to a tethered PC
headset, like the $ 499 Oculus Rift or $ 599 HTC Vive.