Oculus Quest – Brilliant new headset revealed at Oculus Connect 5 What a massive week just gone. Oculus Connect 5 ran on Thursday/Friday last week and there was loads of news and information to come out from that fantastic event. Firstly, if you are interested in a load of the talks, Keynotes and everything in […]
Training in VR Walmart has just announced a massive rollout of Oculus Go Headsets, 17,000 in fact to all of its stores in the USA. Up until recently, I understand that Walmart was using Virtual Reality (VR) in its Academies of which there are 200 dotted around the USA. The VR experiences in these Academies […]
XR Interview with Ryan Atkins – Inside Out. Had the pleasure of having a long chat with Ryan Atkins from Seattle in the USA last week. We ventured into many different topics regarding XR and more importantly the effect it can have on people. I hope you enjoy it.
Can we help improve AFL goal kicking % with VR? I think we can! It would be my goal to see an increase of 5% overall, this would be huge for the game, the last time we saw a consistent improvement in Goal Kicking % was from pre-1980 to Post 1980. Goal Kicking in the […]
Virtual Reality in Sport Whilst doing research on the merits of using Virtual Reality for Athletes and Sporting teams we came upon something that made my jaw drop. This was Andre Drummond’s amazing transformation as a Free Throw shooter over the space of one offseason. Andre Drummond is a young 6 foot 11 inch centre […]
An insane VR experience at this years San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) with the Jack Ryan VR experience. This is really other level stuff, I mean watch this video and see what happens. I would have been struggling on that plank! All I can say about this is WOW! You must watch this video. I […]
We have a bumper line up of very interesting news below, a lot went on in the world of VR, AR or shall we call it XR? The biggest news item of the week was Magic Leap. Word got out that they would be doing a demo on their weekly twitch show and excitement abounded. […]
VR AR News The End of Financial Year is almost upon us, it has been a big month here at AustechVR with record numbers of headsets going out all around the country! We talked a little this week in blog about VR/AR and how it needs an image shift! 360 Jurassic Experience! Not a bad […]
I talk to a lot of people about Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). It seems most people who are aware of both technologies at a surface level think gaming is its purpose. Of course, VR has its roots in gaming and that has driven its growth particularly in the early stages. Virtual Reality […]
Facebook has been really driving the adoption of Augmented Reality (AR) for the last year or so. It all started with Snapchat and it’s amazing popularity on the back of its stories that disappeared after 24 hours and more often than not featured AR content. This is why Facebook Messenger Bots and Augmented Reality are going […]