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#436: Providing Wide-Area Tracking for VR Arcades with OptiTrack

by kentbyeSeptember 13, 2016

OptiTrack premiered a new demo at GDC that shows the extent of their tracking technology precision. They put passive tracking markers on a basketball and football that allowed people to go toss a ball back and forth to each other in VR. I had a...

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#434: Tracking Your Hands using Flex Sensor Technology with Manus VR

by kentbyeSeptember 10, 2016

I had a chance to try out the Manus VR hand-tracked controller on the expo floor of GDC this year, and saw that there a couple of really strong use cases for having your hands and fingers tracked in VR. You can be a lot more expressive within Social...

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#429: Revolutionizing VR Sports Training with STRIVR Labs

by kentbyeSeptember 1, 2016

When Derek Belch was a kicker on Stanford's football team in 2004, he took a class with the Virtual Human Interaction Lab's Jeremy Bailenson where he was exposed to virtual reality technologies for the first time. Belch asked Bailenson if it was...

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#428: SMI Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

by kentbyeAugust 31, 2016

Sensomotoric Instruments (SMI) is a German-based eye tracking company who has released an eye tracking kit for the Oculus DK2 & Gear VR, and most recently for the HTC Vive. At SIGGRAPH this year, Nvidia was showing a foveated rendering demo where it...

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#418: NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH: New Quadro GPUs, AI, & the Future of Interactive Ray Tracing

by kentbyeAugust 15, 2016

SIGGRAPH is a conference where GPU manufacturers announce new versions of professional graphics cards designed for the visual effects industry and high-end virtual reality content producers in architectural visualization and engineering. NVIDIA...

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#417: Social Presence & Training Social Dynamics with Virtual Humans

by kentbyeAugust 12, 2016

Team training scenarios are often difficult to schedule due to the logistics involved coordinating many different people's schedules. One solution has been to use virtual humans as stand-ins for actual humans in team training scenarios where the...

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#409: Wizard of Oz Narratives: Puppeting Virtual Characters with Improv Acting

by kentbyeJuly 31, 2016

Wizard of Oz' VR experiences use improv actors to drive either a single or multiple virtual characters. This technique is commonly used within VR training applications where it's cheaper to have a single actor puppeting multiple virtual characters...

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#390: AI & VR: Using IBM’s Watson for Game Design, Interactive Narratives, & Conversational Interfaces

by kentbyeJune 28, 2016

Machine Learning is going to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. Developers can integrate cloud-based AI services into their game to dynamically change the game...

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#385: Going down the Rabbit Hole: Simulation Theory, AI, & the Battle for Reality

by kentbyeJune 18, 2016

For the past three years, Cris Miranda has been taking VR pioneers down the rabbit hole of thinking about the deepest philosophical implications of virtual reality on his Enter VR podcast. He has been seeking out the boundaries of our understanding...

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#369: The White House on the AI Revolution: Policy, Privacy, & GPUs

by kentbyeMay 26, 2016

Artificial Intelligence has the potential to disrupt so many different dimensions of our society that the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy recently announced a series of four public workshops to look at some of the possible impacts...

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#362: Future of VR on the Open Web: WebVR, WebGL 2, & WebAssembly

by kentbyeMay 13, 2016

Brandon Jones has been one of the lead developers on the WebVR API over the past couple of years as part of his 20% project at Google. He announced this week that he's now going to be working on WebVR full-time, which is a great indicator that...

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#350: VR on the Open Web with A-Frame and WebVR

by kentbyeApril 26, 2016

Is VR on the open web going to provide a good enough experience as to be a viable distribution platform for certain VR content? That's the big question that people have been asking for the past couple of years, and there's been a lot of big steps...

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#315: Job Simulator and the Magic of Hand Presence

by kentbyeMarch 9, 2016

Owlchemy Labs' Job Simulator was recently announced to be one of the bundled games to be included with the HTC Vive, and it's also going to be a launch title for the Sony PlayStation VR as well as for Oculus Touch. I had a chance to catch up with...

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#293: AI & the Future of Interactive Drama

by kentbyeFebruary 6, 2016

Andrew Stern doesn't enjoy most AAA video games because he wants to be able to say anything at any moment within a social simulation and participate in an interesting story. About once week, he'd like to engage with a high agency, interactive drama...

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#112: Brandon Jones on WebVR for Chrome

by kentbyeMarch 25, 2015

Brandon Jones is a WebGL developer who started implementing WebVR into the Chrome web browswer as a part of his 20% project at Google. He's been working on it for the past year in order to get VR into the browser. You can find the latest WebVR...

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#106: Josh Carpenter on The Future of WebVR and Enabling the Metaverse

by kentbyeMarch 16, 2015

Josh Carpenter is a researcher and interaction and user interaction designer for figuring out how to use virtual reality on the web with WebVR. Mozilla has been increasing the size of the team working on WebVR because they're betting that immersive...

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#81: Josh Carpenter on WebVR & upcoming VR experiments from Mozilla including collaborative web browsing with TogetherJS

by kentbyeOctober 20, 2014

Josh Carpenter is a VR researcher at Mozilla looking to see how to combine the best of the web with what the VR communications medium can offer. Mozilla lead the effort to release a WebVR API in June and it's supported in Firefox as well as Chrome...

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