May

By  Rita El Khoury   What if virtual reality was just reality, with a small asterisk? What if you could strap on your VR headset, regardless of the brand or technology behind them, and see the same thing that's in front of you... but mirrored? Or upside down? Or delayed by 2 seconds? Ha, what a novel idea! VR Party Game does just that. It's a Cardboard app/game that transmits your smartphone's rear camera view onto the screen, but applies one of three...

By  Dale Baskin   Virtual reality, or VR, has the potential to redefine the way we interact with images, including still images, movies, and other forms of visual storytelling. It’s already being adopted by major news organizations to take you deeper into stories, Hollywood studios that want to generate more immersive entertainment, and content creators who want to share experiences that don’t work as effectively on a flat screen. VR is still...

By  Dan Isacsson       Samsung was present at the Display Week conference in San Francisco, CA this week. Aside from its usual selection, there were a few VR specific displays. Most exciting, of course, is the prospect of 4K displays.   Samsung has showcased a selection of its next generation of displays at the SID Display Week  conference in San Francisco, CA this week. One was a virtual reality-oriented...

By  Dani Di Placido   Filmmaker Steven Spielberg speaks during Harvard University commencement exercises, Thursday, May 26, 2016, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Earlier this week, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg gave his slightly cynical opinion on virtual reality and its potentially destructive effect on the entertainment industry. “I think we’re moving into a dangerous medium with virtual reality,” he said. “The only...

By Kent Bye   During Google’s Daydream Labs presentation at Google I/O , they discussed how to deal with different types of trolling behaviors. Suzanne Leibrick is a VR user interface and user experience designer, who has experienced different types of online harassment within virtual spaces. As a response to this, she wrote up a number of different suggestions in a post titled Social VR solutions. I had a chance to catch up with her at Google I/O to talk about...