The first people who will visit Mars are sitting in a school today. In fact, the first astronauts will arrive before today’s kindergarteners graduate college. To help inspire these students, Lockheed Martin created a one-of-a-kind bus fitted with a lot of high-tech that enables them to explore the surface of Mars to…
Yes, just a few weeks after heading to Vienna for our visit to vrei, it drew us back there this past Monday to attend the AVR-Playground conference at the Technical University Vienna, organized by techmagnet, the largest Austrian Tech YouTube channel. We decided very spontaneously to go after having a closer…
Just recently we featured an article about the Infinitus Prime tVR and about the fact that they want to position themselves exclusively in the B2B sector. Now, HTC is aiming to fill the same market gap. After having announced that the entire backlog of HTC Vive orders has been cleared…
After initially kicking off the VR research project with just one bachelor and one master thesis, we have now expanded our team and formed a proper VR Research Division. Philipp has finished his bachelor thesis and will continue to contribute to the team and administrate the website. Julia is writing…
In past attacks, the militant group ‘Islamic State’ has destroyed many antiquities in Mosul in Northern Iraq. To counter this, The Economist and Rekrei collaborated to recreate a museum of lost artifacts, also known as ‘Project Mosul’. The museum explains why many of the lost artifacts and heritage sites are important. Project Mosul was…
We talk about VR a lot on this blog, hence our name. However, you may or may not have yet had the chance to try out VR for yourself. Maybe a colleague told you about it, maybe you read about it in the newspaper or here. You understand that it is…
While most people are excited that the first proper consumer HMDs are finally hitting the markets, it was easy to forget that they are – as the name implies – mainly meant to be for the final consumers. At least we have always applied the thinking that they might as…
NextVR, a live virtual reality broadcast, has become an ally with events firm Live Nation. The first show of live concert will be this summer 2016. The goal is to broadcast “hundreds of live, cutting-edge performances in VR to music fans worldwide”. This partnership sounds like a huge deal. But…
The Central Missouri Honor Flight is offering a VR service called Honor Everywhere 360. They are a charity that aids terminally ill veterans in attending their memorials in Washington DC. This new service they are offering now enables even the veterans that are physically unable to travel to visit the memorials.…
It is not too late to be the one. The VR market is still developing, but with an incredible strength. There are constantly new players and new opportunities for the tourism industry. Huawei is a multinational organization working in 172 countries all over the world. It is serving almost one…