On October 6th, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg presented the company’s new advancements in the field of Social VR. Facebook, which acquired Oculus Rift in 2014, has been working on a mind blowing creation which brings Virtual Reality to a next level. The avatars are able to show facial emotions, such as…
For Aaron Puzey it was too boring to just sit at home on his exercise bike. As he is a game developer, he thought of an idea to make the monotonous workout more fun and exciting, without having to deal with bad weather, scary traffic or bugs flying into his mouth.…
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…
Have you ever dreamed about traveling to space? For a lot of people this is one of the biggest dreams. However, various restrictions such as financial resources, health conditions or simply the fact that it is not possible/available yet to travel to space make the realization of that dream impossible. This is where…
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…
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.…
“Seeing the world is a powerful thing.” Expedia.com launched a campaign with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to make travel and seeing the world also available to those who cannot. The Dream Adventures initiative made it possible for four children who suffer from cancer to travel virtually to their dream…