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Editorial note: We have formed a research division

Roman Egger 7. June 2016 7. June 2016General 0

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…

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Understand what VR is all about

Roman Egger 2. June 2016 1. June 2016General, Marketing 0

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…

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Infinitus Prime tVR – a B2B HMD?

Roman Egger 26. May 2016 26. May 2016General, Tech Development 0

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…

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Our visit at vrei

Julia Beck 23. May 2016 25. May 2016Entertainment, General 0

This time we are not presenting you a new VR travel related app or any new developments regarding VR and tourism. This time we traveled for the purpose of VR. We went to Vienna to visit vrei – the first Virtual Reality lounge in Austria. There we met Florian Sam and…

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Emergence of new jobs

Julia Beck 11. May 2016 14. May 2016General, Hospitality, Marketing 0

Virtual Reality is developing at such a fast pace – the technology behind, available apps and content, different congresses and fairs are evolving as well as the application in various industries is expanding. This comes along with the emergence of new jobs.  As we are based in Austria, we checked out the…

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VR Veterans Experience: Enabling the Disabled

Roman Egger 1. May 2016 1. May 2016Accessibility, General 0

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.…

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New players, means new opportunities

Roman Egger 21. April 2016 26. April 2016General, Marketing, Tech Development 0

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…

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VR as Guerilla-Marketing

Roman Egger 14. April 2016 28. April 2016General, Marketing 0

While we are seeing more and more content being produced exclusively for VR, most use for that content is to be consumed at home or at trade shows. Now, this might be changing, as VR is increasingly used in guerilla-marketing. One of the first uses of VR as guerilla-marketing that…

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Radical change of tourism – a video

Roman Egger 7. April 2016 7. April 2016Attractions, General 0

While we are not yet involved with the creation of videos, we would like to share this video curated by the people at Virtuality about the radical change of the travel industry caused by VR. We believe it sums up the many opportunities VR offers to service providers to enable a…

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The conceptual implementation of senses

Roman Egger 6. April 2016 7. April 2016General, Tech Development 0

While we previously argued that the exploration of senses is not yet advanced for all of our senses, there have been some attempts in development trying to improve the implementation of senses in VR. With the consumer HMDs that have been released in the past weeks, the only senses strongly stimulated…

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