Have you ever gone on a roller coaster and thought: this could be better, if only aliens were attacking me at the same time? Six Flags is here to answer your call, with what will either be the best summer pastime or the most gimmicky: virtual reality coasters. The original Revolution steel coaster debuted on …
Virtual reality has a bad rep. Generally VR’s critics maintain that it will lead to either complete isolation and detachment from the world or some kind of odd hedonistic, surreal or fetishist exploration. In the middle are all the people who see VR as a bunch of fun, immersive experiences, but ones that rely on …
We recently talked about virtual reality with the way we do business, and virtual reality in general has been the talk of the proverbial digital town with the upcoming release of Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and other VR devices. But one thing that’s been getting ignored is augmented reality, the current and more ubiquitous form …
There’s an odd disconnect between the older and younger generations nowadays. There are small children who pick up glossy magazine covers and find it weird that they can’t enlarge the images by pinching their thumb and forefingers together and then sliding them away from each other. You have adults who are happy that they’re finally …
Virtual reality–or VR– has been gaining tons of traction in the media in recent years, especially thanks to the Oculus Rift and Sony’s Project Morpheus (now PlayStation VR). And it’s VR’s poster boy and Oculus’ founder Palmer Luckey who took to Twitter recently to sound off and what exactly will hold back virtual reality, especially …