New Virtual Reality Cannabis App Dōs is Breathtaking
The Dōs VR app is a cannabis app meant to virtually take you on a journey reflective of any given strain of cannabis.
Users can see a Santa Monica sunset or the flirty fountains in front of the Bellagio in Vegas. Unlike YouTube videos and pictures, the app uses 360-degree filing techniques so the user can move the phone up, down and all around to see everything normally out of range on a small screen.
You don’t see this app, you experience it.
Gerome described it simply as a platform where companies (for a sponsorship fee) can curate a video library of virtual experiences to evoke the emotions that they want to associate with their particular strain of cannabis.
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SPACEVR RAISES $1.25 MILLION TO LAUNCH VIRTUAL REALITY CAMERA SATELLITES INTO SPACE
The company has just announced that they have raised a respectable amount of seed financing led by a $1 million investment from Shanda Group as well as another $250,000 from Skywood Capital. The investments will be used to accelerate the continued development and launch of SpaceVR’s Overview 1, what they are saying will be the world’s very first virtual reality camera satellite.
The tiny Overview 1 virtual reality satellite is equipped with two 4K sensors that have been paired with a 2D 360° camera and several wide field of view lenses that will capture an immersive sphere of video
See the full story here: https://3dprint.com/132185/spacevr-camera-satellites/
NextVR Partners With Golden Boy Promotions To Bring Virtual Reality To Boxing Fans
NextVR has partnered with Golden Boy Promotions to give fans an exclusive virtual reality experience of WBC, Ring Magazine, and Lineal Middleweight World Champion Canelo Álvarez training for his fight May 7 against two-time world champion Amir “King” Khan.
For fans that want to be fully immersed they will need the Gear VR for mobile. The alternative option is to view the content on YouTube or Facebook 360, where they are able to click and move around as they wish.
This is only the beginning for the NextVR and Golden Boy Promotions as they plan to continue working together to give boxing fans a virtual experience.
See the full story here: http://www.sporttechie.com/2016/05/01/nextvr-partners-with-golden-boy-promotions-to-bring-virtual-reality-to-boxing-fans/
Mapping the Israeli virtual reality and augmented reality startup landscape
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How Games Are Changing the Museum Experience
“We got a group of students together and spent a couple of months teaching them about the science of what would be in the exhibit, teaching them the basics of game design, and then working with them to create this prototype for what would eventually become MicroRangers,” Joseph said.
The result demonstrates how AMNH, along with many other museums, are integrating both analog and digital gameplay into the visitor experience as a way to connect with exhibitions on new levels. The idea is not to edge out the more traditional ways of exploring collections, like aimlessly wandering through halls or reading about the backstory of specific displays, but rather to complement them with new avenues of engagement.
...over a decade later, the idea that games to augment and enhance educational experiences is becoming more mainstream, and museums are more eager than ever to adopt these interactive elements into their exhibits.
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Google Patents Computer That You Inject Into Your Eyeball
Google has filed a patent application for a device that's injected directly into your eyeball. The tiny computer would be used to improve your vision, but who is to say it won't one day be capable of augmented reality?
see the full story here: http://www.askmen.com/news/tech/google-patents-computer-that-you-inject-into-your-eyeball.html
The role of virtual reality and technology in the future of museums
Museums are usually considered purveyors of the past, but in Alex Benay’s eyes, they might be better off as tech pioneers.
“I’m not a traditionalist,” said Benay, president and CEO of the Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation. “The concept here is using things like virtual reality, open data, anything that gets the story out … whether it’s raw or filtered, [it] means engagement.”
The first test of Benay’s approach is a virtual-reality (VR) simulation of the 1936 CN 6400 steam locomotive. Acquired by the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 1967, the train is a popular attraction at the museum.
Visitors to the museum, currently closed for renovations, will step into a six-foot-long by six-foot-high box, throw on an Oculus Rift headset and begin “operating” the train in 4-D, complete with surround sound, air cannons shooting steam into their face while the floor quakes beneath their feet.
“You can go and look at the train, but if you get to live the experience … that’s a better emotional home run for a visitor,” Benay said, adding that anyone with their own VR headset can drive the train from home, too. “[The] visitor can be anywhere in the country, or the world,” he said.
“Maybe we need to stop looking at exhibitions as the only way for a museum to engage,” he said. “Maybe we should stop talking about attendance to these exhibitions as the measure for success.”
See the full story here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/the-role-of-virtual-reality-and-technology-in-the-future-of-museums/article29806065/
Facebook’s Oculus Rift Won’t be the iPhone of Virtual Reality
Mark Zuckerberg "We are betting that Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this...I honestly don't know...how long it will take to build this ecosystem...My guess is that it will be at least 10 [years]...We're mostly interested in the software. But there is a time early on in the development of any new platform where you really need to do the hardware and the software at the same time. Only later does specialization become valuable. So you get a company that is really good at the hardware, and one that is really good at software. Everything is changing quickly enough that you kind of want the iteration to be linked. Which is why we also take care of the hardware; although our long-term role will be in the field of software."
Not material in 2016
Facebook's management has been clear: Oculus Rift won't be material to the company's financials anytime soon. But for long-term shareholders, Facebook's interest in virtual reality is certainly worth watching.
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