03/12/2012, I would understand if a pop or rock stars’ concerts were sold out, but in the Land of the Rising Sun, very different things do crop up from time to time. Take for instance, digital diva Hatsune Miku, who recently [...]
01/13/2012, [CES 2012] A virtual fitting room – now that is certainly far less of a hassle to try out new clothes compared to the traditional fitting room, even more so for folks like me who wear prescription glasses. After all, [...]
07/20/2011, During CES 2011, Sony made a big deal about 3D by asking attendees to put on the medium’s polarized glasses throughout their presentation. They even revealed a headset which greatly resembled the headgear that the X-Men character Cyclops wore, which [...]
06/28/2011, Motion controllers are still the hottest gaming peripherals on the scene right now. Nintendo is still pushing its Wii Remote and will incorporate them into his Wii U controller, Sony is plowing ahead with its Move and Microsoft with its [...]
03/30/2011, The weather is getting quite cranky these days, simply because of global warming and such. Magic Vision Lab has come up with an augmented virtual reality system that is more or less able to transform a beautiful, sunny day into [...]
03/28/2011, As if slashing flying fruit in the popular iOS and Android game Fruit Ninja wasn’t already fun enough, a bunch of intrepid German students got together and hacked a life-sized virtual reality version of the game. Using a 3D motion tracking system [...]
01/23/2011, While the upcoming 3D gadgets such as Nintendo’s 3DS portable gaming system are definitely interesting, you might be feeling nostalgic and long for those old-fashioned 3D systems that slapped an electronic display right over your eyes. Well, if you’re willing [...]
12/21/2010, The Microsoft Kinect has certainly garnered quite a following in the hacking community, as many people have already come up with a variety of methods to get their kicks. Even better news recently is that the Kinect’s full potential has [...]
08/31/2010, Konami Digital Entertainment have teamed up with the Japanese coastal town of Atami to lure men and their virtual reality dating game. Various parts of the resort carry a 2D barcode, that when captured with a smartphone’s camera and combined [...]
08/24/2010, Intel and Nokia have announced that they will be developing a joint research center in the University of Oulu, dubbed the Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center. The purpose of this is to create software for 3D and virtual reality [...]
06/30/2010, Student hairdressers are always going to have trouble finding folks who are willing to let them try their skills on their hair, and that’s probably why the smart folks over at the Tokyo Institute of Technology are working on Air [...]
04/30/2010, Treadmills are good for exercise, but being able to just walk in one direction in the same environment gets boring really fast. Now a bunch of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germany have come up [...]
04/08/2010, Can’t afford one of those super expensive immersive gaming experiences? What you can do is try and emulate what Gavan Woolery did to come up with his virtual reality setup, which basically places his monitor inches away from his eyes. [...]
03/12/2010, We’ve brought your attention to the VirtuSphere some time ago, but that was before it was ready to be shown to the general public. Now you can actually check out the VirtuSphere as it was demoed at the GDC (Game [...]