Recently updated on November 6th, 2021 at 10:22 pm
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Recently, there is a new model of virtual tourism taking place in Japan. The company called First Airlines offer the experience of travelling inside a plane. Instead of the normal flight simulation where you are the pilot or the co-pilot, but here you’ll be the normal passenger on the flight.
Virtual Tourism & VR Trip from First Airlines in Japan
Recently updated on November 6th, 2021 at 10:22 pm
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The latest usage and application of VR in sports is in the 2018 Winter Olympics. The location is at Pyeongchang in South Korea and the event is still ongoing from 9th Feb to 25th Feb 2018. A top broadcasting company, NBC, has successfully produced an app calleed NBC Sports VR app that will provide live virtual reality coverage of this big event. VOD (Video On Demand) mode is also available if you miss the live session. Some of the popular games that you can enjoy using this VR app are skiing, snowboard, skating and ice hockey.
Live Winter Olympics Coverage with NBC Sports VR App Using Intel True VR
Recently updated on November 6th, 2021 at 10:23 pm
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One of the major and global challenge with virtual reality nowadays are the length of duration they can stay in the virtual world. Most of the complaints around 25% to 40% said they cannot stay longer because of the VR motion sickness. After using it for a while they can get nausea, dizzy, eye discomfort and headache. This is not good for the VR industry since it will be hard to sell the useful hardware, software and apps to the mass market.
How MONKEYmedia’s BodyNav Can Solve VR Motion Sickness Issue?
Recently updated on November 6th, 2021 at 10:23 pm
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At SOLIDWORKS World event recently, HP Inc. announced their latest products which include the VR solutions and gears as well. Apart from the newly enhanced HP Z4 Workstation, they also introduced the Professional Edition of the HP Windows Mixed Reality Headset. The headset has awesome visuals of 1440×1440 resolution per eye with 90Hz refresh rate. Cool, huh?
To add to the list, HP also launched the HP Z VR Backpack which according to them is the first professional wearable VR Personal Computer in the world. Furthermore, they also mentioned about the HP VR Launch Kit for Unreal Engine to speed up the VR development and optimize its deployment. To make it more interesting, they also offer an option for the customer to use the DaaS model to get the VR solutions.
DaaS (Device as a Service) Model for VR Solutions from HP