Virtual Reality

Gaming

Appblaster: Explosive Fun Or Expensive Dumb?

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3:30PM October 7, 2011 | Alex Kidman

We’ve known about the AppBlaster for some time now, but last week, one landed on my desk. Armed only with an iPhone 3GS, I set to seeing whether a plastic AR gun could really make my real world shooting dreams come true. More »


Gadgets

Virtual Reality Goggles For iPhone Turn 2D Content Into ’3D’

3:00AM August 19, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Good ol’ Hammacher Schlemmer — they’ve taken one company’s outlandish idea of a virtual reality viewer for the iPhone, and turned it into a $US50 contraption nobody will buy. More »


Science

Screen Tracks Your Eye Movements So You Can Never Look Away

6:40AM May 3, 2011 | Casey Chan

Students from the University of Texas have built a screen that you can’t ever look away from because it follows your eye’s every move. Seriously! An eye-tracking camera tracks where your eye is looking and the motorised pico-projector shoots out the display to that target. If you glance off to the right, the screen follows. Hell, if your eye twitches even a little bit, the screen is perfectly adjusted to where you’re staring at. More »


Entertainment

Admit It, You’d Do This If You Had A Virtual Reality System

2:40PM March 31, 2011 | Rosa Golijan

What the hell are you supposed to do in a virtual world anyway—choose between red and blue pills? More »


Geek Out

The Castle Of Shadows, A 15th Century Virtual Reality Room

7:20AM February 23, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

In 1420, Venetian engineer Giovanni Fontana proposed an elaborate mechanical room he dubbed the Castellum Umbrarum, or “castle of shadows”. Sound awesome? It is. More »


Online

The Pope Doesn’t Want You Hanging Out In Second Life

10:52PM October 13, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

At a congress of Catholic media last week, Pope Benedict XVI warned that new technologies could cause people to confuse virtual worlds with our real one. Unfortunately, it looks like there’s no salvation for avatars. More »


Gaming

Michael Jackson Virtual World Will Be Free Of Lawsuits, Overdoses

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8:24PM September 21, 2010 | Angus Kidman

Oww! The virtual genitalia jokes write themselves, don’t they? Yes, Michael Jackson’s estate has approved an online interactive world, perhaps inevitably called Planet Michael, which will appear in 2011. All the crotch-thrusting detail after the jump. More »


Software

The Ideal Holiday Spot For You And Your Virtual Girlfriend

3:00PM August 31, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

You might chuckle at this fellow for pretending to be taking a picture with his virtual girlfriend, but he’s happy. He’s on holidays with his love, and they’re in a place which caters to their sort of peculiar relationship. More »


Science

Meta Cookie Uses Virtual Reality To Make A Cookie Taste Like Anything You Want

5:40AM August 10, 2010 | Adam Frucci

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Perception is important in how you taste things; you taste what you expect to taste, more or less. Which is why wearing a big VR helmet can change how you taste a bland cookie. More »


Gaming

Projected Pong Puts Some Interactive BleepBloop On Your Apartment Walls

1:20AM July 21, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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Take an Arduino, accelerometer and gyroscope-powered VR glove, some custom software, a projector and some funky interiors and you’ve got yourself the most futuristic game of Pong I’ve ever seen. Spoiler: the ball actually bounces off the stairs. More »