Archives for Technology Discussion
Bitcoin and the Future of Virtual Reality
We all have heard about Bitcoin, the most famous cryptocurrency in the market, but few really know what it is and how could it relate to Virtual Reality. Luckily for…
Kernel – The Company that Wants to Hack the Brain
Kernel is a neuroscience startup and its CEO and main sponsor, Bryan Johnson, doesn’t ask if we should have chips inside out brains, but when will we. Johnson founded Kernel…
Neuralink – Elon Musk’s Plan to Upgrade Humanity
Neuralink is trying to hack the brain, so that mankind can be healthier for longer in the future and enjoy the benefits of treating brain like a computer. Neuralink’s Purpose…
Full Augmented Reality is Still 5 Years Away
During Facebook’s F8 developer’s conference, Michael Abrash, Oculus’ chief scientist, took the stage to discuss augmented reality and its humbling evolution. Even though Virtual Reality is gaining a lot of…
Nanites and Nanotechnology for Use in Virtual Reality and Haptics
With the founding of two companies designed to interface human brains directly with computers using nanotechnology (See this Wired Article) the stage has now been set for next stage of…
What is Full Dive Virtual Reality?
Full Dive VR is a full immersion virtual reality experience in which people would immerse themselves in virtually created environments like those from video games. People would not have the…
Can We Really Expect Gaming Graphics to Get Any Better?
Image courtesy of Alexey Vinokurov under CC BY every passing year, we see gaming graphics improve bit by bit. Games like The Witcher 3 and The Last of Us are…
PHRTF Sound: Far better than 3D Sound for VR
During the annual presentation at Oculus Connect, Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, talked about the ultimate audio solution for VR, PHRTF (Personalized Head-Related Transfer Functions), and he claims it will…
Transfer Emotions and Facial Expressions to VR
It seems that virtual reality is never immersive enough and some believe it requires more than astonishing visuals. In that sense, two companies are developing technologies that could transfer our…
Light Field Displays are the Future of VR
Imagine if each one of the pixels on a screen wouldn’t have just one color, and that such pixels could seem to be of a different color depending on the…