For the past 2 years, consumer Virtual Reality goggles have mostly fallen into two categories: room-scaled VR goggles that require a computer or console, and mobile VR boxes that are powered by smartphones. But in 2018, this is starting to change. Due to the costly PC-powered Virtual Reality goggles and poor image quality of mobile…
VR has so many uses today in the modern world, but a big chunk of the population still has never experienced it. In an effort to help push the adoption, some major brands have jumped on board and used VR in their advertising campaigns. Today we’ll talk about three that stand out among the crowd.
If you’ve tried Virtual Reality before, you understand how immersive the experience is. I’ve joked in the past about how time perception is completely skewed when in the virtual world. Hours can go by and seem like minutes when a headset is on. It’s the perfection distraction from anything that’s going on in the real…
We’ve discussed in the past how VR can take you to different worlds and relive certain experiences you may have already done. But what about going to places you’ve only dreamed of? Well, VR can help with that too. Let’s talk about bucket lists.
We’ve talked in the past about how Virtual Reality will become apart of our daily lives in the future here. But what about the technology that is available today that can push our current experiences to the next level? For some of this, we need to take a quick trip across the pond, to take…
Changes in the VR market are happening constantly, with new peripherals seemingly popping up weekly. As much as hardware is incredible and is what really allows you to interface with the Virtual Reality realm, software is currently the main pinpoint holding back the technology medium as a whole. With the entire world talking about how…
While you may have heard of this new thing called Virtual Reality (aka VR) as the newest toy that all the cool kids are getting, it is important to note that not all they are doing is playing video games. Ideally, things such as The Matrix and the Holodeck from Star Trek should come to…
A few weeks ago I wrote about the 5 key differences between the various VR headsets when it comes to specs and price. As VRPlayin is a venue that prides itself on the exclusive use of the HTC VIVE, it is worth writing as to why we have not yet upgraded to the VIVE PRO,…
Although we’ve touched on the topic of motion sickness in Virtual Reality several times, most notably in this article here, today we’re going to talk less on the hardware side and more on the content and physiological aspects of motion sickness.
Virtual Reality, also known as VR, is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days, alongside with Augmented Reality, or AR; Mixed Reality, or MR; and Extended Reality, XR. We’ve written in the past about what VR is, which you can find here, but the gist of it is that it is a…