With more scientific breakthroughs, technological advances and inventions currently taking place compared to in the past, the modern world is changing at a rapid rate. For example, areas of life that have been around for centuries, such as engineering or medicine, have changed beyond recognition over the past two decades thanks to the influence of IT, science and technology.…
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The idea of wearing a headset on your face like a pair of glasses and experiencing a virtual world seemed absurd fifteen or twenty years ago; how times can change! Virtual reality is still not mainstream, as traditional methods of watching movies, television shows, and videos still dominate. The same is true for gaming, where mobile, console and computer games…
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VR News: When you have to go into surgery to have a birth defect or some other physical defect changes, removed or alters there wasn’t really any way you could know what you might look like after that said surgery was completed. When it comes to children undergoing the same thing the parents can be quite anxious about what their…
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AR News: Hot on the coat-tails of Pokemon Go comes Pikmin Bloom is the next location-based game from Niantic that features even better AR options including depth perception rendering. The gameplay loop has you planting flowers when you begin a walk, leaving a trail of those flower petals behind you, which in turn helps the Pikmin in your possession grow…
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As you might know (or at the very least suspect) being a diagnostic radiographer means you are using some of the worlds most cutting-edge medical technology that requires a lot of training. That is why Bangor University (right here in Wales where I live) has been using VR to train its radiography staff and students. What might surprise you more…
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Online casinos have been growing in popularity ever since the first one went live in 1994. While many would have found it hard to believe just how popular they have become over the past three decades, it was clear from the beginning that people were interested. As technology has improved and the proliferation of smartphones continues, online casinos have upped…
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It seems not even the breakfast cereal giant brand Nestlé could not resist the charm of augmented reality because they have been working in collaboration with Dassault Systèmes to transform their classic cereal boxes into interactive games and to be fair the results are simply amazing, learn more by watching the video below. This amazing packaging is soon to launch…
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Virtual reality is quickly changing what many gamers expect to see when they log in. For the past decade, most VR experiences were limited because headsets from groups like Oculus and Vive were price prohibitive for many. However, this is now changing as the range of headsets diversifies. In the next five years, Oculus’s chief scientist, Michael Abrash, predicts advances…
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VR News: While I am not going to get into the reasons, history or politics of the Partition of India in 1947 we all know that it was a bloody legacy that left over a million dead and millions more displaced and homeless. But now those original native Indians and Pakistanis are once again able to see their old homes,…
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VR News: When it comes to seeing your favourite artists live on stage there is no better experience. But sadly we all know that has not been possible for the last year or so, but at least things are finally starting to open up. But what if Covid numbers rise again? Could VR technology really be the future of live…
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