Category: Social

Mozilla launches Hubs, a social browser-based WebVR experiment

Mozilla is continuing its mission to make the browser a core facet of virtual reality (VR) today with the launch of Hubs, a WebVR experiment from the mixed reality team at Mozilla, which touts this latest app as an “immersive social experience.”

You begin by visiting the Hubs portal through any browser, then you choose a name for your virtual room, a robotic avatar, and a name for yourself, and you can enter the virtual world. To interact with friends, you can then copy/paste the URL and share a dedicated link with them.

Author vromitPosted on July 27, 2019Categories SocialLeave a comment on Mozilla launches Hubs, a social browser-based WebVR experiment

Be a cute VR-tuber with Virtual Cast

Virtual Cast is a solution that lets you be a Virtual Youtuber.

Author vromitPosted on May 4, 2019Categories Social, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Be a cute VR-tuber with Virtual Cast

Person finding VR lowers Multiple Sclerosis symptoms

Author vromitPosted on November 18, 2018Categories SocialLeave a comment on Person finding VR lowers Multiple Sclerosis symptoms

Owlchemy Lab Report: Mobile Spectator – AR Spectator Camera Experiment

Mobile Spectator is a fun way to share a VR experience with players outside of the HMD, utilizing a tool everyone already has in their pockets— a smart phone!

We are always looking for new and unique ways to explain the magic of VR at a glance. Our Mixed Reality R&D experiments were a first step, but we recently set out to see if we could create a different way to view VR— one without the prohibitive space and hardware requirements of mixed reality.

Author vromitPosted on November 18, 2018Categories Social, TechnicalLeave a comment on Owlchemy Lab Report: Mobile Spectator – AR Spectator Camera Experiment

Interesting speech on how VR empowers people to go further in understanding and expressing themselves

Author vromitPosted on September 23, 2018Categories SocialLeave a comment on Interesting speech on how VR empowers people to go further in understanding and expressing themselves

Announcing OC5 Livestreaming in Oculus Venues

Oculus Venues: Your Virtual Ticket to OC5

We partnered with Supersphere to let the VR community feel there without being there, thanks to a social VR livestream with Oculus Venues on Oculus Go and Gear VR. Given the uniquely social nature of Venues, you can chat with fellow fans in the crowd, share commentary as events unfold, and even move seats to get to know more people in VR.

Beginning at 10:00 am PT on September 26, you can join us LIVE as the OC5 keynote unfolds, including all the latest VR and developer news.

Author vromitPosted on September 23, 2018Categories Innovation, SocialLeave a comment on Announcing OC5 Livestreaming in Oculus Venues

Look at what Google knows about you

The following is a set of links that let’s you see exactly what Google knows about you. The good part is that it’s you manage that information if you want to delete anything.

A complete map of where you’ve been at what date and time since you started using Google on your phone.
Your entire online and search activity across all your devices.
Your advertising profile.
What apps you use.
Your entire YouTube history.

And you can download it all as one big file.

Author vromitPosted on April 1, 2018Categories SocialLeave a comment on Look at what Google knows about you

Touching Masterpieces – Haptic VR for the Blind

This is a pretty touching and amazing video on enabling Blind people use VR headsets to be able to ‘see’ art in a tactile way in a much more meaningful way than just imagining it in their heads.

Author vromitPosted on April 1, 2018Categories SocialLeave a comment on Touching Masterpieces – Haptic VR for the Blind

Drax Interviews Dr. Jeremy Bailenson on the Impact of Virtual Reality on Society

Today, Draxtor Despres interviewed Dr. Jeremy Bailenson, who is a professor of communication at Stanford University and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab. He has written a newly-published book titled Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do, which is an in-depth look at virtual reality and how it can be harnessed to improve our everyday lives. Jeremy said that this interview was the longest time he had ever spent so far in a social VR app!