12Apr
HTC Vive Pro Review – First Impressions
- Posted by Holosphere
- On 12th April 2018
When new VR technology comes out, we sometimes have to restrain ourselves a bit. Not this time! With its recent release in mind, we wanted to write a HTC Vive Pro Review and document our initial thoughts as we tried it out in-house using some of our pre-built VR experiences. From first impressions, there isn’t a huge […]
10Apr
VR vs AR
- Posted by Holosphere
- On 10th April 2018
At the forefront of any tech-based revolution, there are often two formats or approaches locked in a battle for supremacy. Most recently, the word on the street is that it’s VR vs AR. All the while, Apple continues to fight Samsung for domination of the smartphone market. Both VHS / Betamax and Blu Ray / […]
01Mar
Is VR going social?
- Posted by Holosphere
- On 1st March 2018
As the price of virtual reality headsets continues to drop and the number of apps and games being developed for them increases, we wonder what sort of impact this will have on social vr and interpersonal relationships as we see it used more and more in the social space. It seems even some of the […]
28Feb
UX & VR – how immersion can help and hinder the user
- Posted by Larry Brangwyn
- On 28th February 2018
Virtual Reality opens up an entirely new way of interacting with the digital world. Not only can users see more of the environment around them, but they perceive and interact with things in different ways as well, leading to a new VR UX. Most advances in VR technology are designed to increase this sense of […]
21Feb
Object Tracking enables increased immersion in VR
- Posted by Katrine Loraas
- On 21st February 2018
In 2017 the world of virtual reality was introduced to the new HTC Vive trackers, which expands our VR experiences to a completely new level. It is now possible to bring real-world objects into virtual worlds using object tracking and there are almost no limits as to what we can track. “The Vive Tracker […]