Welcome to our recurring post, 3D Interactive Tech Talk, highlighting how interactive technology is being used right now and where it’s headed.
Immersive Virtual Reality Will Help You Experience News
Thanks to technologies like Oculus Rift, media outlets are creating news experiences that put you in the event, making it much more impactful than even the most powerful writing. And it goes beyond what you’d expect: “It’s an instinctual medium, which means that you can make thought go away,” he explains. If you hear a sound to your right in the virtual world, for example, you just turn to your right. There is no thinking. “We’re actually hitting the brain at a different place, [and] we can really start engaging the parts of the brain that are instinctual, and certainly very primitive.”
Survios Raises $4M In Serial A Funding
The virtual reality headset is “best described as a ‘Kinect-meets-Oculus-Rift’ — it tracks your own physical movements, and incorporates them into a 3D virtual world that you view through an immersive headset.” Gaming is about to get VERY interesting – and game-based technology (including training) can expect to benefit greatly.
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