Currently only available on Cardboard, the app is “coming soon” to the Rift and Gear VR. The app places you on stage at a Jack White concert and allows you to experience two songs. THIRD-D is another in a line of incredible experiences produced by Jaunt so far. It’s the next logical step for the music industry. Virtual reality concerts are coming, this is for sure. Jack White Launches THIRD-D VR App for Cardboard Another experience ( that has been shown before) ‘Strangers’ is an intimate look inside an artist’s apartment as they compose music, the experience is hauntingly beautiful. Nonny de la Peña, who is playing in the space of ‘immersive journalism’ (a personal favorite of mine, I hope this style of journalism catches on because it is so empathetically impactful) will be releasing a new project, Syria. Kaiju Fury! puts you in the middle of a “Godzilla-style” monster battle, and if you haven’t checked out the trailer yet, you should. So what is on the docket? Chris Milk will be bringing an experience called “Evolution of Verse” which is a CGI “journey from beginning to new beginning” that uses Google Cardboard. According to a CNN report, this year’s festival will be riddled with VR film experiences, nine of them to be exact. Every year a few greats end up emerging from this festival, and this year one of those greats might end up being the first great VR director. The Sundance Film Festival is one of the largest and most important film festivals in the country, bringing together thousands of the most talented filmmakers in the world. VR movies are going to dominate at Sundance Henry’s experience in consumer-facing technology further suggests that Magic Leap is aiming at a consumer AR/VR product.
As reported in Venture Beat, former Beats by Dre CFO, Scott Henry, will step in as the CFO at Magic Leap. Magic Leap is so shrouded in mystery right now that any news they release is potentially exciting.
If this study holds true for humans, it could have a far-reaching impact on how games and experiences are structured in VR. The researchers found that when they placed the rats in the virtual world, the GPS neurons fired off seemingly at random, as opposed to the controllable patterns they had identified in their previous study. If you’ve ever been driving somewhere familiar, zone out to music or something, then boom you find yourself there as if by magic, you have experienced the power of your brain’s GPS cells. This is how the brain can help you navigate. The study comes on the heels of the 2014 Nobel Prize winning discovery that the brain produces “GPS cells” which helps create a mental map of the environment. Researchers have found, by recording the brain activity of rats on tiny treadmills in VR, that in the virtual world, the rodents did not form the same mental map of their surroundings that they do in real life demonstrating that VR has the ability to play with your brain (something any experienced Rifter is well aware of). Credit: Mayank Mehta Scientists find VR affects the brain’s ‘GPS Cells’ Check out the excellent reviews by Ben Lang over at Road to VR (but come back, there’s tons more!): Part 1, Part 2 Top down view of a rat in a VR maze. So far, the Gear VR has received a lot of praise from the community, who are embracing the idea of mobile VR. A number of careful followers of the space had managed to peg Monday as the release day, after a slide at the mHealth summit that showed that as the day of launch made its way around the internet. MondayĪfter weeks of rumors and rumblings, Samsung finally dropped the Gear VR on the world, and it is beautiful. This week was among the biggest ever for VR, and in case you were too lost in your new Gear VR to notice everything that happened, from Cardboard to Nimble, we’ve got you covered. Have you had a chance to catch your breath yet from all the crazy announcements in VR this week? Yeah, me neither.
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