Virtual Reality

Photogrammetry capture brings the Royal Opera House to life in VR. Developed by makemepulse in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture and Château de Versailles, VersaillesVR – The Palace Is Yours, a free app available now on SteamVR-compatible headsets that allows you to tour a hyper-realistic recreation of France’s famous Palace of Versailles in VR. 

It will be over a year after Fallout 76 was launched in November 2018, but Bethesda said that it will finally roll out a public test server for the polarizing online RPG. In a blog post, Bethesda revealed that it is currently working on a public test server for Fallout 76, with the aim of

Move over Halloween, this October is all about Minecraft Earth. Returning once again to celebrate all things Minecraft, Mojang kicked off its annual MINECON Live event yesterday, revealing a bevy of new updates coming to the core experiences, a new cinematic for their upcoming spin-off title Minecraft Dungeons, as well as an official board game. 

Websites could soon become more responsive and more secure as they adopt a new version of HTTP. Cloudflare, the web infrastructure company which provides security and DNS support for a significant portion of the internet, announced it is rolling out preliminary support for HTTP/3 this week. The Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers will be

Filmmakers Sam Wickert and Eric Leigh started their channel in junior high. Three years later, they went viral and their lives changed for good. Talk to any kid today and they’ll likely tell you how cool it would be to become a YouTube star. Many of them already have YouTube channels set up. The dream

Bellator MMA is coming to California this weekend, with The Forum arena in Inglewood hosting Bellator 228. Mixed martial arts fans are anticipating an action-packed night, with the main and preliminary cards featuring a combined 16 fights – the main event being a featherweight title showdown between defending champion Patricio “Pitbull” Freire and Juan Archuleta.

Nintendo Switch Lite “Small improvements make the Switch Lite a mini triumph.” Comfortable design Sharp and vibrant display Solid battery life Brings back the iconic D-pad Affordable Slightly smaller game library No TV mode support No motion controls With the release of the Nintendo Switch — the company’s hybrid, grab-and-go console — Nintendo finally found

Native hand tracking, PC/standalone hybrid functionality, and new games confirmed for the Oculus platform.  That’s officially a wrap on Oculus Connect 6. Facebook’s annual developer conference dedicated to all things Oculus brought its A-game this year, delighting users with a series of bombshell Quest announcements that included native hand tracking and upcoming cross-compatibility with Rift

Ford is taking its autonomous car testing program to the Lone Star State. Austin, Texas, is the latest testing location for Ford’s prototype self-driving cars, joining Detroit, Pittsburgh, Miami, and Washington, D.C. Ford’s ultimate goal is to get an autonomous car into production within the next few years. Ford chose Austin because of the city’s

Force abilities add a whole new layer of fun to an already incredible experience. I’m trapped within a sprawling underground manufacturing complex on the volcanic planet of Mustafar, my back to the wall as a massive Rancor makes several desperate strikes at me with its gargantuan claws. The only thing keeping me alive is a

Chromebooks have grown up over the past few years. They’re faster, better built, and more attractive than ever. That also means they’ve increased in price. Options like the HP Chromebook x2 can easily break the $500 mark, while the Pixelbook will push you closer to $1,000. Fortunately, cheaper models are available too, though you’ll need

Dedicated Fandango VR app now available on Oculus standalone headsets. Day One of Oculus Connect 6 in San Jose, CA featured a bunch of exciting announcements for both the Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S headsets. Hidden within this pile of breaking news was the launch of FandangoNow, a dedicated VR app for the Oculus

Kevin Feige, the superstar producer behind the Marvel cinematic universe, will bring his talents to an upcoming Star Wars movie. Feige, the head of Marvel Studios, will work with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy to develop a “wave” of Star Wars projects, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “With the close of the Skywalker Saga, Kathy is

The historic WWII FPS shooter makes a surprise appearance at OC6. Back at Oculus Connect 4 in 2017, it was revealed that Oculus Studios would be teaming up with veteran developer Respawn Entertainment [Titanfall 2, Apex Legends] on a new VR game exclusively for the Oculus platform. Today we learned that title is a new

Facebook wants to create a 3D map of the Earth by crowd-sourcing geo-tagged images.  After months of speculation, Facebook today confirmed that Facebook Reality Lab is, in fact, developing a pair of dedicated AR glasses. While little information about the headset itself was provided during the announcement, the company went into detail regarding LiveMaps, a

Previous Next Legions of electric car startups have sprung up with hopes of repeating the success of Tesla, but Canoo (formerly known as EVelozcity) is trying something different. Instead of building a luxury car with science-fiction performance figures and a high price tag, Canoo’s electric car — also called Canoo — looks like a futuristic

The Oculus Quest app will allow users to turn any game into a calorie-tracked fitness experience. The first time I worked up a sweat in VR, it was entirely accidental. I was playing a fantasy hack-and-slash, and the core battle mechanic required players to duck oncoming sword swings every few seconds. I played for about

The celebrated zombie-shooter receives its second and largest DLC release this October. Originally scheduled for release this past August, VR publisher and developer Vertigo Games today confirmed that the latest expansion to their 2016 zombie-shooter, Arizona Sunshine, will be arriving on Oculus, SteamVR, and PSVR October 3rd.  [embedded content] Set before the events of the

Julian Chokkattu/Digital Trends With the recent release of the new Apple Watch, prices of previous models have dropped across all the top online stores. The Apple Watch Series 3 has even slid back to its best price ever on most sites after an incredible $80 markdown. Best Buy one-upped the competition by offering a free

Emerging technologies could add a whole new level of immersion to VR. If you’re reading this right now, chances are, you’re not really familiar with the topic of neuroevolution. Or deep learning. Or natural language processing. Frankly, this is normal– these are all smaller subsets of artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s still a new, competitive,

If you’re looking for a tablet that you can use for both your personal and professional life, then the Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 10.5-inch Tablet with S Pen is a great choice. It’s an Android tablet that can deliver a PC-like experience while also offering a sketchpad functionality. Today is your perfect opportunity to grab

The 71st annual Emmy Awards have concluded, and eager TV fans were able to see which actors and series took home the statue in the top categories. In terms of nominations,  unsurprisingly, given its series wrap-up, Game of Thrones dominated with a record-breaking 32 nominations, 10 more than the series had last year. Seven of

DronOSS’ standalone AR technology offers safer training for would-be pilots. In a video published to the companies official YouTube channel earlier this month, German start-up DronOSS demonstrated the technology behind its ARbox, a remote AR device capable of transmitting positional, rotational, and other key location-based data to a client app installed on a standard smart

Passwords kind of suck. Or, rather, people kind of suck at passwords. Even after the plethora of cyber-attacks people have witnessed in recent years, the most commonly used password in 2019 is “123456.” “Qwerty” and “password” follow in quick succession. In a time when our lives are more digitized than ever, when an account being breached

Create a custom avatar for social events and work meetings. The process is simple, you take a quick selfie on your phone and the app then analyzes your photo and creates a 3D representation of your likeness. You then take a few minutes to polish up your VR avatar to look even more like you

There has never been a better time to grab yourself a slice of Apple’s pie, whether you’re looking to grab one of the newest iPhones around or take advantage of the lowered prices for older iPhone models. While Apple’s specs and iOS 13 ensure your day-to-day performance is silky smooth, there are parts of the experience that

Karen Ducey/Getty Images People all over the world are participating in September 20’s global climate strikes. They’re taking place in cities from Alice Springs, Australia to Jakarta, Indonesia to New York City. Police estimate 100,000 protesters gathered around Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.  A coalition of organizations worked to raise awareness about the strikes, but it started

The free-to-play tournament will be open to all players, so long as they have the virtual dough. Next Friday, PokerStars VR will kick off their inaugural PokerStars Virtual Reality Poker Tournament, offering players the chance to obtain eternal poker glory and join the ranks of fellow PokeStars legends. Composed of three virtual “stops,” the tournament

Ronan Glon/Digital Trends Front-wheel drive (FWD), rear-wheel drive (RWD), and four- or all-wheel drive (4WD or AWD): You’ve probably heard these terms kicked around before. They’re the three main types of engine and transmission layouts for motor vehicles, and they’re often used to classify and group cars. Further reading Not all layouts are created equal,

Master the art of mixing music anywhere at any time. Available now on Oculus Quest, Tribe XR DJ School is an interactive DJ simulation experience that teaches you the skills required to mix music on a professional level. Originally released on SteamVR back in March, the standalone experience offers the same all-in-one DJ training package