Tag: Virtual Reality
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire VR experience to open in Westfield Stratford
Due to a great response from fans and critics alike at the Westfield London location in Shepherd’s Bush, ILMxLAB and The VOID today have announced Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire, is moving to Westfield Stratford City next month. This first multi-sensory immersive virtual experience, has been designed to blur the line between the physical and virtual…
Filming beatboxing in VR with the Kodak PixPro – whatever next?
I may be showing my age, but when I first started off as a tech journalist back in the 1990s, TVs were virtually square, weighed a ton, and most people were listening to grunge music coming out of Seattle. Nearly 30 years later, everyone has a super light flat widescreen TV and early adopters (admittedly…
London landscapes: filming in 360 with Kodak PixPro 4K VR360 VR/action cam
Don't you just love those cold and crisp Autumn days when the sunlight glistens through the trees and the leaves make a crunching sound under foot. Well unfortunately the day we went down to the woods to film with the Kodak PixPro VR camera wasn't one of those days. Instead it was one of those horrible…
Tech Digest heads to North London’s Go Ape adventure centre to review Kodak PixPro VR camera
Last Saturday was a beautiful day. Not only was the weather glorious and sunny in London (though extremely cold), we also got to experience a treetop adventure at London's Alexandra Palace with Go Ape. It's one of their recently opened adventure centres in North London (they now have 31 across the UK) and offers stunning…
Tech Digest films London in VR with Kodak PixPro 4K VR360 camera
Tech Digest is really pleased to announce its latest partnership. Those nice people at Kodak have given us their brand new portable VR camera to shoot a series of eight short films in and around London before Xmas (I think we're gonna be a bit busy over the next few weeks). Called the Kodak PixPro 4K…
Which virtual reality headset should I buy? Our Top 6 VR choices for Christmas
For a long time, virtual reality was the preserve of geeks and techophiles looking to show off that they owned the latest hi-tech gadgets. However, that has begun to change with VR looking set to become mainstream in 2018 as prices fall and VR content improves through channels such as You Tube VR. The technology…
Why Virtual Reality will be big in 2018. Top 5 things to do with VR right now
Virtual reality (VR) could revolutionise our lives, from how we work to how we communicate with another, to the way we keep ourselves entertained. According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who paid a whopping $2bn (£1.2bn) for virtual reality firm Oculus in 2014, VR is the future. “Virtual reality was once the dream of science fiction.…
Could social platforms Altspace and Geekzonia help give VR a shot in the arm?
It's fair to say that the virtual and augmented reality market has grown significantly since 2010 when American teenager Palmer Luckey first created his VR headset prototype, which later evolved into the Oculus Rift. Yet despite the growing fascination with both AR and VR, the number of actual users still remains quite low – an…
Xbox One could get Oculus Rift style glasses, suggests new patent
The Xbox One may be set to get a head-mounted display accessory, after a newly unearthed patent adds wieght to the rumours from last year that Microsoft were working on a set of "Fortaleza Glasses". The patent, called the "Multiplayer…
VIDEO: Oculus Rift paired with an omnidirectional treadmill looks like the true next-gen gaming set-up
This is almost as dorky as it is insane: the video above shows the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming headset paired with an omnidirectional treadmill that allows gamers to physically run around their favourite first-person games. Forget the PS4 and…