Virtual Reality
Attention All 3D Printing, Robotics and Virtual Reality Startups: Applications Now Being Accepted for Frontier Tech Showdown
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that some of the biggest household names in the 3D printing industry began as one- or two-person ventures. Take 3D Hubs, for example. Anyone at…
According to Futurists We Will Be 3D Printing Underwater Cities, House-Moving Drones and Even Our Meals within 100 Years
Being a futurist has to be a pretty great job. Not only do you get to spend all of your time thinking about how the world is going to be…
Sketchfab & TimeSlice Films Introduce 4D Scan Using Massive Array of Cameras
3D scanning is already pretty cool. Being able to capture a full, 360 degree image of a person, animal, object or even place, and then instantly digitize it, is an…
What Is This, a House for Fleas? Canadian 3D Printing Services Company Makes 440 Very Small Augmented Reality Homes
Thank’s to one of Canada’s very first 3D printing services providers, global animal and pet health and pharmaceutical company Zoetis was able to run the world’s largest 3D printing and…
USC Researchers Working on Free Gaming Avatar Program Using 3D Scans
A University of Southern California research team has revolutionized modern communication by including users as part of its software. Individuals can now scan their own faces and bodies, upload these features into a…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — February 13
This week’s 3D printing news begins with news of a Golden Mousetrap award for Stratasys in the category of Materials and Assembly. 3D software company 3YOURMIND has partnered with Vectorworks…
3DPrint.com Introduces Job Search: Find Your Next 3D Printing/Tech-Related Job Here!
While the 3DPrint.com staff and I get to spend all day, every day delving into the depths of 3D printing and other high-tech wonders of our age, we know that…
Depth-Sensing Cameras Will Soon Turn Every Smartphone into a High-Quality 3D Scanner
It looks like the depth-sensing time-of-flight camera technology that was developed and popularized for projects like the Xbox Kinect and the ZCam are already showing up in the next generation…
Tokyo Tech Students Design a Prototype for an Interactive Mixed Reality Design Tool
Within the next few years virtual reality is going to be a huge part of our lives. Not only will it affect the way that we consume media like movies,…
It Looks Like Apple is Finally Jumping into the Virtual Reality Market
While Apple has always been notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to ongoing projects and technology development, it seemed a little off that we haven’t heard much from them concerning virtual…
3D Technology-Powered Self-Driving Cars Will Be a Personal Privacy Nightmare
With virtually every car manufacturer on the planet heavily investing in the development or research of self-driving or assistive driving technology, driverless cars are virtually guaranteed to play a huge…
Focus on Virtual Reality: HP to Release Sprout Pro in February, Retailing at $2199
While it may seem to many that it was just yesterday HP was announcing their entry into the 3D market, as well as promoting their immersive new desktop PC called…
A Day in the Life of Lebron: Samsung’s Gear VR Takes You Inside King James’ Training Regimen
Remember the “Be Like Mike” commercial from the 1990s? It featured Michael Jordan doing all sorts of cool things, like playing basketball (naturally), hanging out with neighborhood kids, and, most…
VICE Takes a Look at the Future of Interactive Virtual Reality Pornography With Tori Black (NSFW)
They say that you should never learn how the sausage is made, because the chances are that you’ll never be able to eat the sausage again. I don’t think that…
Today’s 3D Virtual Reality Scanners by FARO Can Be Used to Understand and Make or Break a Courtroom Case
While there often seems to be a euphoric, worldwide 3D printing party going on, resulting in one new gizmo after another that we can barely stand to pass up, the…
Sketchfab Introduces New Virtual Reality Setting: Walk Inside a 3D Scene with the Click of a Button
This morning, I visited the home of Vincent van Gogh. His blue-walled bedroom was so well-kept that I almost believed he would return any minute and demand to know who…
World’s First Mobile VR Social Network vTime Hits CES 2016
Virtual Reality sometimes seems like one of those technologies that just sound too futuristic to be fully adopted in my lifetime, like flying cars or jetpacks it just seemed too…
Oculus Rift Delights Eventgoers at CES 2016; Promises Delivery of VR Headsets at $599 in March
Oculus Rift is seriously intense in every way. Not only is it an enormous business enterprise on its own, acquired by Facebook in 2014 for $2 billion, but this virtual…
MecklerMedia Announces Several New Dates for Virtual Reality Summit in 2016, in Conjunction with Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo
MecklerMedia has been holding its Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo in cities all over the world since 2013. This October, the corporation held its first Virtual Reality Summit in Santa Clara….
Lowe’s and Made In Space will Launch First Commercial 3D Printer into Space and First In-Store VR Design Tool
The first permanent 3D printing facility on the International Space Station (ISS) is being made possible thanks to a partnership between Lowe’s Innovation Labs and Made In Space, the creators…
SpaceVR’s Virtual Reality Space Experience To Be Enabled By In-space 3D Printed Camera Casing
It’s an interesting bit of information. Of the 108 billion people who’ve ever lived, only 536 have ever seen the the Earth from space in person and in real-time. As…
3D Printed Virtual Reality Headset Adds Appealing Form to High-Tech Function
When Shapeways designer Masaharu Ono began conceiving of his elaborate, 3D printed virtual reality (VR) headset, chances are that he didn’t find much inspiration on the web. An image search…
Microsoft Uploads 3D Printable Schematics to Better The Quality Of Your Oculus Rift Lenses
Virtual reality has been promising to change the way we all interact with the world around us for years now. With that said, the technology has yet to reach a point…
Sketchfab Receives $7 Million in Series A Funding from FirstMark Capital; Expanding Further into VR/AR
Sketchfab is a world unto itself. Featuring a unique platform for checking out and integrating 3D content into your own social media or files, you can get lost in viewing,…
