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Facebook Introduces More Realistic Avatars for Virtual Reality Facebook Spaces
Creating an avatar of yourself can be fun, especially when you have plenty of options to work with in terms of hair color and style, face shape, clothing, etc. I…
Pinshape Announces Winners of Latest 3D Design Contest – Design Your Future Avatar
In July, 3D printing community and marketplace Pinshape partnered with Mold3D Academy for a contest centered around virtual sculpting. In the Design Your Future Avatar Contest, sponsored by Formlabs, Oculus, ZBrush,…
Making, Learning, Collaborating, and 3D Printing in the Community: Dayton Mini Maker Faire
Back in March, when I visited Dayton, Ohio’s resident 3D printing bar, Proto BuildBar, I was told that its employees would be exhibiting at a local school’s STEMfest later that…
Sketchfab Viewer Can Now Be Embedded Into Your Tweets
Do you love to tweet? If so, you join hundreds of millions around the world who love to send out micro-messages, whether making a comment from their personal or business…
Reach Out & Grab Hold: Dexmo Exoskeleton Takes Virtual Reality to the Next Level
Most of us have still have so many faraway places we’d like to see, sports and activities we’d like to try, not to mention a host of dreams that we,…
Step Inside Your Minecraft World With New Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Version
The popularity of Minecraft is unlike that of any other game. The world-building video game is an obsession with several children (and adults) I know, and last I heard it had…
Recent Report Offers Projections for VR & AR Through 2025; Expect AR Technology to Lead
A report on both augmented and virtual reality has just been released, outlining what you should expect to see in regards to its success and usage in the future. In…
Attach, Capture, View! Eye-Plug Lets You Create Your Own Virtual Reality World from Your Android Phone
Do you spend more time reading and dreaming about 3D technology than you do actually using it? While products and prices are changing rapidly there is still an affordability and…
In the Eyes of the Animal: Viewers Don Grass-Covered Virtual Reality Headset Pods, Frolic as British Bats & More
Last year, we had a week of thunderstorms nearly every day. It was breezy and dramatic, and I took to opening the front door for hours during the day, and…
Retail Therapy Patients: Try Taking It to the Next Level With Virtual & Augmented Reality
Whether you are building a new home and buying all new furniture, remodeling, or just adding a new couch and chair to spruce up the living room, adding to your…
Having Problems Fitting Your Oculus Rift Over Your Glasses? Try This Simple 3D Printed Adapter!
Sometimes it’s rough having glasses. They fall off, they fog up, they get scratched, and it’s ridiculous trying to wear sunglasses over them – not to mention a virtual reality…
The Oculus Rift Terms of Service are a Chilling Reminder That the Company is Owned by Facebook
The advertising algorithms employed by Facebook are the stuff of legend, and for years they have been plagued by privacy advocates as invasive and excessive. Because Facebook is a free…
The New Easy-to-Use Gravity Sketch 3D Modelling App for the iPad is Now Available
One of the barriers to a wider adoption of 3D technology is the difficulty of creating 3D printable models. For many people who may be interested in creating 3D models,…
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…
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…
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…
Bonsai Lab Launches the World’s First Voice Controlled 3D Printer: The Sub-$500 FabPod
Even as industrial 3D printing is exploding, the desktop 3D printer market is starting to soften a bit, so many 3D printer manufacturers are looking to find new ways to…
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…
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…
Construction of 3D Printed Robot Avatar Begins – Allowing Hospitalized Children to Visit the Zoo
You’ve likely seen James Cameron’s 2009, $2.788 billion box office hit, Avatar. The year is 2154 and humans have depleted the earth of its natural resources. Therefore, they are forced…
RoboSavvy’s Amazing New 3D Printed Humanoid Robot Utilizes Oculus Rift and a Segway for Control
I have said it once, and I’ll say it again. 3D printing and robots will continue their inevitable convergence, leading to completely custom robots which can perform virtually any human-like…
