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Why I Wasn’t Bored at CES 2017
CES 2017 has come and gone and left us all with a smattering of new tech product announcements and (I know I’m not alone in this) a lingering bug from…
Using Virtual Reality to Travel Inside the Human Brain
It’s hard not to be fascinated by virtual reality. The fantasy of being able to immerse yourself in a nonexistent environment and navigate as if you are part of it…
‘Virtually Real’ Exhibit Questions Imagined Gap Between Art & Science with 3D Technologies
Artists love to play with new tools, and push the boundaries of those tools. It should come as no surprise then that the arts community has embraced advanced technologies just…
Are We Living in The Matrix? Probably, Say Several Well-Respected Scientists
A few weeks ago, I started watching Westworld on HBO. I’m a few episodes behind, but it’s been really good so far – however, it’s also been more than a…
Virtual Reality Created by Robots Allows Jurors to Visit Crime Scenes Without Leaving the Courthouse
The jury is generally a pretty hard crowd to impress, and rightly so, as years, lives, and sums hang in the balance with what can sometimes result in severe judgment 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…
3D Printed Exo360 VR Aerial Drone Prototype Lands at CE Week NYC
Trying to capture live events, especially with fast moving subjects, is often an exercise in futility. It’s impossible to get everything. And even with a small crew, you’ve only got…
DARPA Develops Virtual Eye That Captures a Real Time Virtual Reality View Using Two Cameras
During a disaster situation, first responders benefit from one thing above anything else: accurate information about the environment that they are about to enter. Having foreknowledge of specific building layouts,…
ISIS-Destroyed Museum in Iraq Revived by Crowdsourcing and 3D Printing Technology
There’s no better way to enrich ourselves with human history than by immersing ourselves in it, visiting the museums and historical sites across the world that tell the story of…
Attention Shoppers! Enjoy 3D Retail Therapy From Your Couch at eBay’s Virtual Reality Department Store
“What if you could enter a department store that is just for you, one that has learned about you, adapted to what you like to shop for, and in time…
SpaceVR Raises $1.25 Million to Launch Virtual Reality Camera Satellites into Space
Traveling to space is about to get a whole lot easier in the near future thanks to the continuing advancement of virtual reality technology. San Francisco-based SpaceVR is set to…
3D & 4D Technology Market Expected to be Worth $314 Billion by 2022
While most of us are still sitting around waiting for Virtual Reality technology to happen, it already seems to be having an impact on the business world. Just about every…
3D Systems Partners with CHEST to Develop Standardized Bronchoscopy Curriculum Using VR-Powered Simbionix BRONCH Mentor
While a lot of the hype centered on Virtual Reality is being focused on video gaming, there are far more important and innovative uses for the technology on the horizon….
Doctors Without Borders Uses Virtual Reality and 3D Printing Technology to Build Better Hospitals
Most of the world knows the French organization that we call Doctors Without Borders as Médecins Sans Frontières, or just MSF. But whatever you call it, MSF is one of…
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,…
Body Labs Secures Exclusive Licenses and Patents for 3D Body Modeling and Virtual Reality Technologies
Manhattan-based 3D capture and 3D modelling company Body Labs is already one of the leading names in capturing and analyzing the human body’s shape and transforming it into fully-manipulable 3D…
J-CAD Inc Offers Free Virtual Reality 3D Printable Part Review and Inspection
Toronto-based design, prototyping and 3D printing service provider J-CAD has been offering their services to a global customer base since they launched back in 2006, and as anyone who communicates…
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…
Doctors Used Virtual Reality with Google Cardboard and Sketchfab to Save a Baby’s Life
Teegan was a medical case so rare that none of the doctors who worked with her had ever seen it. She was born with only a single lung and a strange…
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…
This Submersible 3D Printed Haptic Sonar Glove Lets You Feel Things Underwater Without Actually Touching Them
The concept behind haptic communication is quite simple, however the science that makes it possible is much more complicated. The basic process involves the simulation of a sense of touch…
