Samsung recently announced a new retail price for its 360-degree camera, Gear 360. The new price of $229 positions the Samsung Gear 360 competitively among an increasingly competitive field. While the new Gear 360 includes several new usability enhancements and technical capabilities, such as a handle, iPhone compatibility, 4k resolution and live streaming on Facebook and YouTube, the biggest implication … Read More
The Optis Presence at LiveWorx 2017
LiveWorx Technology Conference 2017 took place from May 22nd to the 25th at the Boston Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The event brought together a mix of technology companies working largely within the manufacturing space. The message of LiveWorx 2017 was clear: The manufacturing industry must change with the evolution of VR/AR technologoy. On the showroom floor, virtual prototyping company Optis conveyed this … Read More
Coming to Your Screens 2017: Colin McMahon to Deliver Keynote on Immersive Worlds
“It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.” - Charles Stross, Renown Science Fiction Author Colin McMahon, Analyst with Greenlight Insights, will give the keynote presentation at Coming to Your Screens Montreal 2017. His talk, titled Immersive Worlds: Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities … Read More
Digital Hollywood 2017: Macklin To Lead Discussion on Funding and Business Development for VR and AR
Greenlight Insights forecasts global VR-related revenues to reach $7 billion by the end of 2017. As spending on headsets and gaming content drives near-term industry growth, new sectors will emerge as new catalysts for future growth. One promising sector is the location-based entertainment (LBE) industry. Several companies offering virtual reality technology for the LBE industry have received significant investments from … Read More
HTC, Qualcomm Partner With Google To Welcome New Era For Standalone VR
This week at its annual developer conference, Google announced a standalone VR headset through a partnership with HTC. The standalone VR HMD will run on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 835 mobile processor and is set to be released by the end of 2017. Standalone: The Future of Content Consumption Standalone headsets are important to the future of the industry as consumers and … Read More