YRGrid, known as a Bitcoin-based gambling grid, released its user statistics today, including geographical distribution and viewer usage. The single biggest source of users for the grid is the United States, which accounts for…
Bitcoin-based YRGrid popular in U.S., Saudia Arabia–and Romania Read More »
After a dispute between the partners of Digital Worlds Group, a US-based company offering content creation, development, and OpenSim hosting services, the group’s DigiWorldz grid has been split off as its own company, now based…
Battle looms over DigiWorldz grid ownership Read More »
Scientists at China’s University of Science and Technology of China and the Microsoft Research in Beijing have built a deep learning machine that outperforms an average human on the verbal analogies portion of the IQ test — normally…
Chinese computer beats human in IQ test Read More »
Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects company founded by George Lucas 40 years ago to work on Star Wars, is launching a lab specifically for virtual reality projects — and will begin with Star Wars….
Star Wars coming to virtual reality Read More »
This week, Oculus VR demonstrated the new consumer version of the Oculus Rift headset, due to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016, as well as a couple of controllers — a…
Oculus shows off new headset, controllers Read More »
A little while ago, I noticed a familiar headline in a Google alert on a topic I follow — it was my own article, reprinted without permission on some other site! I quickly sent off…
Here’s how to file DMCA takedowns‒no lawyer needed Read More »
The Adult Metaverse and OpenSim Virtual are still gaining members on Google Plus, but at about half the rate as last month. Adult Metaverse gained 54 new users, the biggest growth of any OpenSim-specific community,…
Google Plus communities slow growth Read More »
Kitely has cut prices for its largest regions by more than half today and officially eliminated metered pricing for new customers. Previously, the most expensive plan was around $100 a month, for an island…
Kitely cuts prices 60% for large regions Read More »
Last night, on In World Review, a major topic of discussion was how horrendously difficult Blender is to use. You can’t just install it and start playing around. I tried, and it almost killed…
I edited a mesh in Blender–and you can too Read More »
Lenovo debuted a new virtual reality headset, the Lenovo VR Goggles, at Lenovo Tech World in Beijing this week. The headset will work with Android phones, but there’s no word yet about pricing or availability. Read…
Lenovo debuts new virtual reality headset Read More »
Seattle development firm Luma has partnered with Studio216 and DEI Creative to create virtual reality experiences for potential condo buyers. The experience requires Oculus Rift headsets, but Studio216 also has virtual reality apps that can…
VR helps sell condos in Seattle Read More »
Virtual reality will be “the next mega tech theme” and worth more than $60 billion in a decade, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. “The diverse applications of VR in combination with accelerating technological…
Analyst: VR is next mega tech trend Read More »
Virtual reality will be “the next mega tech theme” and worth more than $60 billion in a decade, according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. “The diverse applications of VR in combination with accelerating technological…
Analyst: VR is next mega tech trend Read More »
Virtual reality poster child Oculus VR has just acquired Surreal Vision, a computer vision firm that works on real-time 3D scene reconstruction. “By achieving the ability to continuously reconstruct and track the world around us,…
Oculus buys computer vision firm Read More »
Google released an updated design for Google Cardboard this week. It supports larger screen sizes — up to 6 inch diameter — and replaces the magnet with a button or access point that touches…
Where to get new Google Cardboard cases Read More »
