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IMAX VR hit; Vive Tracker code released; React VR; face navigation; turning aeroplanes into dragons; holographic show booths; David Bowie; AI is the next frontier.
From the implications of social VR and how Hollywood actors feel about VR, to profitability strategies for indie devs and ways to minimise motion sickness, find out why VR is the most exciting new medium in years.
Ryan Booth carries out an endoscopy and freefalls into a parachute jump at last week’s Islington event.
John Riccitiello tells us that despite seeing the beauty of VR/AR, the consumer package is incomplete.
We’ve compiled all the big stories and announcements from Facebook’s 10th annual developer conference into one executive summary, from Camera Effects and social Spaces to computer learning and AI.
Chief Scientist of Oculus Research, Michael Abrash, on the challenges of achieving AR’s always-on potential and how it will change everything.
What if you could type directly from your brain? F8 suggests the next real OS could be mind control - what would George Orwell's thought police make of that?
Social media leader declares its intention at F8 to take AI out of the data centre and into your phone. So by extension, your standalone VR/AR HMD...
Day two of F8 kicks off with CTO’s vision for the next 10 years; from computer learning to the future of video and the company’s updated 10-year plan for AR/VR.
Announced and launched on day one of the F8 event, Facebook Spaces is the first social VR from the Californian social media company.
Facebook reveals Camera Effects, including Frame Studio and AR Studio at F8; photo and video filters with promising potential. Also, Mass Effect: Andromeda.
Social media CTO details AI progress in computer vision and object recognition at F8, aims to squeeze it all into your cell phone.
AR first, VR and AI too - immersive technology dominates the opening address at the social media leader’s F8 event.
How to fund your project; VR dangers; $7bn 2017; AI and journalism; castAR; future of TV; Ricky Gervais and Magic Leap; Project CARS 2.
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