At AWE in June 2022 I tried the Lynx R1 Mixed Reality headset & the “pico neo 3” Virtual Reality headsets. Both featured Ultraleap Hand Tracking. Both are powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 chipset. Using both left me with two big impressions 1. Hand tracking is ready to replace controllers & 2. Mixed Reality is going to replace our phones soon in the next few years. — Article by Micah Blumberg: for info about Micah to follow like & share vrma.io

My 2nd impression of Tilt Five’s Holographic Gaming System completely changed my mind for the better. I concluded that this is the best value proposition in large Light Field Display technology anywhere. In hindsight I did not spend enough time with this the first time. The controller is also much better than I realized. — Story by Micah Blumberg, bio at http://vrma.io The Medical Imaging demo I tried at the Augmented World Expo in particular took it to the next level, at that point I realized it wasn’t just a gaming system, it is the best value proposition in Light Field Display technology for Students…

I had an amazingly positive first impression of Shores of Loci the other night. It strongly reminded me of some of the coolest dreams that I can only half remember. — Article by Micah Blumberg, (Micah’s about info can be found at http://vrma.io ) What are your favorite Virtual Reality (VR) applications? I’ve been covering the news of Virtual Reality since about 2015. In the past 7 years I have tried a huge number of Augmented Reality &…

Announced in January & launching today, services like Varjo’s Reality Cloud Platform are a plausible next step towards building the real Metaverse. It is a web-based solution allowing you to quickly share your original high resolution XR content creation from anywhere to any device securely & safely. — Article by Micah Blumberg, VRMA.io Varjo Reality Cloud lets you securely stream the most complex Mixed Reality & Virtual Reality applications, and 3D high resolution CAD models directly to Varjo’s headsets, like the Varjo XR-3, or to other devices such as phones, tablets, laptops, or other AR VR devices made…

Looking Glass Factory displays are like Virtual Reality without Glasses — A 3D display you can put in the window of your shop that will pull people in. I interviewed Co-Founder & CEO Shawn Frayne of Looking Glass Factory — Article & Interview by Micah Blumberg, about Micah: http://vrma.io These displays are also known as light field displays because they create a 3D image for each of your eyes, it achieves this with special curved…

Created by the folks who made Job Simulator & Vacation Simulator, Owlchemy Labs. I think it’s going to be a big hit in the VR world. I covered the story of Cosmonios High at GDC 2022 — Article & Video by Micah Blumberg, about Micah http://vrma.io Watch the story I created here: You can select a power for each hand. Examples would be water power or ice power, once you select it you will shoot water or ice from your hand.

At GDC 2022 I received a demo of two technologies that are being used to film the Kenobi series. The same technology is also being used to film the 4th Season of Star Trek Discovery but was not used for the first 3 seasons. Also Darth Vader will be part of the new series! — To make the tv series look amazing the Obi-wan Series will use Unreal Engine to put a set that was created inside a computer behind live actors during the film making of the new series. …

At GDC the Game Developer Conference, I spoke to the Chief Operating Officer at Genvid Technologies to try to understand some of the tools that AR, VR, Tablet, & Console Game Developers could use to create live massive multiplayer experiences. — Article by Micah Blumberg, about Micah http://vrma.io Genvid makes games, and they assist game developers in creating massive multiplayer live online games. Games that people could interact with from any device such as a tablet, phone, console, virtual reality headset or augmented reality smart glasses.

At the Game Developer Conference in March 2022. If you are into Web3 you will want to know about Web3auth and you will want to look at what Horizon Blockchain Games is doing. Transperfect will help you translate your games to new markets. …