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ImmersaCAD brings virtual reality to architecture without the puke factor

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Randall Newton

Avoiding virtual reality motion sickness was a key criteria for the development team. A startup with years of experience in ...

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Trimble debuts SketchUp Viewer for Microsoft HoloLens

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Randall Newton

Microsoft bills HoloLens as a “mixed reality” portal suitable for a new approach to design review. Trimble has announced a ...

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Autodesk Live for Revit gets VR

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Kathleen Maher

Autodesk Live gets VR button

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Blender stuffs the toy box in new release

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Randall Newton

Everybody’s favorite free 3D creation suite adds spherical stereo, improves the rendering, rewrites the Grease Pencil feature and more. The ...

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Taking the HP Omen virtual reality backpack for a test walk

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Jon Peddie

Jon Peddie is “genuinely delighted” by the possibilities this wearable PC offers. By Jon Peddie When HP announced the Omen ...

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Intel buys Nervana for the intelligence

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Robert Dow

Intel buys Nervana and gets a new business making Nervana chips and a development team well-versed in AI, deep learning, and accelerating those algorithms.

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VRX: The rise of a new content form

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Randall Newton

It isn’t film, it isn’t TV. What do we call new content made specifically for virtual reality?  Attached is a ...

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Siggraph promises “The Summer of VR” in VR Village

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Randall Newton

Juried and Invited content includes work from filmmakers, game developers, research labs, design, and more. Siggraph 2016 intends this year’s ...

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What’s in a logo?

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Randall Newton

The PTC pivot into an Internet of Things business is part of a larger redefinition of manufacturing. Today at the ...

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Putting attached hands inside virtual reality

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Randall Newton

Manus VR is close to releasing a commercial version of VR gloves for HTC Vive. Open source code gives it ...