Archives for Philosophy and Ethics
GTL Creates Virtual Reality Platform for Prisons
GTL announced that it created a VR platform for corrections that will be tested by an inmate control group to bring real world experiences to jails and prisons. VR Headset…
90 California Libraries will include Oculus Rifts
As part of a pilot education program, Oculus will deploy 100 Oculus Rifts in 90 different libraries across the state of California over the next three months. Oculus Education Pilot…
Charity Launch 3D-360 Film to Save Penguins
Virtual audiences can now be transported to a sub-Antarctic penguin colony to immerse themselves in the lives of penguin species, thanks to a new 360-3D film; Walk with Penguins - …
Oculus Co-Founder Palmer Luckey Finally Resigns
Palmer Luckey, one of Oculus VR original co-founders and creator of the Oculus Rift VR headset, is no longer working for Facebook or its Oculus division. Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook…
What is Full Dive Virtual Reality?
Full Dive VR is a full immersion virtual reality experience in which people would immerse themselves in virtually created environments like those from video games. People would not have the…
Oculus Rift co-Founder Funds Pro-Trump Campaign
Palmer Luckey, 24, known as the creator of the Oculus Rift VR headset, donated $10,000 to Nimble America. This a nonprofit organization that supports Donald Trump for the presidency of…
Articles Claiming that VR will bring the end of Civilization
Just as VR itself is inevitable, so are the articles predicting this technology will ruin civilization. The battle over whether virtual reality is safe for children (or adults for that…
Oculus Rift and Privacy – Fans Concerned about Privacy Issues
Oculus VR is a virtual reality technology company founded by American developers Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Although their product, known as Oculus Rift, is still under construction, the company…
Experiencing the News: Immersive Journalism
Experiencing the News: Immersive Journalism Immersive journalism is an emerging genre in which sound, video, and reporting are melded together and presented with virtual reality technology to put the consumer…
Big Year: IEEE’s 2015 VR Conference in France
Pundits Discuss VR's Break Into Mainstream 2015 is the Year of the Goat in Chinese calendars; just before Christmas of that year, Disney will release Star Wars Episode VII; the…