April: the month of Easter eggs, days off and the first glimpses of the summer ahead. It was a busy month for us, here’s a quick recap of what we’ve been up to:
- Westfield Future Fashion VR Experience: A summary
- In case you missed our AEC sector event, catch up here
- We announced our event for Digital Shoreditch 2015: Evolving Realities
- Our South Bank Tower project was nominated at the Install Awards!
- Our Topshop VR Experience were named in the top four 3D projects by CreativePool
- Virtual Vertigo experience made its debut on the Paul O’Grady Show!
But what else was happening in the tech-verse? Read on to catch up on all the headlines of this past month.
- “Cameras roll on a Virtual Reality Future”
- Turns out 3D printing using Easy Cheese isn’t so easy, after all
- Could Augmented Reality windows really be on the horizon for Airbus?
- The numbers are in: apparently the AR and VR market could be worth $150 billion by 2020 thanks, in large part, to VR cinema and gaming
- A group in Spain have used holographic projections to protest new anti-dissent/protest laws in the country
- Sony want to make their Project Morpheus a ‘social experience’
- “Eating the Uncanny Valley” aka virtual reality and the world of food
- Ahead of the release of most major VR HMDs, success will hinge primarily on the quality of the early content
- Virtual journalism: could virtually putting viewers face-to-face with combatants help to communicate complex issues?
- “Daft-looking” augmented reality driving goggles the future for MINI?
- “[Don’t] overstep a boundary. You could traumatise people if you overdo it”: challenges of VR filmmaking
- Oculus founder, Palmer Luckey, talks the pros and cons of using virtual reality for social good
- Two Australian universities have produced a ‘working 3D holographic display’ using graphene
- “Why the VR waiting game is great for those who dare to dream”