Jonathan Nafarrete
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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AltspaceVR Offers Social Reach For Organizers In VR
Share TweetAltspace, the popular social VR app that is most notably compatible with both 3DOF and 6DOF VR headsets, is becoming efficient for users looking to get groups of people to connect and organize within VR. On a technical level, AltspaceVR has received a series of updates designed for event organizers to host audiences on … → Read More
Adidas Originals Reinvents Sneaker Drop With AR
Share TweetThe exclusive product release comes to Complex Con. Instead of waiting in long lines for the latest sneaker drop at streetwear convention ComplexCon this weekend, adidas Originals will let you shop in augmented reality. The two-day long convention is sure to see its fair share of top sneaker brands revealing new products, but adidas … → Read More
Google Rebrands AR Stickers as Playground; Introduces 3D AR Animation
Share TweetWhile there wasn’t much news on the VR front from Google at today’s New York hardware event except from learning that the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL are compatible with Daydream View VR headsets, Google did introduce a new slate augmented reality (AR) stickers that will have you taking selfies with Iron Man. … → Read More
HaptX Gloves Can Help Transform VR Training and Design
Share TweetReach out and touch a rain cloud. Standing in front of a tiny farm house diorama, I reached out my hand and brushed it through a bundle of golden brown wheat sprouting from the ground. I could feel every blade of grain run across the surface of my hand. I then extended out my … → Read More
Inside Two Bit Circus’ Los Angeles VR Amusement Park
Share TweetThe future of amusement parks has arrived. Something big is coming to LA—and it isn’t the dark and dreary Chuck E Cheese’s you may remember growing up as a kid. It also isn’t your local VR arcade of today either, which is often focused on screening individual VR games, an approach reminiscent of going … → Read More
Chrome Launches on Daydream
Share TweetBrowse the web in VR. If you want to give VR web-browsing a try for yourself, now you can. Google announced Monday that Chrome is now integrated into Daydream, letting you browse the web with your Google Daydream View and Lenovo Mirage Solo headset. You can launch Chrome directly from your homepage to browse … → Read More
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Host Live VR Show at Comic-Con
Share TweetNickelodeon let you talk to Michelangelo and Donatello. Select fans got a surprise they weren’t expecting when they put on a VR headset to check out the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle experience at Comic-Con. Instead of just dropping into a pre-recorded VR experience, users got to conduct a live interview with Mikey or … → Read More
Mr. Mercedes VR Escape Room Hits Comic-Con
Share TweetThe interactive pop-up shop included both a VR and AR game. For the upcoming season 2 premiere of Stephen King’s Mr. Mercedes original series, AT&T let Comic-Con fans enter a VR escape room inside Brady’s lair. Located just blocks away from Comic-Con, The Mr. Mercedes Immersive Experience couldn’t be missed from the street. The … → Read More
Amazon's Jack Ryan VR Park Takes Over Comic-Con
Share TweetRepelling from a helicopter and zip-lining in VR will have your heart pounding. What better way to tease the world-wide release of the new Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan series on Amazon Prime then to drop thousands of Comic-Con fans into the boots of Jack Ryan himself. Taking over an entire 60,000 square foot city … → Read More
Brie Larson Narrates Latest ‘Space Explorers’ VR Series
Share TweetEpisode two now available on the Oculus Store. Before Academy Award winning actress Brie Larson blasts off in Marvel’s upcoming Captain Marvel feature film, she’ll take us on a VR journey into how us Earthlings are exploring and colonizing space. Narrated by Larson, Space Explorers: Taking Flight is the second episode in a multi-part … → Read More
Tilt Brush Introduces New Brushes and Tools
Share TweetThe VR painting tool just got even better. Part of what keeps us coming back to Tilt Brush all the time is seeing what others are able to do with the 3D painting tool. While it can be as simple as choosing from a variety of brushes, colors, and effects to begin painting, we … → Read More
Oculus TV Now Available on Oculus Go
Share TweetTune in today. Oculus TV has finally arrived on Oculus Go. Originally expected to launch last month, Oculus TV is exactly what the name suggests, a TV viewing app for VR. But Oculus TV hopes to go beyond just a giant screen to enjoy television programming in VR. Instead, Oculus wants to make Oculus … → Read More
Under Armour Builds Virtual World to Celebrate Stephen Curry's 3rd NBA World Championship
Share TweetEnter Steph VR. While Stephen Curry and his Golden State Warriors teammates were triumphantly laying it down on the court during the 2018 NBA Finals, a team of digital artists were feverishly at work in anticipation of the team winning their third championship in the past four years. With the Warriors having swept the … → Read More
Adding Mixed Reality Capture Support to Unreal Games
Share TweetMixed reality is one of the best ways to capture a real-world person interacting with VR environments and objects. And i’m not talking about Microsoft’s marketing use of the word “mixed reality” to describe their product line. The best way to describe mixed reality capture is the process of recording or broadcasting a third-person … → Read More
SPACES Debuts Multi-Sensory Terminator VR Experience
Share TweetThe team-based attraction will have you infiltrating Skynet and blasting your way through Terminators. Sitting in the heart of Los Angeles’ booming entertainment industry, rests a discreet warehouse. From the outside, it looks like any other studio space littered throughout the city—but this one was different. Little did I know I was about to … → Read More
WWDC: Apple Previews Shared AR App Experiences
Share TweetA new file format (USDZ) makes way for ARKit multi-user support. Apple continues to jump firmly into the world of augmented reality (AR). Announced during WWDC, you can soon expect AR apps to have multi-user functions, letting you see and share AR experiences with friends at the same time. “AR is transformational technology.” Craig … → Read More
Oculus Venues Arrives for Oculus Go and Gear VR
Share TweetYour ticket to live social events in VR is here. You can now watch live concerts, sports, and comedy shows with friends in VR. A month after the launch of Oculus’ $200 standalone VR headset, Oculus Go, the long teased Oculus Venues app is finally available for download. Available on both Oculus Go and … → Read More
Play Boggle With Friends in VR
Share TweetThe popular Hasbro game is now available in Oculus Rooms. When the $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus was announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, it was clear that Facebook wanted to make the Oculus Go headset your next social entertainment device. In addition to finally announcing a launch date for Oculus Go, Oculus … → Read More
First Look: Oculus Venues and Oculus TV
Share TweetThese apps hope to make the Oculus Go your next entertainment device. The $200 standalone VR headset from Oculus has finally arrived. Available for sale on Oculus.com in 23 countries, online from Amazon, or in Best Buy Stores in the U.S., the Oculus Go is part of Oculus’ larger goal to getting one billion … → Read More
Oculus Go Has Arrived and It’s a Big Deal
The $200 Oculus Go is the most accessible VR headset today. Here’s five reasons why Oculus Go is worth every penny. → Read More