This Siggraph project lets you feel environmental effects in VR

You can open a portal to a new environment just like in the movie Doctor Strange and feel the environmental effects on the other side.  Researchers from National Taiwan University and Tamkang University are presenting a project at Siggraph this week that shows potential for VR arcades as it recreates realistic weather effects that could […]

SIGGRAPH 2017 will showcase the latest in AR and VR

Over the last several years the long-running SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference served as an important marker of immersive computing’s march toward mainstream. Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. As […]