by crissly | Jun 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ryuichi Sakamoto is hunched over a grand piano, wearing a black suit and his customary tortoiseshell eyeglasses. The room around him is drenched in darkness, with no other textures visible but the freckles on his face and the glossy shine of the Yamaha. And then he... 
by crissly | Oct 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you need evidence that Apple is working on a mixed-reality headset, take a spin with the HoloKit X. Created by Botao Amber Hu, a developer who has worked at companies like DJI, Google, and Twitter and is now CEO and founder of Holo Interactive, this headset relies... 
by crissly | Dec 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Virtual reality was supposed to be the next big thing back in 2016 when the original Oculus Rift and HTC Vive launched. It was the tech whose time had finally arrived. Or so we thought. As it turned out, VR was still a little too expensive and perhaps too alienating... 
by crissly | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
When actual VR took root in our minds as an all-encompassing simulacrum is a little fuzzier. As with most technological breakthroughs, the vision likely began with science fiction—specifically Stanley G. Weinbaum’s 1935 short story “Pygmalion’s Spectacles,” in which a... 
by crissly | Mar 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
All hail the headset. Or, alternatively, all ignore the headset, because it’s gonna be a dismal failure anyway.That’s pretty much the conversation around virtual reality (VR), a technology by which computer-aided stimuli create the immersive illusion of being... 