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Facebook’s Oculus VR Buys Startup Surreal Vision

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[box type=”info”]The Architechnologist first introduced Surreal Vision back in September 2014 in an article called “Oculus Rift, The Carpet Always Matches The Drapes” while the company was still a project from the Imperial College London.
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Facebook’s Oculus VR unit has acquired Surreal Vision, a company best known for creating a program which virtually projected Facebook’s website onto a wall inside an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. No sale price was disclosed but the company had four employees, according to LinkedIn. It’s an interesting purchase by Oculus, which itself was acquired by… Continue reading “Facebook’s Oculus VR Buys Startup Surreal Vision”

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Virtual Reality is a Myth (for now)

Michael Kaufman

Part One of a Series True and pure virtual reality would, by necessity, be completely artificial and have only our mind to give it direction. An artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (as sights and sounds) provided by a computer and in which one’s actions partially determine what happens in the environment. Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2014. Today, we are far away from anything even close to that idea.  The closest we can come now is an immersive artificial environment using head-mounted visors like the Oculus Rift (direct link) and a movement controlling platform, like the … Continue reading Virtual Reality is a Myth (for now)