Virtual Reality
Is Meta Shifting its Content Policy pt2
Last week I posed the question "is Meta shifting its content policy"? Well, I think looking at Twitter (X) for the last two days we may just have had a glimpse to the answer.
Virtual Reality
Unity Shakes Up Monetisation
This week, time folded in on itself for thousands of XR developers around the world. Unity, the popular game engine announced in the middle of Apple's keynote speech that they were altering (radically) the way they charge of the use of their platform.
Is Meta Shifting it's Content Policy?
I've written many times about Meta's policy of just providing a store full of games for gamers, but is this recent advert from Meta a sign of things to come?
Virtual Reality Headsets
When Will AR/VR Glasses Become Commonplace in Public?
Augmented and virtual reality headsets have been touted as the next big thing for years now. But when are we actually going to see people wearing these devices out in public regularly?
Virtual Reality and Mental Health
Mindway VR: A Mental Wellbeing App That Hits the Sweet Spot
If you look through the library of mental health apps that have sprung up since our imposed lockdown a couple of years ago, you would have thought there were enough offerings in the market.
Virtual Reality
VR Rising: How Virtual Reality May Soon Eclipse Mobile Phones
Since the iPhone launched in 2007, mobile phones have become central to our work, entertainment, and social lives. But emerging immersive technologies like virtual reality now threaten to dethrone the phone's dominance.
Stealth Fitness Games: Gorilla Tag
Months ago I wrote an article about using Gorilla Tag as a proper, legitimate upper body workout. Well, I thought I'd revisit this premise, and look a little deeper into the psychology of how it makes players tick.
Virtual Reality Fitness
Designing Achievable VR Fitness Games Using Research-Backed Tips
Virtual reality (VR) fitness games offer an engaging way to be active. But how can developers ensure their games motivate players to actually exercise versus just having good intentions?
Staying Hydrated for VR Fitness: The Best Sports Drinks to Guzzle
Is it me, or is it hot working out in this VR headset? 🥽☀️😃 Time to rehydrate me thinks!
Virtual Reality
How Virtual Reality is Revolutionising Pain Management
Got pain? Of course you do - we all have pain in our lives, whether it's stepping on a LEGO brick or getting stabbed by a rampant syringe at the doctor's office. Pain sucks, plain and simple.
Virtual Reality
Is Venture's Gauntlet the Future of Fitness Gaming?
I've written a few times about the future of fitness, an how playing "normal" VR games is the future. Just look at the success of Gorilla Tag and how good of an upper body workout that game is without it even being a fitness game.
Generative AI
Using VR, Generative AI and GPT4 to help Dementia Patients
My father passed away from dementia a couple of years ago, he had a great life. During the pandemic lockdowns, I would have Zoom calls with him, but while he recognized my voice, he no longer recognized my face on the screen.