Numerous people are working on Virtual Reality projects. Here is an example of where one team is. They might have gotten further ahead if they had used Second Life. The world would definitely have looked better.

The last podcast from Metareality was in April. In this cast Kim/Gianna is saying they plan to be back doing more regular casts, back to the weekly format. You can listen to the cast here: Weak Sauce. This is an uncensored audio. No bleeping, so there is some profane language… actually a lot. I remind […]

Windows 8.1 came out recently. For Windows 8 users the upgrade is free. Some of you will see it pop up as a standard Windows update without your doing anything. Be warned! There are a certain number of computers that cannot handle the upgrade to Win8.1. About 10/18 Microsoft started receiving reports of the Windows […]

I’m not big into virus warnings unless something radically changes. Well, it has. So, read up and rethink your backup strategies. New Ransom Ware There is a new style of ransom ware that has come to America. Europe has apparently been dealing with it for weeks. It is called Ransom Ware 2.0 or CryptoLocker. To […]

Check out the castAR VR system. This is now a funded, but still open, Kickstarter project. This is the one-ups-manship that the free market creates. This combines Oculus, Google Glasses, and shutter glasses. I’m not sure about the claim of no motion sickness. I think that is likely true in the AR mode. When one […]

Inara and Hamlet have just written about Cloud Party and Oculus. I am happy to see that Cloud Party is thinking Oculus Rift. But… really!?! In a web browser? If you saw my previous post you know that browser-makers are dropping plugins. Right now they can’t drop all of them because the replacement, HTML5, is […]

The plugins we use in our browsers are a holdover from an earlier time. They provide handy features not built into the browsers. But, plugins also provide a varied collection of problems. The problems are enough of a pain that Firefox, Google, and other browser publishers are going to remove support for them. Firefox has […]

Jo Yardley has another article up about the OculusRift. See: Solving virtual User Interface problems. She’s on about User Interface problems. The article includes a video that shows some of the aspects of the User Interface problems. But there is a funny video out that shows and even more serious problem. Check this out: It is […]