After years of thinking about it I finally went through: I did a Lasik operation and got rid of my glasses. I read through so many forums and sites before for bits of information here and there. I felt quite prepared because of that but I think it is really worth to write one comprehensive blog about the […]
Imagine you want to start developing for the HTC Vive. You want to do all those things like using reacting to the controllers using pointers teleporting grabbing and throwing objects manipulating things using menus and UI gaze etc. This means big effort. Here is where the Virtual Reality Toolkit comes into play. It’s a collection of […]
It has finally arrived and all of us who have tried it so far have to say: VR blown away! I owned a DK2 before so VR was nothing new and I had, after some inner struggle with the price, pre-ordered the CV1. When the Vive reviews started coming in and the shipping dates for the […]
The rapid advancement of technology lately has potentially big implications on society. The book “The second machine age” by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee is taking a look at exactly that. Here the points I took away: Many innovations happen through recombination of existing inventions. With the increasing number of inventions the possible recombinations are also […]
Do you know that feeling: you read a great book, are enthusiastic about some ideas in it, tell some people but gradually forget many points over time. I experience that quite often with all the things that happen around us and require mental capacity. It’s a pity. It feels more like short-term entertainment then instead of learning something […]