San Francisco, October 16, 2019 — Over two hundred organizations were considered for the inaugural class of Innovation Award Winners. In the end, the judges made the difficult selection of the four winners on the first Innovation Awards. These organizations represent the top of the class in four categories: Tools, Hardware, Enterprise Application, and Entertainment/Marketing […]
While the news from the first day’s keynote at the Oculus Connect events — with the announcements, teasers, and features — makes most of the headlines, one of the attendee favorite talks at Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) developer ecosystem conference is Oculus CTO John Carmack’s second day keynote. In this keynote […]
San Francisco, September 23, 2019 — Greenlight Insights has announced the 18 finalists of the 2019 Innovation Awards to be presented at the upcoming xRS Week 2019 Conference & Expo next month. These awards identify top virtual and augmented reality (“xR”) technology companies and end-user organizations that have implemented innovations using xR technology capabilities, products […]
San Francisco, CA – September 16, 2019 – The fourth annual xRS Week, produced by Greenlight Insights, will take place October 16-18 at the beautiful Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco. Featuring presentations from leading business executives, top industry analysts, and global thought-leaders, xRS Week is set to be the premier gathering showcasing the future of […]
Oculus Connect, Facebook’s annual developer-focused conference built around their Oculus virtual reality (VR) ecosystem, is heading for its year six event. Oculus Connect 6 (OC6), is date-and-place official: the event will be held September 25th and 26th, returning to the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Earlier this year, at Facebook’s other major developer event, F8, […]
For this month’s featured video, we selected the following from Oculus Connect that took place earlier last month. Oculus Connect highlights the latest developments in VR technologies led by Oculus (owned by Facebook). During the keynote, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, gave a presentation not just on Oculus technologies but the content and overall ecosystem advances […]
Along with the announcement of the Oculus Quest virtual reality (VR) headset for spring 2019 came the announcement of about 50 titles to launch with it. A few of the upcoming game titles were shown at Oculus Connect 5 and held a dominant presence on the expo floor. We had the opportunity to test drive a few of these […]
Virtual reality (VR) and eSports are starting to meet at an intersection, which will allow tournaments and other events to portray new content in new ways. Imagine tournaments where VR-empowered competitive gamers play tournaments in more immersive environments, while their audiences watch the action on the big screens — or perhaps in VR themselves? It’s been […]
I present to you the humble GIF. Often fought over in terms of pronunciation (“giff” vs “jiff”), frequently used in grainy meme animation loops, and often disregarded as the lower-quality sibling to JPEG, PNG and other image formats. A better question might be, “How do you improve the GIF?” But to start with, what are […]