Virtual Reality: How can you experience it today?

Interacting with a virtual world in real life it is no longer part of a Sci-fi movie, the revolution is already here! This technology has evolve so quickly from the archaic prototype glasses to the kick ass immerge headsets with 3D sound and the improved tracking system. This article tries to display the latest headset technology for VR and outline some environments that you might not know yet.

Headset for virtual reality

The easiest way:

• Google Cardboard: The simplest and easier to build. You just need your smartphone and your cardboard viewer. You can build it yourself with google’s specifications or buy it online. Install the app in your smartphone and ready to go.

Getting more professional:

• Oculus Rift: Developed by Oculus VR division of Facebook Inc. It has an OLED panel for each eye with a resolution of 1080x1200 pixel. The refresh rate is 90 Hz with a globally refresh and low persistence (removes the blur that you find normally on the monitors). Headphones are integrated and you have a tracking system performed by Oculus’s Constellation. As controllers you have two handle units. You can find it online.
• PlayStation VR or Project Morpheus: OLED panels with resolution of 960x1080 pixel. You can choose from 90Hz and 120Hz and low persistence. For the tracking system it uses a Playstation camera and as controllers you have the dualshock 4. Check it online.
• HTC VIVE: OLED panels with resolution of 1080x1200 pixel. The refresh rate is 90 Hz. It has a safety feature, a camera on the front of the headset, allows the user to see their surroundings without taking off their headset. With Vive controllers and trackers you’ll have all the essential hardware. Here’s more information about HTC.

Those are the main brands but since it’s an emerging industry, everyday you have new choices.

Virtual reality in groups

This technology it is not only for lonely people… If you want to try it with your friends or family, there are lots of new spaces that offer it. Actually, the amount of businesses based on virtual reality experience is increasing as people are starting to consider it a new entertainment.

If you are open to new suggestions, going for a beer in a bar could be replaced by playing a virtual game and you will probably have lots of fun.

Below you can find some options in Madrid, but there are many others around Spain:

• https://vreamers.com/
• http://civr.eu/
• https://www.zerolatencyvr.com/madrid/home
• https://vivevirtual.es/chamberi/VR/video-juegos/
• https://www.virtualrecallrivas.com/
• https://www.divr.es/

Virtual reality in business

Are virtual experiences just for free time or leisure time? Definitely not. Companies are always searching for new ways of marketing and they need new technologies to impress customers.

For example, imagine how useful it could be to use virtual reality to show your product to future clients before producing it. This would help to sell an idea and improve it in a faster way.

Here you can find some companies that are specialized on creating virtual experiences for other firms:

• http://www.virtualrealityrental.co/
• http://estudiofuture.com/es/
• https://www.vrmada.com/es
• https://kreyar.com/servicios/realidad-virtual/
• https://formavr.es/
• https://www.iris360studios.com/
• http://www.xperienciavirtual.es/es/

In conclusion, virtual reality has arrived, and is here to stay in the same way as other technologies that came before it. As you can read in this article, options to experiment in virtual reality are increasing very quickly and we encourage you to pick the one that fits you best and try it. You’ll want more!