GHVR

Observations, reflections & insight on VR, AR and mixed reality.

Tony Parisi

May 13, 2019

Immersive Web Watch, Spring 2019

The biggest tech companies are leaning in, and the playing field is shifting.

The New Reality

The tale below was originally written in the form of a foreword to Mike Pell’s first book, Envisioning Holograms, titled “A…

Tony Parisi

Jan 16, 2019

XR: the Fifth Generation

The biggest developments about to augment our reality aren’t in display technology, but networking.

The Immersive Generation

VR is inevitable. Just get out of the way and let the kids do their thing.

Entrepreneur: I have something I’d like you to check out.

Old dude: Why would anyone want to do that?

Facebook is Leading the Immersive Web

For now.

Tony Parisi

May 2, 2018

The VR Headset They Finally Built

Originally published as “The VR Headset Nobody is Building” on WordPress back in 2015. With the release of the Oculus Go announced at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, some folks with long memory pulled this out of the archives and, kindly tweeting, gave me props for…

Linda Jacobson

Feb 17, 2018

Virtual reality enhances elders’ well-being

“For older adults who cannot travel or attend family…

Mark Pesce

Feb 9, 2018

Google Earth VR and our Playful World

Serious Play for Serious Times

The Future’s So Bright…

2017 is winding up on a high note for XR, and it bodes well for next year.

Not long ago, I lamented the state of VR adoption, with sales of VR hardware sluggish and falling well below the expectations of pundits and market forecasters. While some of us saw that…

Mark Pesce

Nov 9, 2017

The Future of the Web

What are we creating — and why?

In just twenty years the Web has grown to encompass the entire world.

Very little of what we see or hear or do passes entirely outside its bounds.