Virtual Reality

Initial Attempts at Virtual Reality

Escaping the real world for a moment

Are we ready to let go?

Many of us may think that we’re ready to transition into the next phase of technology, but are we really?

The current phase of tech includes wearables that can track your vitals, voice active devices, and driver aided automobiles. However, it seems as though we…

VR: Vomit Reality

As I continue to explore the world of Virtual Reality one thing that interests me is how to make VR more palatable for those who get VR sickness. I am fortunate enough to not get VR sickness or motion sickness so am able to spend hours at a time inside VR without any repercussions (that I know of). How to…

Making Triggered Text Appear in VR: An Adventure

This is one of those problems that was an adventure to solve. I am developing a maze in virtual reality. I built the maze using the terrain feature so it is like navigating a maze made of hills or mountains rather than walls or hedges. I used…

Recreating Surrealist Paintings in VR

Virtual reality allows us to step out of our world and into another one. With this concept in…

Seasons of VR

I decided that my big project for this semester would be a VR experience, and I’ve begun building over the past couple of weeks!

VR — The New Reality?

As virtual reality becomes more prevalent and more immersive the question of what is a world changes from and abstract question to one that has very real, or maybe virtual, application. I want to cover three possible applications that I think expose the true power of virtual reality. The…

VR Is Basically Magic

We’ve explored many types of emerging technology this semester. From voice platforms like Alexa to 3D printing, milling, vinyl cutting, creative coding and on it goes. They have all been fascinating and are positioned to play a large part in our world’s development, but it wasn’t until we…