Aka Facebook privacy nightmare shades. Most of my day, I have an Oculus Quest 2 on my head, so obviously I have surrendered my soul to Facebook already. Most reviews seem to cover privacy concerns, so I’m going to ignore that. Go read those if you’re interested in that —…

Sammy and I are reflecting on running Virtual Umbrella for the past six years. We have both picked two of our favourite projects from the past six years. Here are my two: Showcasing Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel at the Imperial War Museum, 2016. This one sticks with me…

Virtual Umbrella was created in 2015 as a way to help advance the virtual reality industry in the UK. We wanted to work with as many developers as possible, showcasing their work, doing marketing for them, and being all round advocates of the technology. In the last 6 years, we’ve…

Welcome to the #VirtualLibrary. Here’s our latest ‘XR Interview’ — a collection of the best & brightest in virtual reality, uncovering their stories & documenting their insights into all things immersive. Jeremy leads PwC’s XR team, helping clients understand, quantify, and implement the benefits of virtual reality and augmented reality…

A checklist of things to think on when delivering VR installations. Created by XR & Events Consultant, Verity Nalley. PDF available for download here: https://bit.ly/370iqdo

When people think of investing in technology, the first thought tends to be venture capitalists investing millions into startups. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a spare 2 or 3 million to pour into startups, so how can I invest in the immersive technology industry? In recent…

This week, Cooperative Innovations announced a new digital platform ‘Curatours’ to open the virtual doors of popular cultural institutions, museums and galleries. It’s being sold as a platform for social, cultural, virtual tours. For anyone, Anywhere. — This sounds intriguing. The Curatours app will offer an immersive experience where visitors…

Alongside the day-to-day work of looking after clients and trying out VR experiences, one of most important parts of my job is showing virtual reality to the general public. I believe that a VR experience begins before you even put a headset on, it starts the moment you enter the…

In our latest webinar our health and safety guru, Verity Nalley was back alongside Bertie Millis to host our next Headset 101 webinar. In the first design and deploy webinar Verity covered… Current Impacts on events (according to government guidance UK) Doing better for the industry (Staff training & better…