Tag Archives: VR

Is Home VR Doomed?

Posted on 25 June 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Few mass market tech failures have been as remarkable as at-home 3DTV. While 3D still has a life in theaters, no TV maker bothers to hawk (or, in many cases, include) the feature anymore. Why? Dependence on glasses for home … Continue reading →

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‘Ready Player One’: Good Movie, Bad VR Future-casting

Posted on 16 April 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Far be it from me to find fault with filmmaker-great Steven Spielberg or with author Ernest Cline. But as effective and entertaining as Ready Player One is, its depiction of what VR will be like 25 years hence is, conceptually, ridiculous. Continue … Continue reading →

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Toy Fair 2018: ‘Alexa, Play With Me’

Posted on 20 February 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

Like a puppy trailing a child, the toy industry often trails after the consumer electronics industry in integrating advanced technology into playthings. But at this year’s Toy Fair, Amazon Alexa voice-recognition, AR and VR, STEM/STEAM-oriented educational gear, 3D printing and … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Gadgets From CES

Posted on 17 January 2018 by Stewart Wolpin

A list of the gadgets I found at CES that are more practical than future fanciful, more useless than cool, that’d I’d actually buy; from the Huffington Post, which you can read here.

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Are There Killer Apps for AR and VR?

Posted on 26 December 2017 by Stewart Wolpin

Restless grumblings are rocking the virtual reality (VR) world. Previous rose-colored projections are undergoing hasty revisions as disappointing VR hardware sales reports trickle in. We’re shocked that folks don’t like putting stuff on their heads that completely blind them, forcing … Continue reading →

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VR’s Rocky Road to the Mainstream

Posted on 3 December 2017 by Stewart Wolpin

VR suffers multiple format, ergonomic and technical issues that could delay or even permanently impede its path to the radio-TV-web mainstream. Read more about VR’s Rocky Road to the Mainstream in this blog post.

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A 360-Degree Video Future? Codec is Key

Posted on 10 December 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

Today, encoding standard 6:9 4K video footage is well served by the newest codecs. But getting to a future of fully immersive 360-degree video recording is where encoding will go next. Read more here in this blog entry at Digital … Continue reading →

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How Will TV Makers Compete With VR?

Posted on 27 June 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

For VR to go mainstream, there may need to be a non-helmet, group-sharing counterpart—wider TVs with paradigm-snapping viewing capabilities. Are there any on the horizon? Find out why or why not here.

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If Action Cams Are Over, What’s Next?

Posted on 23 May 2016 by Stewart Wolpin

GoPro, the inventor of and leading seller of action cams, recently announced what it called a “deep loss” for its first quarter 2016. It was GoPro’s second straight quarterly drop after several years of storybook hockey stick ascent to top … Continue reading →

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