Immersive tech
The Park Playground expands with its second UK VR venue
Set to open to the public in June, the new Birmingham venue marks The Park Playground’s 13th facility globally and is part of the...
virtual reality
Case Studies
BrightSign enables “world’s first” kinetic digital experience
Futuristic rotating cube welcomes gamers to Abu Dhabi’s latest VR venue, at Pixoul Gaming, a new state of the art virtual reality (VR) and Esports hub...
Thought Leadership
Exclusive: When will virtual reality go mainstream?
The Park Playground’s CTO, Gilles-Adrien Cenni, on the growth of VR and how visitor attractions are benefitting
Immersive tech
The Park Playground expands to UK with new VR experience
Located in Leeds, the VR experience provider will launch its first UK location on 15 December
Immersive tech
European mobile operators developing holographic calls
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone are working together on a joint project with software developer MATSUKO to make hologram phone calls a reality...
Case Studies
Oxford Brookes University and ST Engineering Antycip boost immersive education with VR CAVE
Oxford Brookes University students have been supplied with latest in VR CAVE technology, taking learning and creativity to another level
Immersive tech
Exclusive: What the metaverse & ‘assisted reality’ means for AV
Jon Arnold, VP of sales EMEA for RealWear Inc, discusses the tech helping to deliver the industrial metaverse
Immersive tech
ST Engineering Antycip helps conquer fears with immersive VR therapy solution
Immersive treatment supports people with autism and those who suffer with restricting phobias or anxieties. Solution is comprises a curved screen mounted upon a...
Technology
ST Engineering Antycip supplies simulation solution for Eurofighter
German analysis and test engineering company, IABG, chooses MAK Technologies’ VR-Link software to enhance its cutting-edge training systems
Immersive tech
Special report: UK University brings extended reality to life
The University of Portsmouth’s CCIXR centre is bringing world-leading XR facilities to the UK
Ed Tech
Bringing extended reality to life
The University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Creative and Immersive XR (CCIXR) is bringing world-leading XR facilities to England’s south coast, with the intention of...
Immersive tech
Innovating the education metaverse: MR virtual campus
Two British tech companies are leading the global race to innovate the tech education metaverse
Immersive tech
Uni of Portsmouth boosting city’s cultural economy with XR
New Enabling XR Enterprise (eXRe) project utilising £628,000 grant
Immersive tech
AR visuals create virtual competitors for new comp
Avatars created for Alter Ego, Fox’s first avatar-based, AR singing TV show
Immersive tech
Prox and Reverie, the new venture in XR and immersive entertainment, launches new ‘The Forge’ Metaverse studio
Dedicated mixed reality studio aims to deliver content that revolutionises extended reality
People
Pro AV Watch List pick Emma Bigg on embracing new tech
Octavius RE owner on Covid's impact on AV and the rise of immersive technology
Immersive tech
Lights, camera, XR!
Athomas Goldberg, co-founder of Shocap Entertainment, an entertainment studio specialising in live events, looks at the rise of mixed reality and virtual production
Immersive tech
ST Engineering Antycip delivers 10-screen simulator
The Bristol Port Company's sim with motion platform seat is Antycip's largest ever port simulation system
Immersive tech
Exclusive commentary: Mixed reality’s leap into the metaverse
Martin Taylor, director and co-founder of Prox & Reverie, on a new multi-reality experience company innovating new ways to bridge physical, digital and imagined...
Immersive tech
Igloo Vision set to open Dutch immersive tech facility
Demo centre goes live on April 13 in Rotterdam's Maritime Quarter
Immersive tech
New startup develops new virtual reality contact lenses
"Prism" eye-augmenters set to revolutionise VR and the workplace post-Covid
Immersive tech
New startup develops new virtual reality contact lenses
"Prism" eye-augmenters set to revolutionise VR and the workplace post-Covid
Collaboration
PwC UK staff permitted to split office and home working
Virtual reality headsets will be made available for remote staff, says The Guardian
Ed Tech
Special Report: How AV and VR can elevate learning experiences
AR and VR have the potential to contribute to a better distance learning experience.
Projection
Projectors and the rise of immersive and interactive installations
Despite Covid challenges, key verticals are being boosted by new trends
Immersive tech
VR and the remote working future
Charlie Neuner, strategy, XR, PwC believes virtual reality can be effective for remote working and collaboration, with Covid-19 acting as an accelerant
Immersive tech
Extended realities
Display visuals have long been influenced by warped realities – as the Victorian’s Pepper’s Ghost trick proves – but today’s mixed reality solutions are...
Immersive tech
How VR and immersive tech can shape the post-Covid workplace
Colin Yellowley, R&D director at Igloo Vision, on 2020 and the future of working
Technology
Making extended reality real: Building the Centre for Creative and Immersive XR
Pippa Bostock, business and development project manager at University of Portsmouth, on the £5.2m CCIXR
Technology
Portsmouth Uni adds Vicon motion capture to immersive XR centre
Tech to be deployed across motion capture, VR and LED virtual production stage
Business
Satore Studio hires BBC exec Zillah Watson director of content and exec producer
She will lead the studio’s development of virtual production and experiential content
Case Studies
Augmented chords at the Finnish Music Hall of Fame
Our man on the ground in Helsinki, Phil Ward witnesses the fitting launch of Genelec’s Smart IP platform
Case Studies
The University of Bath reaches new heights with VSimulators facility
The University of Bath has installed a new simulation facility to undertake pioneering research into human responses to the built environment
Business
Digital Catapult to aid UK AR/VR startups with Augmentor programme
Early-stage companies to receive expert support and exposure to investors
Business
XR: new concepts and opportunities
"The best starting point is to gain some hands-on experience with headsets and experiences"
Business
XR: new realities
As adoption of XR technologies grows across sectors, Steve Montgomery looks at how AV integrators can get involved
Technology
XR: creating new opportunities for AV
Previously we looked into the terminology of XR and asked whether it's a help or hinderance, while also highlighting the potential opportunities AR, MR...
Technology
XR: to be, or not to be?
New technologies are emerging that combine, in varying degrees, the real world with the virtual world. Ian McMurray asks to what extent the AV...
Business
Analysis: virtual reality device market to grow after 2018 dip
CCS Insight has released new coverage into the VR and AR headsets market forecasting eight million VR and AR headsets and glasses will be...
Technology
Opinion: The Experience Generation – visuals are everything
Charlotte Hone, business manager of Pro Displays at Epson UK, takes an in-depth look at the power of high-impact visual displays
Technology
FA carries out first virtual broadcast ahead of World Cup
The Football Association (FA) has deployed Virtual Replacement Technology on the LED perimeter signage at Elland Road during England's final World Cup 2018 warm-up...
Technology
Cinionic demos social VR for cinema lobbies
Family VR, for up to six players, uses dome projection rather than head-mounted displays