Over the years, the ticket packages for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival have become a fun unboxing surprise, with snapshots filling Instagram long before fans flood their social media streams with selfies from the festival itself. Artwork, miniature pop-up scenes of the Empire Polo Club in Indio and calendars have been inside the boxes, along with Coachella’s coveted entry wristbands, in recent years.
Category: Virtual Reality
Sony’s PlayStation VR System Sells 915,000 Units Worldwide
Sales have exceeded expectations, making the Japanese company’s system the most popular virtual reality offering and leading to shortages. Sony’s PlayStation VR system has sold 915,000 units since its October launch, making it the most popular such system in the world and exceeding the company’s expectations.
Landmark Cinemas CEO: “I Love Tentpoles But I Need More Than That”
Speaking Monday at the HPA Tech Retreat, the exec also said he’s not looking to launch virtual reality at his theaters. Neil Campbell, president/CEO of Landmark Cinemas, asserted that he needs a steady stream of all types of movies – not just tentpoles – to keep his cinemas healthy.
Google Brings Tilt Brush To The Oculus Rift
The company may have its own VR platforms, but that isn’t stopping it from developing great content for other systems. If you have an Oculus Rift and have been feeling left out because you can’t use one of the most-awarded virtual reality experiences, Google’s ready to let you in on the fun.
Why We’re Excited About These 3 Top Stocks
No two investors are alike. While some are excited by explosive growth, others look for predictable businesses with competitive advantages.
Flex: Cramer’s Top Takeaways
Shares of Flex have been on a tear, rising almost 30% in 2016 and already up another 13% in 2017. “What a winner,” Cramer said of the stock, which trades at just 12 times next year’s earnings.
Apple, Inc. CEO Tim Cook Talks Up Augmented Reality’s Potential
Despite the company’s penchant for secrecy, it’s become increasingly clear that Apple has something in the pipeline given that CEO Tim Cook keeps talking about AR’s transformative potential. This is that whole “ship leaking from the top” bit that Steve Jobs always referred to.
3 ETFs to Consider if You Like Nvidia’s Fourth-Quarter Earnings
Artificial intelligence, gaming and autonomous driving are likely to continue support Nvidia’s strong fundamentals. These three ETFs may benefit if investors like what they hear.
Facebook Loses Virtual-Reality Headset Coding Lawsuit Against ZeniMax
Facebook Inc. and its co-defendants were ordered to pay $500 million to ZeniMax Media Inc. after a jury found the social network’s Oculus VR unit unfairly used ZeniMax code to build a virtual-reality headset. The verdict Wednesday was another setback for Oculus, which Facebook bought in 2014 for more than $2 billion.
Facebook’s Big Hire Shows Zuckerberg’s Distinctive Vision for Virtual Reality
When Facebook bought Oculus VR for over $2 billion in 2014, the company was something of a trendsetter among tech giants when it came to virtual reality, which at the time was seen as the province of geeks, early adopters and futurists . Today, the field is a lot more crowded, enough so that Facebook/Oculus has often been pushed out of the media spotlight.
Virtual reality takes students on field trips to DC, volcanos and China
Students picked up white plastic visors and slid them onto their faces. Suddenly, they were 2,600 miles away, standing in Washington, D.C., next to the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, with the Lincoln and Jefferson memorials visible as they turned their heads.
Prying apps and mail scams: CBC Marketplace’s consumer cheat sheet
Apps are ubiquitous, so CBC Marketplace had one built to test just how much consumers know about privacy and how to protect personal information. If you’ve received a change of address notification that you didn’t authorize, contact Canada Post immediately.
Intel handed out barf bags for its event at CES
Attendees at tech trade shows are accustomed to getting plied with all sorts of shwag, but those who attended Intel’s event on Wednesday got something different: barf bags. to attendees at its press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada – a precaution in case audience members got sick during the virtual reality experience.
8i Is Trying To Bring Virtual Reality Out Of The Gaming World
Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends…before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they’ll alter the human experience forever.
Better Buy: Ambarella Inc vs. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Investors looking for a semiconductor play might look to Ambarella’s beat-down stock as a turnaround play, or they might be tempted into hitching a ride with AMD in hopes of more gains. But which is really the better buy? AMD’s stock price gains have come as the company made solid improvements to its revenue, expanded its position in the graphics processing unit market, and looks to opportunities in new markets like virtual reality .