This is a hands on look at a brand new VR headset from Zeiss called the VR One – I’m going to show you around the headset and the apps it comes with. I ordered this very promising headset from Zeiss as soon as I heard about it, because I was interested in a headset that […]
Oculus 360 App Preview & Make your Own 360 Pics
Right now 360 pics are the most amazing example of immersive, detailed content that can be experiences on the Samsung Gear VR, simply because the resolution of each photo is massively over that of any videos available so far. Below is a walkthrough of the Oculus 360 app with some of the best photos preloaded […]
Chromecast Guest Mode and Gear VR Mirroring
Google have just made an update to the Chromecast that allows any of your visiting friends to cast their content to your Chromecast without needing password access to your home network. This makes it much easier to use Chromecast in a social setting and avoiding the obvious awkwardness when people start asking for your network […]
Samsung Gear VR Camera Passthrough Demo
As I dove further into the different features of the Samsung Gear, it was obvious that there were some great things you could do with it outside of experiencing VR content. For example, when you’re in a game, or video or other app, you can easily switch to a passthrough mode to see your “real” […]
Action Cams Are NOT Just For Extreme Atheletes
On today’s radio show with Glenn Wheeler on 2GB we talked about the rise and rise of action cams and how they are a great device to capture not just the extreme cliff jumping, parasailing, or F1 driving antics of extreme sportspeople, but also for people like you and me. Action Cams provide a great […]
How to Watch Your Own Movies on the Gear VR with Oculus Cinema
I’ve been blown away by the amount of discussion on my YouTube channel about the Gear VR, and it’s probably headed in a direction that was a little unexpected. Where VR units have been more about gaming than anything else, in this case, the interest has definitely been in the category of movie watching. And […]
My Samsung Gear VR Experiences and Impressions
Being one of the very few people in the world (outside of Samsung and Oculus) to have had access to the Samsung Gear VR, I’ve been both excited about telling the world about my impressions of this very cool piece of gear (pun intended) as well as not wanting to overstep the mark in terms […]
Samsung Gear VR First Impressions
Lucky me, lucky me! This week I was able to get hold of the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR so I could take it along for “show and tell” at Radio 2GB during my tech talk on Saturday afternoon. After spending some time trying all the different elements of the hardware and content, it’s obvious that […]
Mobile VR (Virtual Reality) – What Are The Options?
Samsung’s Note 4 is just around the corner, and with it the Gear VR, a virtual reality headset that is unique to the Note 4. I’m going to look at two of the current mobile VR (virtual reality) options out there, and see how they compare to the upcoming Gear VR. The most inexpensive […]
What’s in the Google Glass Bag?
If you’re at all interested in smartphones, and wearables, then you would probably have heard of Google Glass. In fact you might have heard of Google Glass for all the wrong reasons lately as well. A couple of weeks ago Google opened up the beta product, called the Explorer edition to the public in the […]