Watching Sports on Virtual Reality: Not Ready for Big Time
I took a step into the virtual future of sports recently. I’m glad I got to look around, but it didn’t take long before I was ready to high-tail it back to the real world. The Golden State Warriors season opener against the New Orleans Pelicans became the first ever sporting event to be live streamed in virtual reality video to the public. In a small room in the bowels of Oracle Arena, some fellow journalists and I took turns using...
Virtual Reality On Facebook’s Growth Radar
Los Angeles — Virtual reality won’t just be another technology for hard-core nerds, if Mark Zuckerberg gets his way. Facebook Inc.’s Oculus will sell movies, video games and streaming services via its virtual reality headsets, seeking to make the devices more appealing to average consumers, the company announced during a presentation in Hollywood on Thursday. Partners include 21st Century Fox Inc. and Lions Gate Entertainment, the...
Virtual Reality Not There Yet
If you believe the folks at Facebook, virtual reality is about to become the next big thing. The technology has progressed enough to start to blur the lines between what’s virtual and what’s real. Virtual reality will only get better, Facebook officials said, thanks to ever-improving processors, interest from big companies and, of course, Facebook’s own investment last year in Oculus, the developer of a much-talked-about virtual...
