It’s just a telly in front of your eyes
Episode 33 · Audio file · December 30th, 2016 · 46 mins 29 secs
What is virtual & augmented reality?
- What is virtual reality? (Explain That Stuff!)
- How augmented reality works (How Stuff Works, Tech)
- 'That VR Joint': The virtual reality place we visited on our excursion
- Virtual reality (Wikipedia)
- Augmented reality (Wikipedia)
- Beyond Pokémon Go: Augmented reality is set to transform gaming (New Scientist)
- Flight Radar 24: An app with an augmented reality function - point your phone at the sky to see which planes are flying by (iTunes)
- Star Walk: An app with an augmented reality function - point your phone at the night sky to see which stars & planets are there (iTunes)
- 'Playtest': Season 3, episode 2 of Black Mirror - explores augmented reality gaming (IMDb)
- A night landing at LAX using a 'head-up' augmented reality display in a plane cockpit (YouTube)
- The biggest challenges left in virtual reality, according to Oculus (TechCrunch)
- Flume
- The 'soma holiday' from Brave New World (GradeSaver)
- Oculus
- Facebook closes its $2bn Oculus Rift acquisition - What next? (The Guardian)
- The Cortex podcast where they go to Facebook HQ & use the Oculus (Relay FM)
- The VR goggles for Samsung phones by Oculus (Samsung)
- 7 movies you can experience in virtual reality (Observer)
- 'The entire history of you': Season 1, episode 3 of Black Mirror - where everyone has a memory implant recording everything they do (IMDb)
- 'Job Simulator': The game Lucy played & burnt the bacon
- 'Space Pirate Trainer': The shooting game we played
- 'Holopoint': The archery game we played
- We used the HTC Vive goggles (HTC)
- Africa by Toto (YouTube)
- The HTC Vive goggles are ~$1,400 at the moment (JB Hi-Fi)
- What is rendering? (Wikipedia)
- Can virtual reality cut the cord? (MUO)
- Oculus is working on a cheaper, wireless VR headset (The Verge)