The Newhouse innovation lab boasts an impressive collection of VR equipment and accessories. It has hardware for every part of the spectrum and wide array of different apps and experiences to demo on each device. As someone who has utilized this hardware before I am well aware my experience was very different from first time users. For many devices the awe of their capabilities did not necessarily phase me as it had the first time around. However I realized this gave me the opportunity to start assessing each device and...

Shiyi Liu Every time when I sat down and watched movies with my family, I said to them that I wish I could jump into the screen and feel what protagonists feel at the same moment. Immersion and empathy will become two essential elements when people are watching television, films or computers in the near future as I believe. That is the reason why virtual reality tech becomes much in demand. It is extraordinarily incredible that people can experience lives totally different from theirs by just use a VR device....

The experience I had with a few of the VR tools in the innovation lab made me excited to see where the industry will go. There seems like it has tremendous upside. What I thought was most interesting was watching peoples reactions. People reacted to what they saw as if they were actually there. Each person fully interacted with the different VR tools. What I mean by that is that they seemed so thoroughly engrossed in what they were experiencing that they fully engaged and immersed themselves into the world...