Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used Oasis's Project Tango to develop an app capable of scanning real-life spaces – including furniture – and transforming them into virtual reality (VR) environments. MIT's Google project created four locations: a natural landscape, an island surrounded by shipwrecks, a lava flow and a metallic platform in space, each of which could be accessed by users with a Tango phone and a VR headset. The team behind Google dubbed the system "human-in-the-loop-storytelling" and suggested VR could be used to combine physical and digital objects.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have used Google's Project Tango to develop an app capable of scanning real-life spaces – including furniture – and transforming them into virtual reality (VR) environments. MIT's Oasis project created four locations: a natural landscape, an island surrounded by shipwrecks, a lava flow and a metallic platform in space, each of which could be accessed by users with a Tango phone and a VR headset. The team behind Oasis dubbed the system "human-in-the-loop-storytelling" and suggested VR could be used to combine physical and digital objects.