VR Hardware Sales Are Getting Stronger
SuperData, which is a division of Nielsen, claims that VR hardware sales should reach $2.1 billion USD by the end of this year (which is up 31% from 2018). The...
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Tag: AR
Holla Holla for the HoloLens 2
The new HoloLens will set you back $3500, so the chances are slim you will convince your boss to buy one, and as it is an AR device to help with work…
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Mozilla is hoping you don’t want to live in a material world
Mozilla is working on Firefox Reality, a browser with an interface specifically designed for AR and VR interaction. The source code for the browser is available already, you can follow the
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GDC 2018: Qualcomm Talks Future of VR and AR with Upcoming Dev Kit
We have recently covered news of Qualcomm's ongoing VR/AR efforts (the two terms now combine as "XR", for eXtended reality), with news of the Snapdragon 845-powered reference HMD and more...
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Tobii and Qualcomm Announce Collaboration on Mobile VR Headsets with Eye-Tracking
Tobii and Qualcomm's collaboration in the VR HMD (head-mounted display) space is a convergence of two recent stories, with Tobii's impressing showing of a prototype HMD device at CES featuring...
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Intel flaunts their Vaunt and its fricking laser beams
Intel recently showed off a prototype of their Vaunt smart glasses, which have a significant advantage over Google's failed Glass, no visible camera. Instead these glasses fire a laser into your eyeholes,…
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zSpace and Unity Announces XR Resources for Education
The Unity Educator Toolkit was created by Unity3D to integrate learning game development into the K-12 public curriculum. Now zSpace, which we’ve mentioned a few times, is joining in...
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Acer’s take on a VR headset comes at a reasonable price
Acer's new mixed reality headset, is now available from the Microsoft Store. The $300 price tag compares extremely favourably to the $3000 Hololens that Microsoft is selling. The two headsets will both…
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Move over HoloLens, enterprising new Glassholes are on the scene
Google Glass is back, but this time the users should be safely contained in manufacturing facilities and corporate buildings. The initial launch lead to what many felt was a breach of public…
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Qualcomm Partners with Bosch, OmniVision, and Ximmerse to Shore Up Mobile VR Sensors
Qualcomm has put forward steady work on creating the vibrant hardware ecosystem for mobile VR to facilitate broad adoption of wireless, dedicated head mounted displays. Though the value of Samsung’s Gear VR…
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Yungchin Realty Group Partners with iStaging
iStaging is virtual-, augmented-, and mixed-reality company that focuses on the real estate, interior design, furniture, and related industries. The news that lead to this post is that Yungching Realty…
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Move Over Nintendo Power GLove!
There’s a new sheriff in town! The jauntily named “CaptoGlove” promises to be a true game and VR controller in a handy glove. Originally developed some five years ago...
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Dubai Future Accelerator Program Backs zSpace
A few weeks ago, we posted about an education company that joined the Khronos Group’s OpenXR Working Group for VR and AR APIs. As I mentioned at the...
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CES 2017: Qualcomm and ODG Announce AR Smartglasses Powered by Snapdragon 835
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc and ODG (Osterhout Design Group) have announced that the R-8 and R-9 smartglasses will be the first devices powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC. ODG is a…
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IDF 2016: Intel Project Alloy Promises Untethered VR and AR Experiences
At the opening keynote to this summer’s Intel Developer Forum, CEO Brian Krzanich announced a new initiative to enable a completely untether VR platform called Project Alloy. Using Intel processors and sensors…
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Lenovo’s PHAB2 Family Features Project Tango-Powered PHAB2 Pro
Lenovo has unveiled the PHAB2 family at their Lenovo Tech World event today, featuring the PHAB2 Pro, a phablet-sized mobile device powered by Google's Project Tango (now simply Google Tango)...
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