Toss Out Google Glass, Apple’s VR Glasses Are Coming
The launch of Google Glass lead to an interesting nickname for those that wore them in public so it will be interesting to see what moniker early adopters of Apple's VR headset…
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Tag: VR
Boneworks; A VR Masterpiece Or Catastrophe?
Boneworks looks like a half finished game, which is correct on two counts; it is indeed a game about fixing a broken VR game but as Ars Technica discovered to...
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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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Lights Out for Google Daydream
Google Daydream is not available on their newly announced Pixel 4 and 4 XL phones, and the Daydream View headset is no longer being sold. The software will continue to be…
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I want to put on my my my my my cyber-shoes
There is a very successful Kickstarter project by Cybershoes which are offering the first pair of ... well, cybershoes for walking around in VR games. The shoes strap over any...
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Facebook announces Oculus Quest All-in-One VR System
Today, at their Oculus Connect 5 developer conference, Facebook announced the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset. Oculus Quest (previously codenamed Santa Cruz) is similar to the Oculus Go...
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NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft Collaborate on VirtualLink VR Headset Standard
Today, NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft, members of the VirtualLink consortium, have announced the VirtualLink standard, which aims to unify physically connecting Virtual Reality headsets to devices. Based upon the physical USB Type-C...
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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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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR Reference Platform
Qualcomm has another mobile-related announcement ahead of MWC, introducing a new VR reference platform based on the Snapdragon 845 in collaboration with HTC. As the new Snapdragon 845 boasts much more powerful graphics from…
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Valve Supporting AMD’s GPU-Powered TrueAudio Next In Latest Steam Audio Beta
Valve has announced support for AMD's TrueAudio Next technology in its Steam Audio SDK for developers. The partnership will allow game and VR application developers to reserve a portion of...
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Tobii Eye Tracking Showed Impressive VR Headset Integration at CES
Last month in Tobii's suite at CES I was given a demonstration of a prototype VR headset that looked like any other HTC Vive - except for the ring of Tobii eye-tracking…
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CES 2018: Lenovo Announces Mirage VR Camera and Untethered Motion-Tracking Daydream Headset
UPDATE (2018-01-09 7:38 PM EST): Lenovo has announced new pricing information for its Mirage Solo headset and Mirage VR Camera. In lieu of the specific pricing originally reported, the Mirage Camera will now…
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CES 2018: HTC announces Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adapter
As it turns out, HTC's teasing of a new Vive product late last week was well warranted. Today, at their press conference before CES 2018, HTC announced two new hardware...
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CES 2018: HTC Teases new VIVE device announcement
In the run-up to CES 2018, the HTC Vive account on twitter tweeted an image teasing their press conference on Monday, January 8. #newyearsresolution #HTCVIVE pic.twitter.com/s29FcX8BPe...
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Top Gun (1986) in 3D VR Promotion via Bigscreen
Until their last showing at 2am tonight, Bigscreen, Inc. is playing Top Gun in 3D through their VR application for Windows 10. It can be used with the Oculus Rift, SteamVR,…
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A walrus on virtual rollerskates
Jamie Hyneman is pitching a project to build prototype VR roller skates; not as a game but as a way to save your shins while using a VR headset. The design places…
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