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Hands-on: Oculus Quest is Ready and Able to Handle ‘Beat Saber’s’ Highest Difficulty
Beyond being a great VR game, Beat Saber has inadvertently turned out to be an excellent benchmark of controller tracking performance, and thus a great test...
Hands-on: Oculus Rift S is a Better, Easier to Use Rift (with a Few...
Oculus has finally taken the wraps off of Rift S, its first PC VR headset release in three years. But there's a reason the...
Hands-on: HP’s Pixel-packed ‘Reverb’ Sets a New Bar for Windows VR Headsets
HP today announced Reverb (formerly codenamed Copper), its new VR headset which aims to deliver enhanced resolution and comfort. With a more thoughtful design and...
Hands-on: Vive Focus Plus Brings 6DOF Controllers, New Lenses & Better Comfort
Announced just last week, Vive Focus Plus is HTC's next iteration of their standalone VR headset that adds a pretty big missing puzzle piece,...
Hands-on: LetinAR Brings a Larger FOV & Depth of Field to AR with ‘Pinhole...
LetinAR, a Korea-based startup developing optical solutions for AR headsets and smartglasses, showed off a new implementation of their 'pin mirror' optical tech at...
Hands-on: HTC’s ‘5G Hub’ Demonstrates VR Cloud-rendering is on the Horizon
HTC announced a new product out of left field here at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this week, the 5G Hub mobile hotspot that includes...
Hands-on: HoloLens 2 is a More Than Just a Larger Field of View
Yesterday at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens 2, the company's next iteration of its enterprise-focused standalone AR headset. Microsoft is coming strong out...
Exclusive: HP’s Next-gen VR Headset Aims to Raise the Bar on Clarity & Comfort
Having launched its first VR headset in late 2017, alongside a handful of similar headsets as part of Microsoft's Windows Mixed Reality platform, HP...
Founded by CERN Engineers, CREAL3D’s Light-field Display is the Real Deal
Co-founded by former CERN engineers who contributed to the ATLAS project at the Large Hadron Collider, CREAL3D is a Switzerland-based startup that's created an...
Foldaway Haptics is Making a Thumbstick for VR Controllers That Pushes Back
Switzerland-based Foldaway Haptics is building a haptic joystick with force feedback. The impressive device, which can push back against your finger in any direction,...
Hands-on: Pimax’s Ultrawide “8K” & “5K” Plus See Big Improvements on the Path to...
Last year at CES we took a good long look at Pimax's "8K" headset and saw potential, but identified a number of key issues...
New Smartphone-tethered Qualcomm Headset Has 2x the Pixels of Vive Pro
This week at CES 2019 Qualcomm is showing off a new VR reference headset sporting impressive new displays that may well define the next...
Hands-on: Vive Focus 6DOF Controller Dev Kit
While the Vive Focus initially launched with a single 3DOF controller, HTC recently announced a dev kit add-on which brings a pair of 6DOF...
Hands-on: HaptX’s VR Glove is the Closest I’ve Come to Touching the Virtual World
HaptX, a company building a VR glove offering impressively detailed haptic feedback as well as force feedback, is steadily improving. My hands-on with their...
Hands-on: 3DHaptics Achieves Compelling Directional Haptics with Simple Hardware
MIRAISENS is Japan-based haptics company which is developing what they call 3DHaptics technology. I got a chance to try their latest demo this week...
