CES 2018

CES 2018

Hands-on: Lenovo Mirage Solo – Strong Fundamentals, Questionable Pricing

At CES 2018 last week, Lenovo revealed the Mirage Solo, the company's standalone Daydream headset. The new device has everything on-board, including inside-out positional tracking, which means it doesn't rely on a smartphone or external computer to drive the...

4 Most Important Stories From CES and What They Mean for VR in 2018

CES 2018 has come and gone, and with it, a pace has been set for what we can expect to see in VR in the next six months or so. If you weren't following the day-to-day news, here's a...

‘Vive Video’ Gets 2.0 Update, Partners with Vimeo to Offer Curated Video Selection

HTC Creative Labs’s free native VR video player has received an upgrade with a new browser interface. The team has also partnered with Vimeo, offering a curated selection of streamable VR video content. Explained in a post on the official...

Pimax Responds to Critical Reception of Latest “8K” Prototype at CES

Expectations are high for backers of Pimax's very successful Kickstarter campaign which raised $4.2 million in crowdfunding last year for a VR headset promising an ultra-wide field of view and high resolution. Following a critical reception of the headset's...

CES 2018 ‘Day 3’ Roundup – No ‘Knuckles’ for Vive Pro, Tactical Haptics’ New Controller, Viveport...

Welcome to our third day of CES 2018 coverage: Viveport gets VR previews, we go hands-on with Tactical Haptics' latest prototype, Vive Pro to come with 'refreshed' controllers but not 'Knuckles', and TPCast brings wireless tech to Windows Mixed Reality. Viveport...

TPCast Aims to Bring up to 8K Resolution with New 2.0 Wireless VR Solution

Following reveals of TPCast Plus and TPCast for Windows Mixed Reality, the wireless VR specialists TPCast have also announced their “next-generation” technologies, called TPCast 2.0. The company claims their improved system can 'easily adapt' to VR headsets as high...

Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Debuts With Robust Connection but Latency Too

Revealed this week at CES 2018, HTC has announced their own Vive Wireless Adapter which promises to break the tether on the Vive and Vive Pro. We went hands-on to see how it handles. One year after announcing their intent...

TPCast to Support Windows Mixed Reality with ‘Universal’ Wireless VR Module

Alongside its reveal of the TPCast Plus product range, the company also announced plans to bring their wireless technology to Windows 'Mixed Reality' VR devices. With the intention to transition into an OEM business model, TPCast is creating a...

CES 2018 ‘Day 2’ Roundup – Pimax ‘8K’ Impressions, Pico Neo, ‘Blade Runner’ 6DoF Game, ‘Electronauts’...

With day two of CES 2018 behind us, we take a look at some of the bigger news to come out of the show in today's news roundup: Pimax 8K impressions, Pico Neo brings Viveport mobile out of China,...

HTC: Vive Pro to Launch With Updated Wand Controller, Not Valve’s ‘Knuckles’

HTC says that the new Vive Pro controllers, due out later this year, will be an updated version of the current Vive wands, rather than Valve's anticipated 'Knuckles' controllers. Upon unveiling the Vive Pro earlier this week, HTC demonstrated the new...
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Hands-on: Tactical Haptics’ New Controllers Let You Switch Your Grip on the Fly

This week at CES 2018, Tactical Haptics debuted a new prototype of their haptic VR controller which allows the devices to attach and detach on the fly in several different poses for different types of gameplay. The controllers are being...
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Viveport Goes “VR First” in Largest Update Yet Including New ‘Home’ & Content Previews

Viveport, HTC's VR content store for Vive, just received a significant overhaul aimed at improving content discovery and consumption. The new 'home' area, which is based on spaceship platform, acts as a launchpad for the store's games and experiences. I wasn't...

Hands-on: ‘Electronauts’ Lets Anyone Create Awesome-sounding Music in VR

Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), is getting into the music business with their upcoming music creation tool/experience Electronauts. I got a chance to go hands-on with an early version of Electronauts at this year's CES, and I left feeling hope for my budding...

‘Blade Runner: Revelations’ for Daydream to Launch with 6DoF Tracking Support

A new adventure set in the Blade Runner universe from developer Seismic Games is coming soon to the Daydream mobile VR platform. The game is optimised for WorldSense, a new six degrees of freedom (6DoF) positional tracking system developed...

Pico Neo 6DoF Standalone Headset to Bring Viveport Mobile Westward

When the China-based headset manufacturer Pico Interactive announced they were bringing their six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Pico Neo VR headset and 6DoF controllers to the West, it wasn't clear what content store they'd be drawing from when they released the headset out...
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