CES 2019
Hands-on: Vive Focus 6DOF Controllers ‘Chirp’ & ‘FinchShift’ Tested Back-to-Back
Vive Wave is HTC's open platform that offers interoperability between several classes of mobile VR headsets and accessories, something the company hopes will help unite a fragmented market. Although with greater choice in VR accessories comes the task of...
Hands-on: Dell Mobile Connect Brings Your Smartphone into VR With a Few Caveats
Keeping an eye on your phone when you're in a VR headset is an absolute chore: place it in on vibrate in your pocket, glance at the screen through the gap between your nose and facial interface when it...
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 impressive light-field display that's unlike anything in an AR or VR headset on the market...
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, could bring rich feedback to VR controllers at reasonable costs.
Over the years we've seen some...
Exclusive: DisplayLink Demonstrates Foveated Compression for Better Wireless VR
DisplayLink has been building out its wireless VR compression technology for the last few years, eventually finding its way into the recently released Vive Wireless Adapter. But VR headsets are inevitably moving toward higher resolutions—as we've seen this week...
DisplayLink Showing 60GHz Wireless Adapter Reference Design for Oculus Rift
Connectivity company DisplayLink is showing a reference design for a 60GHz Oculus Rift wireless adapter at CES 2019.
DisplayLink created the DisplayLink XR wireless adapter reference design that would go on to become the Vive Wireless Adapter. The unit pairs...
Hands-on: Pimax’s Ultrawide “8K” & “5K” Plus See Big Improvements on the Path to Launch
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 that would need addressing before the headsets actually hit the market. This year at CES,...
AMD Announces 7nm Gaming GPU Radeon VII, Priced at $700 & Launching February 7th
AMD today unveiled their next gaming GPU, one the company hopes will directly take on NVIDIA's RTX 2080. Dubbed the AMD Radeon VII, it's touted as the world's first 7nm gaming GPU.
The AMD Radeon VII is slated to launch...
One of the Biggest Names in Home Fitness is Making a VR Exercise Bike
Games like Beat Saber and Creed: Rise to Glory are a great way to get your heart pumping while having a blast, and after having played a number of these types of games at a near constant since they came to...
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 wave of VR headsets.
Qualcomm has been a somewhat silent enabler of most of the recent...
Audi-founded Startup to Bring VR to Passengers Looking for Relief from Boredom & Motion Sickness
Using VR in the car sounds like a great way to kill some time on long road trips, but there's a few factors that may stop you from strapping a headset to your face while in the passenger's seat—namely...
Oculus Rift + Touch Now Permanently Priced at $350
After Oculus' big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they're permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350.
We expect to see the...
Dell Found a Cool Way to Use Your Smartphone in VR, But Only on Specific Dell...
Dell launched Mobile Connect this time last year, letting some Dell & Alienware PC users view and interact with their phone’s notifications and apps on traditional monitors. Now, the company has unveiled a way to bring that same functionality...
Pimax Showing Production Headsets, Controllers, and More at CES
At CES 2019 this week, Pimax is showing off the production versions of their "8K" and "5K" Plus headsets, their upcoming Knuckles-style controllers, as well as hand-tracking and eye-tracking modules.
Pimax has begun delivering its ultrawide crowd-funded "8K" and "5K"...
HTC Confirms Vive Cosmos Will Support OpenVR/SteamVR
HTC might have given a first look at their new Vive Cosmos headset today, but they weren't ready to offer many details. The headset is said to be compatible with tether to a PC, but the company also teased...



















