CES 2020
HTC Vive Pro Headset Permanently Reduced to $600
HTC Vive Pro launched in April 2018 with a few key improvements over the company's original 2016 HTC Vive headset, although its launch was marred somewhat by its steep retail price of $800 for the headset alone. Now the company...
Hands-on: Experiencing Shock & Awe with Teslasuit’s Electro-stimulation Haptics
Teslasuit is a London-based company that makes an enterprise-focused haptic suit like none other I've experienced thus far. I got a chance to go hands-on at CES 2020 this week to find out just what sets it apart from...
Varjo’s ‘Workspace’ Demo is a Glimpse of VR’s Long Term Future in the Workplace
Beyond the unique selling point of Varjo's headsets—a novel display concept which offers 'retina resolution'—the company is pioneering the way in which VR headsets could be a part of the day-to-day enterprise workflow.
This week at CES 2020 I got...
Hands-on: Pico Neo 2 Could Be the Next Best Standalone After Quest
At CES this week, Pico unveiled a pair of its latest standalone VR headsets, Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye. While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same...
Hands-on: Pico ‘VR Glasses’ Prototype is the Most Impressive VR Viewer Yet
This week at CES 2020, Pico quietly revealed a prototype headset which its calling the Pico VR Glasses. This phone-tethered 3DOF 'VR viewer' was surprisingly complete, offering a decent resolution and field of view, focus adjustment, and motion controller...
‘Job Simulator’ Goes Platinum, Selling Over 1 Million Copies to Date
Owlchemy Labs has something to celebrate, as the Google-owned VR studio announced that its tongue-in-cheek parody simulator game Job Simulator (2016) has officially broken the one million unit sales mark.
Job Simulator was a launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus...
Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking...
VRLEO Brings Competition to Out-of-Home VR with Ingenious Arcade Kiosk
VRLEO is a company based in Los Angles and Shanghai that's looking to shake up the out-of-home VR scene with its arcade kiosks. At CES this week we got a chance to go hands on with the company's flagship...
Hands-on with TEGway’s VR Thermal Haptics Dev Kit, Launching in March
Korea-based TEGway, developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. We got to try the latest prototype this week...
Pimax’s Full VR Headset Lineup Compared
Pimax announced some new additions to its line of wide field of view VR headsets recently. With the constantly growing number of headset variations and mind-boggling additional prefixes to account for, you're certainly not alone if you can't keep...
JBD Shows Micro LED Display for AR/VR with Absurd 3,000,000 Nits Brightness
This week at CES 2020, China-based Jade Bird Display (JBD) revealed its latest portfolio of micro LED displays which the company is positioning as an ideal fit for AR and VR devices. Among the company's miniscule displays is a...
Qualcomm Chips Now in More Than 30 Headsets, First XR2 Devices Expected in 2H 2020
Qualcomm has been using its heft as a mobile chip maker to accelerate the development of AR and VR devices because it believes the 'immersive compute' category is the long term future of the smartphone. It's still early days,...
Pico Unveils Neo 2 Standalone Headset with Integrated Eye-tracking
Pico Interactive, the company behind a number of enterprise-focused standalone VR headsets, unveiled their newest line of Neo 2 headsets, one of which includes integrated eye-tracking from Tobii.
Neo 2 has been floating around for a few months now in...
VRgineers to Debut Upgraded “8K” XTAL Ultrawide VR Headset at CES 2020
This week at CES 2020, VRgineers, makers of the enterprise-focused XTAL headset, plan to debut the latest version of their ultrawide FOV headset which will use a 4K display for each eye, which the company calls "8K," and bring...
New Pimax Artisan Headset to Include Optional NOLO VR Tracking & Controllers
Before the holiday season, Pimax announced a new VR headset called Artisan that looks to fill the low-price gap in the company's product offerings. Although the headset is able to use Valve's SteamVR tracking standard, a model is set...




















