Mixed Reality
Varjo Brings Real-time Green-screen Capability to XR-1 for More Seamless Mixed Reality
Varjo, makers of high-end enterprise focused VR headsets, is adding real-time green-screen (aka chroma key) and marker tracking features to its XR-1 headset to make mixed reality applications more seamless.
Varjo's XR-1 headset is a high-end enterprise development kit headset which...
LIV Secures $2.6M in Funding to Further Expand Mixed Reality Streaming Platform
LIV, the Prague-based team behind the eponymous mixed reality game-streaming platform, has secured $2.6 million in a Series A financing round, something the company says will be used to expand its development team, accelerate its streaming technology, and to...
Facebook Teases “Mixed Reality” Capabilities of Santa Cruz Headset
Facebook's VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth showed a quick glimpse of a "mixed reality" game of soccer using Oculus Santa Cruz, the company's 6 DOF standalone VR headset prototype.
This is the first hint that Santa Cruz could have...
ANTVR to Launch $500 ‘Mix’ AR Headset on Kickstarter in May
AntVR, the Beijing-based company known for their 2014 VR headset Kickstarter, is launching a new crowdfunding campaign soon focusing on a hybrid AR headset called simply Mix. The makers are promising a bevy of bells and whistles, including the...
Sony Experimenting with Advanced Livestreaming Features for PSVR, Mixed Reality Views
Speaking during a session at GDC 2018 last month, Richard Forster, Senior Team Lead at Sony's Research & Development West group, chronicled a range of explorations in advanced livestreaming and sharing features for PSVR.
Today PSVR users can access the usual...
Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product ‘Magic Leap One’, Shipping Starts in 2018
After the long wait, Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, finally unveiled its first AR headset. Releasing first as a 'Creator Edition', the so-called 'Magic Leap One' AR headset is said to start shipping in 2018.
While the company has...
Microsoft Opens Mixed Reality Capture Studios & Academy in San Francisco Reactor Space
Microsoft today announced the opening of its Mixed Reality Capture Studios and a 'Mixed Reality Academy' in the company's San Francisco Reactor dev space.
Microsoft has a number of Reactors, or physical spaces that are open and free of charge to...
Developer Offers First Look at Acer’s “Windows Mixed Reality” VR Headset Dev Kit
Software developer Shachar “Vice” Weis has described his first impressions of Acer's Windows Mixed Reality VR headset dev kit on his blog. His company, Packet39, makers of VR game Orbital Injection, recently received the Developer Edition headset made by...
‘Legion’ HoloLens Experience Coming to San Diego Comic-Con
FX TV series Legion (2017) is getting an immersive, mixed reality experience powered by Microsoft's HoloLens, and it's coming to this year's San Diego Comic-Con on July 20-23.
Sessions: The Legion Mixed Reality Experience will take fans into the headspace of show's protagonist David...
Oculus Brings Mixed Reality Capture Support to Rift
Trying to capture what someone is experiencing when they're head-first in a VR game has been an interesting problem to crack. By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you...
New Oculus Update Embraces 360 Room-scale, Adds Mixed Reality Capture
Version 1.16 of Oculus Rift software is beginning to roll out to all Rift users, adding support for Mixed Reality capture, a redesigned interface for future updates and issue reporting, a new Home environment and multilanguage support. The Store...
MixCast VR Studio Helps Devs Add Mixed Reality Capture Features to VR Games
Blueprint Reality, developers of VR puzzle game Awaken, have launched the MixCast VR Studio on Steam. Developers can quickly add the free SDK to their Unity-based VR games, which allows users to easily set up, broadcast, or record mixed...
The VOID Opens Mixed-Reality Location in Dubai
THE VOID, the untethered mixed-reality park, is opening a new location in Dubai, UAE. The new Dubai-based park is the company's second public location, and will be hosting their Ghostbusters: Dimension experience—the same currently running at their first location...
Video: Intel Project Alloy Shows Multiplayer Gaming in Mixed Reality Demo
Project Alloy, Intel's VR headset with mixed reality (MR) capabilities revealed at Intel Developer Forum last August, got a little extra stage time this CES, as Intel showed off some more of the headset's gaming chops.
The video shows two users playing...
Magic Leap CEO: “We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty...
Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious light field...



















