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Shanghai and Brisbane VR Groups Unite to Present Free Global Events Hosted in VR Chat

This weekend the Shanghai and Brisbane VR meet up groups have teamed up to bring the world a free, online virtual reality mini-expo featuring presentations about VR. All of it's hosted in the online social application VR Chat, and you're...

Leaked Zuckerberg Email Reveals Facebook’s XR Strategy, ‘Our goal is not only to win, but to...

An internal email sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company's feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Update (February 14th, 2019): Sources tell Road to VR...

Leap Motion’s New Mobile Hand-tracking Sensor Brings 180-degree Field of View

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly...

‘Batman: Arkham Shadow’ Development Started in Late 2020, Rocksteady Alums Among the Dev Team

Batman: Arkham Shadow is the next big first-party title from Meta, headed exclusively to Quest 3 later this year. In an interview with the founder of the studio behind the game, we learned more about the origin of the title,...
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‘Robinson: The Journey’ Hits PSVR Today, Here’s the Launch Trailer (and final dev diary)

Robinson: The Journey is the hotly anticipated PSVR exclusive from Crytek that puts players in the shoes of a lone survivor on an alien planet. If you're looking for FPS action, you won't find it here; Robinson: The Journey is all...

LG Develops AI-based Tech to Reduce Latency & Motion Blur in VR Displays

South Korean tech giant LG Display and a team from Sogang University in Seoul have collaborated on a new AI-based content creation technology that's designed to address the issue of latency and motion blur in VR headsets - well...

Vivo Vision is Coming to China with Hopes of Undercutting Apple Vision Pro in Price &...

Chinese smartphone creator Vivo announced its 'Vision' XR headset back in March, and now the company has officially unveiled the device's spec sheet in addition to beginning live demos in China. In short, it's lighter and cheaper than Apple...

Epic CEO Says “no plans currently” for ‘Fortnite’ on Quest, But Doesn’t Rule It Out Entirely

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed the hit battle royale shooter Fortnite has "no plans currently" to come to Quest, although he hasn't ruled it out entirely. Here's what Sweeney said in response to X user 'TheoryDecrypt': No plans currently. For...

‘Stormland’ Review – The New Bar for VR Open-world Adventure

With Stormland, Insomniac Games set out to figure out if an open-world adventure game could really work in VR. The result? Not just 'the new bar', but a rather high one at that (not to mention one of VR's first great co-op games). Stormland Details: Official Site Developer: Insomniac Games Available On: Oculus...

Apple Manufacturer Quanta Signs Deal to Mass Produce Lumus AR Display Modules

Quanta, a Fortune 500 company and one of the world's largest original design manufacturers, has signed an agreement to mass produce AR display modules from Lumus, a company specializing in AR displays based on 'waveguide' optical technology. Lumus says...

Exclusive: Hands-on With the First PrioVR Prototype and YEI’s 3-Space Sensors (video)

Earlier this week I was fortunate enough to get my hands not only on YEI Technology's existing 3-space tracking system, but I was also the first to see the true PrioVR virtual reality motion capture prototype. Since the launch of...

PSVR 2 Gets Its First Game with Controller-less Hand-Tracking

Sony introduced hand-tracking support for PSVR 2 back in December, offering up the ability for developers to update their games and let players go hands-on thanks to the headset's on-board tracking cameras. Now, beloved wizardry game Waltz of the...

Facebook & ZeniMax Settle Major Legal Dispute Over VR Intellectual Property

Facebook and ZeniMax Media have officially settled the long-running lawsuit that alleged Oculus stole intellectual property developed by the company’s current CTO John Carmack back when he was employed by ZeniMax’ child company id Software. ZeniMax took Oculus to court...

‘Phantom: Covert Ops’ Preview – A Compelling Take on VR Stealth, but Comfort Challenges Could Muddy...

The premise of Phantom: Covert Ops almost sounds ridiculous at first blush: you're a special forces dude in a tactical kayak who is slinking around the waterways of an old Russian base. But don't let the silinees of a...

Reality Labs Chief Scientist Outlines a New Compute Architecture for True AR Glasses

Speaking at the IEDM conference late last year, Meta Reality Labs' Chief Scientist Michael Abrash laid out the company's analysis of how contemporary compute architectures will need to evolve to make possible the AR glasses of our sci-fi conceptualizations. While...
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