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MindMaze Raises $100 Million with $1B Valuation for “Neural Virtual Reality Platform”
MindMaze today announced closing a $100 million seed investment led by Hinduja Group which company says values them in excess of $1 billion.
MindMaze is creating what they call a "neural virtual reality platform," an extension of products the company has created for...
‘Paper Valley’ Review – Settling the Busy Mind by Throwing Paper Airplanes
Paper Valley is as pretty unique experience. Although it's decidedly a more zen-like game without any real pressure to succeed, there's something to it that's just engaging enough to keep you moving forward, hopefully getting you into the quiet, focused flowstate.
Paper...
Oculus Partners with BBC Earth to Create VR Video and Interactive Content
Oculus VR and BBC Earth, the British Broadcasting Corporation's own natural history producer, have announced a new partnership. The first order of business: three VR experiences based on the lives of three different animals, Black Bears, the Caracal Cat, and an...
PlayStation VR Passes 3 Million Units Sold
Sony today announced that PlayStation has sold more than three million units, showing consistent sales over the course of the headset's nearly two years on the market.
Announced on the official PlayStation blog today, the three million unit milestone is...
Meta Offered a Glimpse into the XR R&D That’s Costing It Billions
During the Connect 2021 conference last week, Meta Reality Labs' Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, offered a high-level overview of some of the R&D that's behind the company's multi-billion dollar push into XR and the metaverse.
Michael Abrash leads the team...
Oculus Touch Hits FCC Ahead of Launch
Touch, Oculus' forthcoming VR motion controller, has made the rounds at the FCC, the U.S. regulatory body that certifies devices for electromagnetic spectrum compatibility for consumer usage. The appearance suggests the pre-order date for Touch is very near.
Before any...
GDC 2016 to Include Standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference
UBM Tech, the company behind the annual Game Developers Conference and many other events across industries, is recognizing the continued explosion of consumer virtual reality by forming a standalone Virtual Reality Developers Conference to be held alongside their massive GDC...
Watch 9 Minutes of ‘Behemoth’ Gameplay, Including New Look at Combat, Enemies, Locomotion & More
Skydance Games, the studio behind The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners franchise, is getting the hype train fueled for its next big single-player VR game, Skydance's BEHEMOTH, which promises to bring a bevy of immersive melee combat and epic adventuring to all major...
Hand-tracking Pioneer Ultraleap Initiates Layoff Amid Major Restructuring
Ultraleap, the company behind the Leap Motion hand-tracking module, informed staff on Wednesday that it was proposing a layoff amid a potential restructuring of the business that could see the company split in two.
The Bristol, UK-based company acquired Leap...
First Google Glass Unboxing Video Appears as Early Adopters Begin Receiving Units
Google Glass Explorer Dev Kits are being delivered to developers – and following suit are the first unboxing videos that show the device's great production quality.
Last year at Google’s I/O conference, the web behemoth offered an exclusive look into...
AR/VR Studio Dark Slope Pivots to Immersive Learning Amid Fresh Funding Round
The Toronto-based AR/VR developer Dark Slope today announced it's closed a bridge funding round with multiple investors which brings the company's total funding to $2.75 million. This coincides with a pivot away from location-based VR entertainment towards immersive VR learning.
The...
CES 2015 Marks the Arrival of Consumer VR – Road to VR Will be There!
Another year, another Internaional CES. But as the rapid growth of the VR industry shows no signs of abating, we look at the signs that mean 2015 will be the year VR heads to people's homes.
The advent of another...
‘Hello, Again’ by Director Chris Milk is a Revolutionary Virtual Reality Concert Experience Featuring Beck
Director Chris Milk was tasked by Lincoln to reimagine the concert experience, and reimagine it he did. Milk's audacious project, Hello, Again, featuring Beck, is an incredible interactive concert experience that's best viewed through the Oculus Rift. I recently had...
Vive Focus 3 is Getting WiFi 6E Support & More Improvements for VR Arcades
HTC launched Vive Focus 3 back in late June, a high-end VR standalone with a price tag to match its ambitions as a device meant for businesses. The company recently announced updates to the software experience that will bring...
‘Through You’ – Dance as Embodied Communication in VR & Pushing the Boundaries of Editing in...
Dance is all about bodies moving through space, and it's something that shows the strength of the VR medium since there's something that's lost when it's translated onto a 2D screen. Lily Baldwin observed how audience members heard the...



















