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Hands-on: Oculus’ Wireless ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype Makes Standalone Room-scale Tracking a Reality

On stage at Oculus Connect 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased that Oculus is developing a new, standalone, wireless VR headset with inside-out positional tracking. Following the keynote, I was whisked away behind closed doors to see the so-called...

Hands-on: Meta 2 Could Do for Augmented Reality What Rift DK1 Did for Virtual Reality

The Meta 2 development kit, made available for pre-order by the company today, isn't perfect. But then again neither was the Rift DK1, and it didn't need to be. It only needed to be good enough that just a...

HTC Invests in 33 More AR/VR Startups Through Vive X Accelerator

HTC's Vive X accelerator is a $100 million fund for AR/VR companies that the company announced last year. Today HTC is revealing the second batch of companies that will receive investments and mentorship from the program. 33 seems to be...

ARAIG Gaming Impact Vest Completes Another Piece of the VR Puzzle, Needs Your Help on Kickstarter

ARAIG (which stands for As Real As It Gets) is a gaming impact vest designed to immerse you in games with haptic feedback. The unit, which recently took to Kickstarter for funding, could be an excellent addition to any...
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‘Planet Whack’ is a Multi-user VR Demo Showcasing PhaseSpace Motion Tracking

A short video (heading this article) of two people wildly hitting a giant ball with foam swords (captured by Super Ventures) is an amusing showcase of PhaseSpace’s motion tracking technology. Planet Whack is a whac-a-mole-inspired game, where two players participate in...

Reverse Engineering the Oculus Rift DK2 Provides Brilliant Insight into Inner Workings

Spurred by the current lack of a Linux SDK for the Oculus Rift DK2, a group of developers sought to dissect the Rift's optical tracking system by reverse engineering the DK2. The information that was tediously corralled together is...

Visionary VR to Give First Glimpse of Content Creation App at VRLA Next Week

Visionary VR, a stealth virtual reality startup which announced a $6 million fundraise back in March, will give the first glimpse of their VR storytelling application at VRLA. VRLA Summer Expo 2016 is fast approaching. Among a packed list of...
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PlayStation VR Unboxing

PlayStation VR is nearly here and we've got an unboxing to tide you over until its launch in just two weeks. Sony's PSVR is the first console-based VR headset to hit the market and also the most affordable of the...

CES 2015: Leap Motion Co-Founders Talk ‘Dragonfly’ Made-for-VR Motion Input Camera

At CES 2015 last week, we met up with Leap Motion co-founders Michael Buckwald and David Holz to try their latest prototype motion input camera, codenamed 'Dragonfly', and chat with the duo to learn more about their plans for making...
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Video Hands-on: ‘The London Heist – Getaway’ on Sony Morpheus

At E3 2015 Sony is showing a brand new addition to their The London Heist VR game, this time putting the player in an action-packed car chase. From Sony's London Studio, the demo represents another exemplary entry into the company's VR...

Oculus Chief Scientist: How and When Augmented Reality Will Transform Our Lives

Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, as-ever delivered an inspiring presentation at today’s F8 conference, this time on the topic of Augmented Reality. AR has received top billing at this year’s event, with Facebook introducing a camera-based platform to...

More Evidence Points to ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ PSVR Content in the Works

Although not yet officially announced, evidence is mounting for PlayStation VR content coming to Star Wars Battlefront II. Last month we reported on tweets by Alex Mole, CTO of EA's Criterion, the studio which developed the well regarded Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One:...

GDC 2014: Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 (DK2) Pre-orders Start Today for $350, Ships in July

Today at GDC 2014 Oculus VR has announced availability of their second Oculus Rift developer kit, widely referred to as the DK2. The unit, which includes positional tracking, low-persistence, and other major improvements over the DK1, is available for...

HTC Vive Mobile Phone Spotted in Promotional Video (Update: Perhaps Not)

An HTC Vive phone has been spotted in a promotional video ahead of a scheduled press conference for the company on January 12th. But what should we expect from a Vive branded phone? In another in a series of revealing...

HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR

It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...
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