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Magic Leap is Giving Away More Hardware Soon, Dev Conference Coming to Florida HQ in May
Magic Leap recently announced some new programs that aim to get developers creating for the its AR headset, Magic Leap 1. The company additionally released dates for its developer conference, LEAP Developer Days, which will be held in May...
2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof
VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. Top grossing VR titles have cleared $10 million in...
New SteamVR Tracking Dev Kit Aims to Make VR Controllers Cheaper, Easier to Design
Tundra Labs is releasing a new SteamVR Tracking hardware development kit. Featuring a tiny new module which condenses the necessary control, processing, and communication components into a mere 16mm × 10mm, the hardware development kit is smaller and cheaper,...
Nreal Temporarily Halts Production of ‘Light’ AR Headset due to Coronavirus
Nreal, the creators of the Nreal Light AR glasses, today announced that shipments of its developer kit will be affected by the recent developments in Asia surrounding the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
The company, which is split between San Francisco and...
VR Rhythm Shooter ‘Pistol Whip’ Gets Free Anime-inspired Level in ‘Akuma’ Update
Pistol Whip (2019), the rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, just got a content update that brings a new level to the bullet hell-style VR title. Inspired by '80s anime films Akira (1988) and the Ghost in the Shell franchise, the 'Akuma'...
Facebook Acquires Computer Vision Startup Scape Technologies
According to regulatory filings uncovered by Tech Crunch, Facebook has acquired Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup.
Facebook has yet to publicly acknowledge the acquisition. A company spokesperson told Tech Crunch that it "acquire smaller tech companies from time to...
Mother Meets Recreation of Her Deceased Child in VR
South Korean TV broadcaster MBC recently aired a Korean language documentary that centers on a family's loss of their young daughter, seven-year-old Nayeon. Using the power of photogrammetry, motion capture, and virtual reality, the team recreated Nayeon for one...
Facebook Expects Coronavirus Will Have “additional impact” on Oculus Quest Availability
After being backordered by weeks in many regions, Oculus Quest is now "unavailable" from Oculus in 17 out of 23 regions where the unit is sold, including the United States, Canada, and much of Europe. Facebook says the Coronavirus outbreak is...
‘Ven VR Adventure’ is an Adorable Platformer Coming to SteamVR, Rift & PSVR
Ven VR Adventure is an upcoming title from Poland-based indie studio Monologic Games. Built from the ground-up for VR, the plucky little platformer seems to be channeling some of its contemporaries such as Lucky's Tale (2016), Moss (2018), and Astro Bot Rescue...
This WebXR App Helps You Visualize the Global Infection Rate of Coronavirus
Coronavirus, otherwise known as the 2019 novel coronavirus, is primarily affecting China. While it's mostly been relegated to that country due to stringent quarantines and travel restrictions mandated by the Chinese government, you've probably heard that it's also landed...
Making ‘The Remedy’ – How A Veteran Illustrator Made one of VR’s Best Short Films With...
Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill—Oculus' VR illustration and animation tool—quite like The Remedy. Created by veteran animator Daniel Martin Peixe, The Remedy is a roughly 10 minute long story which establishes a very effective comic book-like...
LYNX Founder Details Headset’s Unique Optics, Pre-orders Available Now
Startup LYNX revealed the R-1 earlier this week, a standalone MR headset with a unique optical design. Speaking at a conference on Monday, the company's founder shared more about the headset and it hopes to achieve with its novel...
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 Now Available for Direct Developer Purchase
Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2, the company's most recent smartglasses (or rather smartglass), was only available to partner companies when it launched in May 2019. Now Google is allowing its third-party hardware vendors to sell the headset direct to...
Sony to Close First-party Manchester Studio Making ‘AAA’ PSVR Games
Sony is closing its Manchester, UK-based studio, the very same that was opened in 2015 to produce 'AAA' PSVR exclusives.
While no games came from Manchester Studio throughout its five-year existence, it's clear the team was working on VR up until...
VR Headset Growth on Steam Takes Its Biggest Leap Yet, Led by Rift S
It appears that the 2019 holiday shopping season may have been the best ever for PC VR headsets. The latest data released this week from Valve shows VR on Steam making its single biggest leap yet, on a path...



















