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Yay3d VR Viewer Turns Your Tablet into a Hand-held VR Headset (video review)

There have been several smartphone/tablet VR viewers making their way into the virtual reality market lately which take advantage of an Android phone or iPhone screen, as well as their gyroscopes and accelerometers. Since mobile phones are on the forefront of...

5th Annual SVVR VR Mixer Returns to GDC 2018

SVVR invites you to the fifth-annual VR Mixer on Wednesday, March 21st at Temple in San Francisco, just two blocks from GDC/Moscone Center. Join the vibrant VR community in at a futuristic 20,000 sq. ft venue. Enjoy two floors of...

Facebook Disguised Quest 2 Dev Kits as Clothing Irons to Avoid Prying Eyes

Even though Quest 2 was leaked well before it was officially announced, Facebook still did their level best to hide the box from prying eyes while en route to developers, camouflaging it as an ordinary household clothing iron. Now that...

Google Says Global VR Search Volume Grew 400% in 12 Months

Google, who has now has several major VR initiatives underway, notes major gains in interest in virtual reality and 360 degree video capture and sharing. The company is now prompting brands to consider what role VR will play in...

CNN to Livestream Democratic Debate in Virtual Reality with NextVR

CNN and NextVR are teaming up to bring the Democratic presidential debate to VR this October. While NextVR captured the recent CNN Ronald Reagan Debate in VR, the upcoming Democratic debate will be the first to be livestreamed in VR. On October 13th,...
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Fundraising Lessons No VR Startup Should Miss Shared by Altspace CEO Eric Romo

Eric Romo has been around the venture fundraising block over the last 10 years, not only as the founder of AltspaceVR, where he's raised some $16 million in venture capital, but also at former startup GreenVolts where he helped raise $120...

Oculus Rift News Bits: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Production Factory Photos, Johnny Chung Lee Visits,...

The Oculus Rift VR headset made a guest appearance on the Late Night Show with Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday and we've got the video for you. Oculus Inc. has posted a few photos of the production factory and Johnny...

Oculus Quest 2 Surpasses Original Quest in Monthly Active Users

In a look back at 2020, Facebook Reality Lab's head Andrew Bosworth revealed that Quest 2 quietly celebrated a few new milestones shortly after its October 13th launch. In the blogpost, Bosworth says that despite the need for social distancing...

Apple Details Latest VR Optimizations Coming to macOS Mojave (10.14)

Earlier this month at Apple's annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). Due to roll out as a public beta later this month, and launching widely this Fall as a free update, Mojave...

Play ‘Firewall Zero Hour’ for Free This Weekend, Double XP for Current Owners

Got a PSVR and a PS Plus account? Then you'll be able to play the tactical team shooter Firewall Zero Hour (2018) for free this weekend, going from June 28th to 30th. For users that already own the game, developing studio...

Exclusive: Early Oculus Rift DK2 Unboxing, “The color, contrast, and motion is leaps and bounds over...

It's DK2 month, with swaths of developers and enthusiasts eagerly awaiting a knock on the door from their local delivery man. An anonymous source has revealed an unboxing of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2. In a recent update from...

CES 2015: We Talk CastAR with Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson (Plus: ‘Toby the Cat’ Health...

Paul James sits down with Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, the masterminds behind the unique augmented reality system CastAR, to review what's happened in the 12 months since CES 2014. There's no doubt that covering a show as large as...

A Company Serving 100 Million Gamers Wants to Help Bring Your VR Game to China

As the country with the single largest population in the world (1.4 billion people), China's gaming market is quite massive, but it's also a massively different marketplace than what we see in the West. Shunwang is the leading platform...

Oculus to Support WebVR Through New VR Browser Codenamed ‘Carmel’

Oculus announced at Connect, the company's annual developer conference, that they'll be officially supporting WebVR through their new VR web browser codenamed Carmel. WebVR is an API that provides headsets access to web-based VR content. Touted as an easy way to share VR experiences...

‘Onward’ for Quest Early Access Review – Lower Friction, Lower Res, Same Great Core Gameplay

Onward has come a long way since it first launched into Early Access on Steam back in 2016. While we're still waiting for a 'full release' of the game four years later, indie studio Downpour Interactive has managed to...
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