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Samsung’s New Galaxy S10 Lineup Announced with Gear VR Support

Samsung today announced its latest and greatest flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G. The company has confirmed that all variants of the S10 are compatible with the latest Gear VR headset. Gear VR, a snap-in...

AT&T, Ericsson & Intel to Showcase ‘The Power of 5G’ with Batman AR/VR Experience Soon

Mobile World Congress (MWC) is gearing up next week in Barcelona to play host to the latest and greatest in mobile technology, including the presumed Microsoft HoloLens 2. Today AT&T, Ericsson, Intel and Warner Bros. announced that they'll be...

WiGig Chip Company Peraso Technologies Closes $42M Financing Round

Peraso Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company creating mmWave technology and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) chipsets, announced that it has raised an additional $42 million in its Series D financing round. Peraso produces WiGig chip solutions for Fixed Wireless Access, a method...

Schell Games’ New Title ‘Until You Fall’ Aims to Raise the Bar on VR Sword Combat

Schell Games, the studio behind VR titles like I Expect You to Die (2016), today announced its next project which promises to "blend various styles of sword fighting to create an intense, real-time combat expe­ri­ence that hasn’t been seen before...

‘vTime’ Goes XR with New Cross-platform AR Support for Apple & Android Devices

vTime, the social VR platform, today announced that users can now connect with friends through smartphone-powered augmented reality in addition to VR. In the past, users popped into vTime using a number of devices, including Cardboard, Go, Gear VR, Rift, Vive, Windows...

‘Final Assault’ Early Access Review – a Charming & Engrossing RTS on the Rise

Virtual reality has absorbed a number of traditional mouse-and-keyboard games and turned them into something that can truly only exist in the medium. And while Final Assault, an online multiplayer real-time strategy game, takes some pretty tried and true classic RTS game...

Varjo Launches VR-1 with Retina-quality Fixed-foveated Display & Eye-tracking, Priced at $6,000

Varjo today announced the launch of its VR-1 headset. Priced at $6,000, the headset aims to deliver a huge jump in effective resolution with a novel fixed-foveated display that offers unprecedented retina-resolution fidelity at the center of the field...

Oculus Teases ‘Asgard’s Wrath’ Asynchronous Multiplayer, Heroes, & More

We're steadily learning more about the upcoming Rift exclusive Asgard's Wrath, a Norse-inspired VR action adventure game being developed by Sanzaru Games and published by Oculus Studios. The company has shared the first details about how the game's "asynchronous multiplayer"...

‘Neos VR’ Update Brings “massive improvements” to User Friendliness, Social Features & More

Neos VR, the social VR platform, is celebrating a milestone with the release of its 0.8 build, which brings what the creators call "massive improvements" to usability and social features, and integration with its own cryptocurrency. Essentially Neos VR is a social...

Oculus Founder is Giving Away Free Audio Repair Kits for Out-of-warranty Rifts

Last week we learned Oculus founder and former executive Palmer Luckey was getting ready to release a repair kit for out-of-warranty Rifts that suffer from a manufacturing flaw that results in malfunctioning audio in one (or both) of the...

I Had No Idea How Fast Dragsters Really Are Until I Saw Them in VR

I'm not a drag racing fan but I'm at least a somewhat familiar with the sport: two cars line up on a short straight course and race to see who reaches the finish line first. I've seen some videos,...

Walmart Brings Tricked Out ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ VR Experience to Select Stores

Walmart is continuing its onward journey to think outside of the big-box with the help of VR, this time bringing 50-foot tractor-trailers to their megalithic parking lots across the US to let shoppers go head-first into a VR experience...
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Portal-style Puzzler ‘ChromaGun VR’ to Launch on PSVR Next Week

Initially slated for release last year, Nuremberg, Germany-based indie studio Pixel Maniacs have announced that the first-person puzzle shooter ChromaGun VR is headed to PSVR next week. The original ChromaGun targeted a variety of platforms including PC, mobile, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo...

‘Budget Cuts’ Gets 4 New Levels with Launch of Arcade Mode

Neat Corporation announced their stealth robot-killing game Budget Cuts (2018) is getting a special update today that is putting four new 'arcade' levels into the base game. Update (February 14th, 2019): Budget Cuts today receives the previously teased 'Arcade Mode', which brings...

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...
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