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InstaVR Raises $5M Series B to Further Grow Its Enterprise VR Authoring Platform

InstaVR, a VR authoring, publishing, and analysis company, announced it has successfully closed a Series B financing round, which the company says will help further its mission in providing enterprise customers the tools to create their own VR apps....

China’s Oculus Go Variant Sells Out in Minutes, 50,000+ Await More Stock

The Chinese variant of the Oculus Go, sold by Xiaomi as the 'Mi VR Standalone', appears to be seeing strong launch demand, with the headset quickly selling out, in some cases within just minutes. XR intelligence firm Greenlight Insights estimates...

Magic Leap Promises “closer look” at Its AR Headset During Today’s Livestream

Magic Leap—which first announced its headset, the Magic Leap One, back in December—could finally offer a glimpse of what the device can actually do during a developer livestream hosted by the company today. Update (6/6/18, 5:40PM PT): The livestream concluded...

Latest Gear VR + Controller Combo Now $90 for Limited Time

Last month's launch of Oculus Go, the $200 standalone VR headset, has stolen much of the virtual limelight as of late, but owners of recent Samsung flagship phones can still get in on many of the new apps and...

Adobe’s Project Aero Aims to Help Creators Build AR Content

Adobe recently unveiled a new project that aims to take the company further into the realm of augmented reality. Called Project Aero, the newly announced AR authoring tool and multi-platform system that will soon deliver a way for developers...

Innoactive Secures €4.4M for Expansion of VR/AR Enterprise Software Platform

Innoactive, the enterprise-focused VR/AR software company, announced it's completed a successful funding round of €4.4 million (~$5.15 million USD). The lead investor is Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners), and is joined by Capnamic Ventures. Founded in 2015, Innoactive has...

Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS as Apple and Valve Forge Ahead

Apple has shown that it's getting serious about the VR on Mac with platform-spanning VR announcements crossing both hardware and software at last year's WWDC event. With SteamVR and the Vive now up and running on MacOS, eyes turn...

Apple Joins the Impending Avatar Wars With Memoji

At Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple announced a new avatar system, dubbed 'Memoji', the company's next step into the world of iPhone X animated emojis mapped to a user's facial movements. Move over Samsung AR Emoji, because Apple looks to...

Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0, Putting Multiuser AR at Its Core

At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today, the company confirmed that ARKit 2.0 is coming with a list of new features, including mutiuser support, and a bevy of updates that look to refine AR interactions on iOS devices. Update (06/04/18):...

NextVR Debuts New High Resolution Video Format with NBA Finals Highlights Reels

NextVR, the company specializing in live VR sports and entertainment broadcasting, has already begun its public debut of the new high-resolution video format teased back at CES earlier this year, which comes via free, on-demand game highlights of the 2018 NBA...

SUPERHOT Team Searching for a Producer for “shiny new VR project”

The team behind the SUPERHOT franchise is looking for a producer for "a shiny new VR project," according to a recent job posting on the company's website. The core team is working on updates to the studio's latest release, the standalone game SUPERHOT:...

Steam Survey: HTC Vive Neck and Neck with Oculus Rift After Repeated Gains

Valve's monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam. After a...

DigiLens is Developing a Waveguide Display for 150 Degree XR Headsets

DigiLens, a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, says it's working toward a waveguide display which could bring a 150 degree field of view to AR and VR (or XR) headsets. The company expects the display will be available...
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‘Where Thoughts Go’ is an Anonymous, Immersive Social Network for Reflecting on the Human Experience

Where Thoughts Go is a unique social network where users can share intimate thoughts and emotions in an immersive and inviting way, in the form of anonymous audio entries. The app has now launched in Early Access on the...

‘Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Two’ to Arrive on All Supported Platforms This Month

Elite Dangerous (2014), the open universe MMO space simulator from Frontier Games, is getting its next chapter soon which will include a new ship, a few new mechanics, and improvements to existent systems. Frontier today announced Beyond - Chapter Two will be...
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