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TPCast to Support Windows Mixed Reality with ‘Universal’ Wireless VR Module
Alongside its reveal of the TPCast Plus product range, the company also announced plans to bring their wireless technology to Windows 'Mixed Reality' VR devices. With the intention to transition into an OEM business model, TPCast is creating a...
CES 2018 ‘Day 2’ Roundup – Pimax ‘8K’ Impressions, Pico Neo, ‘Blade Runner’ 6DoF Game, ‘Electronauts’...
With day two of CES 2018 behind us, we take a look at some of the bigger news to come out of the show in today's news roundup: Pimax 8K impressions, Pico Neo brings Viveport mobile out of China,...
HTC: Vive Pro to Launch With Updated Wand Controller, Not Valve’s ‘Knuckles’
HTC says that the new Vive Pro controllers, due out later this year, will be an updated version of the current Vive wands, rather than Valve's anticipated 'Knuckles' controllers.
Upon unveiling the Vive Pro earlier this week, HTC demonstrated the new...
Hands-on: Tactical Haptics’ New Controllers Let You Switch Your Grip on the Fly
This week at CES 2018, Tactical Haptics debuted a new prototype of their haptic VR controller which allows the devices to attach and detach on the fly in several different poses for different types of gameplay. The controllers are being...
Viveport Goes “VR First” in Largest Update Yet Including New ‘Home’ & Content Previews
Viveport, HTC's VR content store for Vive, just received a significant overhaul aimed at improving content discovery and consumption.
The new 'home' area, which is based on spaceship platform, acts as a launchpad for the store's games and experiences. I wasn't...
StarVR Headset Rolls Out to SEGA Game Center Locations Across Japan
StarVR, a joint venture between Acer and Starbreeze, and SEGA Entertainment announced a collaboration to bring the eponymous wide field of view (FOV) StarVR headset to SEGA Game Center locations across Japan. The StarVR headset will be featured at three SEGA arcade...
Hands-on: ‘Electronauts’ Lets Anyone Create Awesome-sounding Music in VR
Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017), is getting into the music business with their upcoming music creation tool/experience Electronauts. I got a chance to go hands-on with an early version of Electronauts at this year's CES, and I left feeling hope for my budding...
‘Blade Runner: Revelations’ for Daydream to Launch with 6DoF Tracking Support
A new adventure set in the Blade Runner universe from developer Seismic Games is coming soon to the Daydream mobile VR platform. The game is optimised for WorldSense, a new six degrees of freedom (6DoF) positional tracking system developed...
Pico Neo 6DoF Standalone Headset to Bring Viveport Mobile Westward
When the China-based headset manufacturer Pico Interactive announced they were bringing their six degrees of freedom (6DoF) Pico Neo VR headset and 6DoF controllers to the West, it wasn't clear what content store they'd be drawing from when they released the headset out...
CES 2018 Day 1 Roundup – Vive Pro Hands-on, Vive Wireless Adaptor, Lenovo Mirage Solo &...
Following many announcements on ‘day zero’ of CES, we've rounded up some of the most important bits from ‘day 1’ of our CES 2018 coverage: hands-on with the Vive Pro, Google introduces new VR180 cameras, Lenovo Mirage Solo detailed,...
Hands-on: Pimax “8K” Has Come a Long Way but There’s Still Real Kinks to Iron Out
Pimax, the Chinese VR startup honing in on a consumer headset with a huge field of view, is said to soon be shipping the first Pimax "8K" headsets to Kickstarter backers. While the company executed a very successful Kickstarted...
Lenovo Unveils Mirage Solo Daydream Standalone VR Headset
Lenovo today unveiled the first standalone VR headset in Google's Daydream mobile VR ecosystem, the Mirage Solo. Revealed today at CES, the headset integrates Google's WorldSense six degrees of freedom (6DoF) positional tracking alongside the headset's 3DoF controller.
First teased back at...
Google Announces ‘VR180’ 3D Consumer Cameras Coming from Lenovo and Yi Technology
Google today unveiled at CES a pair of point-and-shoot stereoscopic 180 cameras from Lenovo and Chinese camera manufacturer YI Technology. The cameras, respectively called the Lenovo Mirage and the Yi Horizon, are the first consumer cameras in Google's growing VR180 camera platform.
Delivering high...
Hands-on: The Vive Pro is Much More Than an Improved Screen
It might still be rather bulky, but HTC's new Vive Pro brings a host of improvements that have the headset teetering on the edge of next-gen.
Today at CES 2018, HTC revealed the Vive Pro. It isn't the 'Vive 2'—and the...
Xiaomi to Bring Oculus Go to China Under Its Own Brand
Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics giant, officially announced that they've partnered with Oculus to not only manufacture Oculus Go, the company's upcoming $200 standalone VR headset, but also produce a China-only standalone VR headset called Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone. Xiaomi's headset is said...



















