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TPCAST Announces Wireless Adapter for Oculus Rift, Arriving Q4 2017

TPCAST, the company known for creating a wireless adapter for HTC Vive, announced that they'll be delivering a device that supports the Oculus Rift by the end of the year. Update (10/19/17): TPCast has provided further clarification that their wireless solution for Rift is a...

Magic Leap Raises Another $502 Million, Now Totalling Nearly $2 Billion in Funding

Rumors from back in September of Magic Leap raising a Series D investment were confirmed today as the company revealed an additional $502 million in venture funding, led by a Singaporean investment firm Temasek, with participation from strategic and financial investors. The...

First Windows VR Headsets Launch Today Alongside Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Microsoft's Windows 10 'Fall Creators Update' is available for download today, making the operating system compatible with its line of Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets, which coincidentally are arriving on doorsteps and store shelves starting today too. Windows 10 Fall...

Oculus: ‘More than 8 VR Titles Have Made $1M+ in the Oculus store alone’

For VR to succeed in the consumer space, an ecosystem of developers making content that users want to buy is an absolute must. Oculus for its part has attempted to kickstart that ecosystem by investing hefty sums in content...
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‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’ Disney World VR Attraction Gets New Trailer, Tickets on Sale

Tickets are now available for location-based VR company The VOID’s latest experience, Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire. The collaboration between Lucasfilm, ILMxLAB, and The VOID debuts on December 16th at Disney World, Florida and opens at Disneyland, California...

PlayStation VR to Get 60+ More Games Through Early 2018, Nearly Doubling Game Catalog

It's been a whole year since the PlayStation VR launched, and Sony is nearly doubling down on its extensive catalog of games with +60 more titles confirmed to come to PSVR between now and early 2018. While the platform already claims to...

Hands-on: ‘Windlands 2’ Gets a Change in Tone with the Addition of Co-op Combat

Windlands (2016), the high-flying exploration game from Psytec Games, is getting a sequel next year that's looking to alter its predecessor's formula with the addition of co-op adventuring as well as combat. We got a hands-on with the newly revealed game...

Eye Doctors Can Now Prescribe VR Lazy-eye Treatment for Home Use

Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. Optometrists have been able to use the company's treatment in their practice since 2015; this week Vivid Vision announced a new offering for the hardware/software-based eye-treatment that...

Apple CEO on AR Headsets: ‘We don’t want to be first, we want to be the...

Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks augmented reality is going to be something big, a fairly simple claim to make thanks to the company's recent inclusion of its AR tech into every Apple device capable of updating to iOS 11. But...

Oculus Gets Down to Business With New Rift Bundle Aimed at Commercial Use

A new commercial-focused hardware bundle including Rift headset, Touch controllers, three Sensors, and three facial interfaces was revealed at Oculus Connect 4 this week. The bundle, which can be ordered in bulk, for the first time offers a commercial...

Hands-on: ‘Red Matter’ is an Adventure Puzzle Set in a Wonderfully Weird Pseudo-Soviet Dystopia

Red Matter is an upcoming story-driven VR adventure puzzle game, first revealed at Oculus Connect, that puts you in a retro-futurist world that borrows elements from the Cold War-era and teases them out to an interesting logical conclusion. Created by Madrid-based...

‘Oculus Venues’ Will Let You Watch Sports, Concerts, & More in VR With Up to 1,000...

During the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new VR experience in development called Oculus Venues, described as a way to view live sports, concerts, and other live events in VR with friends and...

Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month

The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...

Oculus Connect 4 Day 1 Roundup: Oculus Go, Rift Price Drop, New ‘Santa Cruz’ Prototype, and...

The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for...

Hands-on: Oculus Santa Cruz Prototype II & Controllers

Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company's annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz 'Prototype 2' standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Though it might not look obviously different at a distance than the original prototype...
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