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‘Star Wars: Battlefront II’ Won’t Be Supporting PSVR Headsets After All

Criterion Games, the EA studio that developed the PlayStation VR-exclusive Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: VR Mission, says Battlefront II won't be getting the virtual reality treatment the developers previously announced, and that no VR missions will be present in the game. As...

Report: Magic Leap Could Reach $6B Valuation, First Device Shipping in 6 Months to “small group...

Magic Leap, the mysterious augmented reality startup with a multiple-billion dollar valuation, could soon be taking on more investments, bringing its total valuation close to $6 billion, Bloomberg reports. Citing sources familiar with the situation, the report contends that Temasek Holdings Pte., a Singaporean investment...

Apple is Bringing AR to “Hundreds of Millions” of iPhones and iPads Starting September 19th

Apple's iOS 11 is coming to compatible devices starting September 19th, which means that if you own a recent Apple iPhone or iPad, you may have an augmented reality-capable device in your hands before the new iPhone line even...

Apple Reveals Short List of AR Apps Coming to App Store This Month

With ARKit in the wild for a few months now, Apple's special iPhone 8 event was the place to announce the coming wave of augmented reality apps. Senior VP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller took the stage to introduce...

Watch Apple’s Live iPhone 8 Event @10am PT, Suspected Augmented Reality Announcements

Today at 10am PDT, Apple is releasing news about upcoming products like the new iPhone 8 and Watch, taking place at the company's newly debuted Steve Jobs Theater. Among the announcements, many of which have supposedly already been leaked, is sure...

Google ‘Tilt Brush’ Now Lets You Easily Import Objects From ‘Blocks’ 3D Modeling App

Google has pushed an update to its VR paint program Tilt Brush (2016) that finally lets you intuitively drag your 3D creations in from Blocks (2017), the company's latest 3D modeling app for VR. Before the new Tilt Brush update, importing a model...

Felix & Paul’s ‘The People’s House’ 360 Video Wins an Emmy

The second night of the 69th Emmy Awards saw a number of nominations for virtual reality content, including rendered experiences and 360 video spanning a diverse swath of genres. Taking home an Emmy this year was The People's House: Inside the White House...

Acer Upgrades VR Headset’s Headstrap for Consumer Launch

Acer's Windows VR headset initially became available earlier this summer as a development kit. In October the company will launch the consumer version of the headset now with an upgraded head strap. The Acer "Mixed Reality" VR headset is due...

Nintendo Still Not Ready For VR, Not Enough “Truly Fun” Experiences

Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America's President and COO, took the stage Thursday at Variety's Entertainment and Tech Summit to discuss the company's immediate future, including the likely (and entirely predictable) shortage of Nintendo Switch this holiday season. According to Fils-Aime,...

Meta 2 Adds Initial SteamVR Support, Soon to Work With Vive Controllers

The Meta 2 AR headset SDK now supports SteamVR, making it easy for developers who have built SteamVR applications to add support for the headset. With support for the Vive, Rift, and soon the Windows VR headsets, it seems that...
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Pimax Teases ‘Next Generation’ Accessories for Its 8K VR Headset

Pimax, the Chinese VR headset manufacturer, released a teaser video showing a number of high-tech accessories that clip onto the company's upcoming 8K VR headset—a headset that boasts a staggering 200 degree field of view (FOV) at 3840x2160 per eye resolution via...
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Mimesys Leverages ARKit as a Mobile Viewer into Collaborative Virtual Environments

VR remote collaboration company Mimesys has dreamt up an experiment which envisions mobile AR as a portal into remote virtual environments, allowing for quick spatial collaboration on-the-go, without putting on a VR headset. VR collaboration and visualization can be massively powerful,...
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Google & Song Exploder Create ‘Inside Music’ VR App to Help You Better Appreciate Songs

Song Exploder, the popular music podcast that lets musicians explain every part of their songs, has gotten some help from Google to create a new app that throws you in the middle of song so you can experience it...

ManoMotion Brings Hand Gesture Input to Apple’s ARKit

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they're integrated their company's smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit, making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone's onboard processors and...

Rockstar to Bring ‘L.A. Noire’ to HTC Vive With Cases “rebuilt specifically for virtual reality”

L.A. Noire (2011), the hit neo-noire adventure game for PC and console, is coming to VR in a series of cases taken from the original game that Rockstar says are being "rebuilt specifically for virtual reality." Called L.A. Noire: The VR...
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