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GunnAR Live Fire Test Shows How AR Can Revolutionize Decades-old Combat Procedures
The GunnAR system uses augmented reality helmets to visually relay targeting and firing commands to gunners aboard Navy vessels, replacing decades-old methods of giving audible commands by radio which can be hard to hear over the sounds of firing...
Apple’s Job Listings Seek ‘VR File Format Engineer’, ‘VR Pipeline Engineer’, & More
Now that Apple is being open about their interest in VR the company is publicly listing new job postings for a number of roles seeking candidates with VR expertise. Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR...
Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2
With Apple's increasing interest in VR on Mac, the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS.
Because VR demands high-powered graphics and extremely low latency, specially tuning the...
HTC Vive & Lenovo Standalone Headsets to be Based on Qualcomm Reference Design, Components Detailed
Just about the only thing we know so far about the new Daydream standalone VR headsets in the works from HTC and Lenovo is that they are... in the works. Now however we're getting a little more clarity about...
VR World Brings an Open Buffet of 50+ VR Experiences to the Heart of NYC
VR World NYC is a new VR arcade that opened on June 24th in New York City right next to the Empire State Building. They have three floors with 55 different VR experiences, and they're using an all-you-eat buffet...
Oculus Founder Backs ‘Revive’—a Hack for Vive to Play Rift-exclusive Games—With $2K in Monthly Funding
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, who left the company back in March, has backed a crowdfunding campaign for Revive—a hack which allows HTC Vive owners to play games from the Oculus platform—to the tune of $2,000 per month to support...
Valve’s Knuckles Controllers Get Ergonomic Improvements, Begin Arriving at Devs’ Doorsteps
Having done the core R&D for what would become the Vive controllers, Valve is continuing to iterate on VR input. The company's new 'Knuckles' controllers are not so much 'held' as they are 'worn', offering users a natural grab...
‘Front Defense VR’ Review – Room-scale War Will Bring You to Your Knees
Having announced 'Vive Studios' at the end of 2016, HTC is steadily building up its first-party VR content offering. After a number of relatively well received titles launched under the umbrella of Vive Studios, we take the latest, Front Defense...
Report: Apple Acquires VR & AR Eye-tracking Company SMI
A report from MacRumors provides compelling evidence that Apple has quietly acquired SMI, also known as SensoMotoric Instruments, a company specializing in eye-tracking technology.
German-based SMI has specialized in eye-tracking since its founding in 1991. The company has in recent...
Using VR to Diagnose and Treat Concussions with SyncThink
The process of diagnosing a concussion is largely a subjective process of variations of attention, focus, and balance, which means that the existing self-reporting methods are unreliable and easily gamed. Using foundational research from military research, SyncThink has created...
Hands-on: ‘Fallout 4 VR’ Shows Improvements, but I’m Still Not Sold
Entering the Wasteland, sneaking up on a group of raiders and shooting them down with guns in your own two hands, tossing back a Nuka-Cola, hanging out with Dogmeat; these are some the things that get fans excited about playing Fallout...
Google to Bring 3D 180 ‘Point-and-Shoot’ Cameras to Vloggers this Winter
To fit alongside the company' Daydream mobile VR platform, Google is partnering with Lenovo, LG, and YI Technology to create a new class of 180 cameras. Called VR180, the point-and-shoot video cameras create stereoscopic 180 video that can be uploaded or...
YouTube VR Creator Lab to Mentor and Fund Creators up to $40K
On August 7th 2017, YouTube Space LA hosts the beginning of the VR Creator Lab, a 3-month program to assist content creators in producing "original and experimental" 360-degree videos. Along with regular mentoring and advanced education from leading VR...
Hands-on: IBM Watson Brings Voice Commands to ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew’
IBM Watson, the artificial intelligence platform designed to understand natural language, today launched support for Star Trek: Bridge Crew (2017) across PSVR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
Before the service launched today, lone players could control the ship's other posts—Engineering, Tactical, Helm—by clicking...
Valve Reveals More Detail on ‘Knuckles’ Motion Controllers
Valve has lifted the veil somewhat on its Knuckles controllers, first revealed as a prototype last October at the company's annual Steam Dev Days conference. In a blog post today, Valve showed off some specs of the Knuckles dev kit...




















