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VR Developers Are Increasingly Prioritizing VR Arcades for Content Distribution
The virtual reality industry is poised for a transformative five years. While consumer VR equipment is still cost prohibitive for many, location-based 'VR arcade' businesses offer a chance for consumers to experience high-end VR equipment without a big up-front...
Google’s Tango Engineering Director, Johnny Lee, on AR Capabilities Enabled by Depth Sensors
Augmented Reality has played a huge role at the developer conferences for Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Google, which is a great sign that the industry is moving towards spatially-aware computing. Microsoft is the only company to start with head-mounted...
Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS
Apple's broad embrace of VR this week shows that the company has had virtual reality support on its roadmap for quite some time. During a session at WWDC, Apple and Valve confirmed they've been working together for nearly a...
4 Dev Demos Showing Off Apple’s New ARKit Tracking
Showcased at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week, ARKit is a new core technology for iOS 11, due to launch this Fall, soon to enable augmented reality features on hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads. As the iOS...
HTC Sweetens Viveport Subscription Deal with 75 More VR Games
HTC launched its interesting Viveport Subscription service back in April; for $7/month, the program lets users choose five VR games from a pool of available apps, and grants them unlimited access. The company is sweetening the deal with 75...
Updated: Vive Deluxe Audio Strap Sells Out at Launch, Vive Pre Requires Conversion Kit
The hotly anticipated Vive Deluxe Audio Strap launched just yesterday and the initial stock has already been nabbed, apparently putting the unit out of stock in both the US and EU regions. HTC has also confirmed that the upgraded...
Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR
Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Detailed on the Oculus Blog, the new partnership with the...
Bringing Fun & Whimsey Into Your Home with ‘Woorld’, Winner of Google Play’s ‘Best AR Experience’
Funomena's Woorld won the 'Best AR Experience' category at the recent 2017 Google Play awards. In the game you scan your room with a Google Tango-enabled phone, and then you're encouraged to decorate your space with extremely cute art...
Apple Announces First VR-Ready Computers
Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but...
Apple Embraces VR: Every Virtual Reality Announcement From the WWDC 2017 Keynote
At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event's opening keynote.
Though well loved, Apple's computer lineup got somewhat left in the dust...
Intel & Major League Baseball Partnership Will Bring Free Weekly Games Streamed in VR
Live VR broadcasts from the world's biggest sporting leagues are steadily becoming easier to find. A major new three year partnership between Intel and MLB, America's leading baseball league, will bring weekly live baseball games streamed in VR for free to...
3 New PSVR Games to Watch: ‘Tiny Trax’, ‘Theseus’ and ‘The Persistence’
After a lull in PSVR quality titles, PlayStation VR owners can now look forward to a handful of genuinely promising titles appearing for the platform in over the next few months. We pick 3 of the most promising PSVR...
‘Testimony’ Uses VR to Create an Opportunity to Heal Sexual Assault Trauma and Raise Awareness
Testimony is one of the most profound and powerful applications of virtual reality that I've seen so far. It's an experimental documentary that captures the stories of sexual assault from five women broken up into five segments. You're completely...
‘The Mage’s Tale’ Available for Pre-order for Oculus Touch, Launching June 20th
On June 20th, action RPG The Mage’s Tale will launch on the Oculus Store. The dungeon crawler from developer inXile Entertainment is optimised for Rift and Touch, set between the events of The Bard’s Tale III: Thief of Fate...
‘FORM’ Review
The word 'surreal' invariably falls short when it comes to trying to lift the shroud surrounding the VR first-person puzzler FORM. Transporting you to a strange inner universe via an enigmatic black obelisk, you experience what it must feel like to...




















