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Vive Tracker Capabilities Detailed in Developer Documentation

Ahead of the Vive Tracker's consumer launch later this year, HTC plans to send 1,000 units to developers to kickstart an ecosystem of accessories and content which can make use of the device. New developer documentation details the ins...

‘SUPERHYPERCUBE’ Teases Vive Support, But Developer Protest Could Keep it From Rift

SUPERHYPERCUBE, a spatial reasoning puzzle game for PSVR looks to be soon headed to the Vive through SteamVR. And while SteamVR normally supports the Rift, a developer protest could exclude the headset. SuperHyperCube is most succinctly described as a 'Tetris (1984)...

2016’s Record Breaking VR/AR Venture Funding Totals $1.8 Billion

With 2015 breaking previous records, industry observers entered 2016 wondering if VR/AR funding would be able to keep pace. Guest Article by Clifton Dawson Clifton is Founder & CEO of Greenlight Insights, a specialty market intelligence company focused exclusively on the...

First Look: Basemark’s ‘VRScore’ Benchmark Arrives With a Unique Solution for Accurate Testing

Basemark has officially launched its virtual reality performance benchmark, VRScore and the package comes complete with an ingenious, low-cost hardware assisted solution to help ensure results are accurate. I've written previously about how tough a problem benchmarking virtual reality hardware...

$4 Billion ZeniMax v. Oculus Verdict Could Come as Early as Today, Here’s What You Need...

This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute...

NASA & Caltech Leaders Aim to Revolutionise Big Data Visualization with VR

Virtualitics is new company started by NASA JPL and Caltech alum. offering a new platform to leverage the immersive properties of virtual reality in order to better aid human comprehension and use of 'Big Data'. You've likely heard the term...

Google Opens Daydream App Submission to All and Publishes VR App “Quality Requirements”

Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a "Quality Requirements" guide. As we reported in...

Facebook Picks Former Android VP as New Head of Oculus, Looks to ‘Take VR mainstream’

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi's current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook's subsidiary, but all of Facebook's VR projects. Barra will be replacing...

Sony Reveals PlayStation VR’s Most Downloaded Games of 2016

The Official PlayStation Blog has shared Sony’s most downloaded games of last year. This includes a dedicated list for PlayStation VR, representing almost three months of software sales since the hardware launched in October. PSVR now has more than...

EXOS Haptic VR Exoskeleton Glove Aims to Deliver Practical Touch Feedback

EXOS is a new haptic enabled VR glove which uses force feedback to deliver the sensation of physicality when inside immersive applications. Tokyo based developer Exiii are working on a new VR glove which delivers so-called "reactive force" in response...

Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

One of VR’s Best Party Games Now Supports Rift & Vive Motion Controllers

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is an undeniably fun VR party game that you can play together with a big group with only one VR headset. Now the game has added much requested support for both Vive and Rift's...

Researchers Demonstrate 100° Dynamic Focus AR Display With Membrane Mirrors

Achieving a wide field of view in an AR headset is a challenge in itself, but so too is fixing the so-called vergence-accommodation conflict which presently plagues most VR and AR headsets, making them less comfortable and less in...

HTC Opens Applications for Free Vive Tracker Dev Kit

HTC announced earlier in January that they'd be giving away 1,000 Vive Trackers to developers. Applications to get your hands on one of the Trackers are now open through February 7th. The new HTC Vive Tracker is a standalone tracking...

Google VR/AR Team Seeks New Hire to “drive multiple hardware projects simultaneously from prototype to mass...

A flurry of new job postings suggests Google is ramping up a team to create new consumer VR/AR hardware that goes beyond their Daydream View headset. Google announced the Daydream View headset in late 2016 amidst a new initiative that saw...
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