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Lenovo and Kopin Form Joint Venture to Grow Enterprise AR Headset Market

Lenovo's own investment group and wearable displays manufacturer Kopin Corporation have formed a joint venture named Lenovo New Vision. The combination of Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group's (LCIG) global resources and Kopin’s wearable technology expertise hopes to grow the enterprise Augmented Reality...

Kopin Unveils ‘Lightning’ 2k x 2k 120Hz OLED Microdisplay for Mobile VR

Display specialists Kopin have unveiled a tiny, high resolution OLED 'microdisplay' designed specifically for the use inside immersive headsets. It's dubbed 'Lightning' and it could open the door to a thinner and lighter form of VR headset. Myriad VR hardware...

HTC to Offer Monthly Subscription Service for VR Content

Starting in Spring 2017, you'll be able to pay a flat monthly fee for VR games using the Viveport digital distribution platform. HTC calls itself the first ever global app store to announce a subscription service for VR content. Announced...

‘Job Simulator’ Surpasses $3 Million in Sales, Becoming “most popular VR title to date”

Owlchemy Labs today announced that its tongue-in-cheek simulator game, Job Simulator (2016), has earned over $3 million in sales since its launch last April. According to Owlchemy Labs, this combined with the fact that Job Simulator has generated over 250...
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Trinity VR’s ‘DiamondFX’ Batting Simulator is Made for the Major Leagues

We speak to Trinity VR about their Vive Tracker powered Diamond FX project which aims to provide realistic virtual reality simulations for major league baseball teams, all powered by years of real pitching statistics. One of the more off-beat uses...

‘DREAMS OF O’ is a Hauntingly Beautiful VR Dive into a Dark and Unforgiving World

Cirque du Soleil and Felix & Paul Studios recently launched another fantastical collaborative VR video, this time delving deep into the world of surreal underwater performance art with its aerial acrobatics, dives, fire, and hauntingly beautiful amphibious characters. The 12-minute 360...
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Hands-on: Noitom’s Hi5 VR Glove Brings Compelling Finger Tracking to the Vive

VR input gloves are getting a big boost thanks to HTC's newly revealed Vive Tracker. The combination of Noitom's Hi5 VR glove and the Tracker forms a surprisingly compelling input experience that adds finger-level fidelity to Vive experiences. We've seen plenty...

Samsung Gear VR Install Base Has Passed 5 Million Headsets

Samsung confirms 5+ million Gear VR headsets are now in use worldwide, announced at their CES 2017 keynote. The Gear VR headset launched in November 2015, and was the first high-quality VR solution for smartphones. In his opening speech at CES...

Magic Leap CEO: “We have made something that is small, mobile, powerful, and we think pretty...

Magic Leap is a mystery. Parsing through their pre-factual, post-cool ad campaign leaves you with the impression that the brains at the company have created the next be-all and end-all of augmented reality devices thanks to an ingenious light field...

‘vTime’ Becomes Most Widely-Available Social VR Platform

With social VR platform vTime's recent launch on Google Daydream, the UK-based company vTime Limited can proudly say they've created the most-widely available social VR platform in the world. Used by people in 195 countries, vTime is both free and cross-compatible with...

FOVE Begins Shipping $599 Eye-Tracking Headset this Month

Eye-tracking is oft called the 'next generation technology' for VR headsets—lest we forget FOVE, the creators of the world’s first commercially available eye-tracking VR headset, the aptly named FOVE 0. The company has recently announced that they'll begin shipping...

Pico Bumps the Resolution in Newly Revealed Version of Mobile VR Headset

Pico Technology, a China-based VR hardware company, today unveiled the latest iteration of their mobile VR headset, the Pico Neo CV. Pico hasn't published any price information yet, but has stated it will launch in the the US later this year. Like...

Hands-on: HTC’s New Vive Tracker Makes VR More Immersive With Specialized Accessories

The Vive accessory market is about to get a huge boost thanks to the newly announced HTC Vive Tracker. Gaming, training, and more benefit from the enhanced immersion that comes from wielding "real" tools, weapons, and instruments. Today I was a...

Vive Tracker Enables a Bevy of Bats, Guns, Gloves, and Other Tracked Accessories

Today at CES 2017 HTC announced the Vive Tracker, a standalone tracking module that's designed to attach to anything to become tracked in the virtual world. We heard at least as far back as the reveal of the HTC Vive...
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Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists

Google have announced a new 'Artist in Residence' program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company's own Tilt Brush application. As anyone who's tried it knows, Google's Tilt Brush...
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