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Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model

Valve has announced a new 'Site Licensing' model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés. Lets...
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PlayStation VR Teardown Reveals Display Curiosity and Lenses

A hardware launch wouldn’t be complete without an iFixit teardown, and the most recent VR device on their operating table is Sony’s PlayStation VR. With decades of experience in hardware design and manufacturing, and having created many non-VR head-mounted displays...

Hands-on: Idealens’ All-in-one VR Headset Looks Crazy, But You’ll Wear it Anyway

There's been a lot of talk lately (including from yours truly), about the impressive comfort of Sony's PlayStation VR headset, but Idealens K2, a mobile all-in-one VR headset out of China, features a promising new ergonomic approach that might...

The White House Highlights 6 Funding Opportunities for VR Education Projects

Got an idea for how virtual reality could revolutionize education? The White House suggests six ways you could get funding to make it a reality. Education is one of the most obvious use-cases for VR; its ability to immerse and...

Acclaimed Oculus Shooter ‘Dead and Buried’ to Come Bundled With Touch

Oculus has announced that the first-party VR game Dead and Buried will come bundled for free with Oculus Touch (for all purchases, not just pre-orders), bringing the Touch bundled content count to three games. Dead and Buried joins the Touch...

Lyrobotix Merges Ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like Tech for Portable Positional VR Tracking

Lyrobotix is developing a portable outside-in positional tracking system for mobile VR headsets that uses a combination of ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like tracking. While big names in the VR space hope to create a robust inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile...
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Watch: Latest Unity VR Editor Shown Off at Unite, Releasing in 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR, which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the...

FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

It's been a long road for FOVE, the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Pre-orders start at a special discount price of...

Google’s Daydream View Headset is Out Nov 10th, Software Line Up Detailed

As we wrote recently, Google's first dedicated Daydream VR headset 'View' is out on November 10th and Google have now detailed the Daydream platform's launch window software line up. Google's long awaited evolution of Cardboard, its early Android-based VR experiment,...
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Facebook Details Social VR Avatar Experiments and Lessons Learned

Facebook says they want to launch an official social VR experience "as soon as possible;" to get there the company has been experimenting with various approaches to find out which avatars work best for social VR interaction. During the opening...

Gear VR Will Soon be Able to Livestream VR Gameplay to Facebook

Oculus plans to bring livestreaming to Gear VR, letting users stream their gameplay to Facebook allowing friends to watch and interact with comments and reactions. One of the common problems with Gear VR and mobile VR in general is that,...

Starbreeze Acquires Nozon for $7.7 Million to Bring ‘Pixar Level’ Visual Quality to VR Film

Starbreeze has acquired visual effects (VFX) studio Nozon for €7.1M (~$7.7M), a Belgium-based company known for their pre-rendered PresenZ VR technology which promises to bring 'Pixar levels' of visual quality to real-time VR scenes with positional tracking. PresenZ, introduced by Nozon in 2015,...

Hands-on: ‘Lone Echo’ Multiplayer is a Totally Surprising Triumph for Competitive Zero-G Locomotion

Flying through an obstacle-filled arena in zero gravity like in the Battle Room scenes of Ender’s Game, catching and throwing a disk to score in an opposing team’s goal, all while in a Tron-looking virtual reality, is probably about...

Top Investors Discuss VR and AR Strategies and Opportunites at IMMERSE 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year's Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR's Michael Glombicki caught up with...
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Daydream View Gets Its First TV Commercials

With Google's Pixel phone out the door, the first Daydream-ready phone, the company is now ramping up to launch Daydream View, the first Daydream-ready VR headset. The device is making a cameo alongside the first cable TV ads for...
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