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VR Metaverse Company High Fidelity Raises $22 Million in New Funding

Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding. The company, which has reportedly raised $17.45 million across four prior venture investments, has raised a new round of venture capital to the...

What VR Headset Makers (not analysts) Have Actually Said About Sales Expectations

If you're at all involved in the VR space, you likely recently saw a flurry of downtrodden headlines describing "slow," and "modest," holiday VR headset sales, with some even calling VR "the biggest loser this holiday." The impetus of those headlines...

Get $100 in Free VR Games When You Buy an NVIDIA GPU and HTC Vive

Haven't decided whether to pull out the credit card and buy the VR system of your dreams yet? Well, NVIDIA is making it that much harder this holiday season with a new bundle that includes three highly rated games...

Nikon Turns Attention Toward 360 Video with Expert Panel

Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the 'Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution' event in NYC last week. There the company's recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same...

Deal: Buy an Oculus Rift and Get a $100 Amazon Gift Card

Black Friday has passed, but a few holiday VR deals remain. For a limited time, Amazon is offering a $100 gift card with every Rift purchase. It might not be the same straight up $100 discount HTC had offered on...

Now with Netflix, HBO, and NextVR, Daydream Rises to Top VR Platform for Video

Google's Daydream Android VR platform just got a lot more watchable. Already the only place you'll find the official YouTube VR app, Daydream just picked up more major content providers. While Gear VR has been the exclusive home of Netflix...

Magic Leap CEO: “we are making mini-production test runs of our first system”

Following a bout of skeptical press, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims the company is already doing production test runs of their first AR "system," which is said to be "small, sleek, cool." Following an oddly scathing headline from The Verge,...

AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics

AxonVR has announced the closure of a $5.8 million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. The company intends to use the money to build out their HaptX platform...

HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing

HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios. Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...

Hands-on: ‘Pluto’ Makes Every VR App Social

Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. Instead of taking its cues from multi-user spaces like AltspaceVR or VR Chat however, which provide users with various shared virtual environments and must be run to...

Leap Motion’s New Mobile Hand-tracking Sensor Brings 180-degree Field of View

The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly...

VR Headsets from ASUS, Dell, HP, and More Coming in 2017, Will Run on Intel Integrated...

Today at the Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that VR/AR (mixed reality) headsets from top manufacturers are due to hit the market in 2017. What's more, they'll run on integrated Intel graphics without the...

‘Werewolves Within’ Review

Based on the popular party game Mafia (also known as Werewolf), Werewolves Within represents Ubisoft's first dive into the world of social VR games. I first got my hands on the game at GDC earlier this year, and while it remains...

Zero Latency Raises $7 Million for Expansion of ‘Warehouse Scale’ VR Tech

Melbourne-based firm Zero Latency has raised $7 million in venture funding. The company specialises in out-of-home ‘warehouse scale’ local multiplayer VR experiences, and is beginning to open attractions around the world. Consumer VR headsets are optimised for use in a...

Virtuix Cancels International Pre-Orders for Omni VR Treadmill

Virtuix, the creators of the Virtuix Omni treadmill, posted an update to customers yesterday stating that they won't be fulfilling pre-orders to customers outside the United States. According to the company, trying to ship the 80kg (175 lbs) square meter box the...
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