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Leap Motion Gesture Tech to Ship in Hardware from “Major” OEMs This Year

Catching up with Leap Motion at CES 2016 last week, CEO Michael Buckwald tells us about the company's latest work like the Interaction Engine and newly reprojected hands. Buckwald also says that Leap Motion tech will ship in hardware...

On Expectations: What Our Audience Thinks About Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR Prices

After a negative outcry about the $600 price of the Oculus Rift, founder Palmer Luckey admits that he "handled the messaging poorly" on setting the price expectation. The loudest voices may not be the majority however, so we set...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – January #2

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. This is a combat racer on the moon designed for VR. Trick...

Oculus ‘Rift Compatibility Check’ Tool Tells You if Your PC is “Ready For Rift”

Not sure if you're computer is going to be ready in time for March when your pre-ordered Rift ships? Oculus has just published a handy tool that assesses your system and simultaneously confronts you with the stark reality that...

Envelop VR Closes Series A Funding With Google Ventures to Deploy VR Productivity Environment

Envelop VR, a company working on a productivity focused virtual reality environment, today announced they'd closed their Series A funding at $5.5 million with additional investment from Google Ventures. While VR is great for entertainment, it's also has potential to revolutionize...
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‘Budget Cuts’ Uses Portals to Solve Room-Scale Locomotion Problem

Large tracking volumes, like the type afforded by Steam VR's Lighthouse system, are a godsend for fans of virtual reality. But what about when you reach the edge of the wall? Where do you go then? Neat Corporation, an indie game and tool...

Google’s VR Head Now Focusing Full Attention on Virtual Reality Efforts

After continually dipping its corporate toe in the waters of immersive entertainment over the last couple of years, Google is finally committing to VR (and by turns AR) by appointing former VP of Product Clay Bavor to head up...

Oculus Rift: What You Really Get for Your Money

There's been some commotion about the price of the new Oculus Rift pre-order bundle, and although nearly doubling the infamous '$350 ballpark' estimate given out by company founder Palmer Luckey (for which he apologized), we thought this quick high-level breakdown...
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‘Hover Junkers’ Pre-order Now Available on Indiegogo

Hover Junkers is a multi-player first-person shooter set aboard customizable hovercrafts, and if you've followed any of Stress Level Zero's recent video updates, you've seen just how cool it looks. Hover Junker superfans can now pre-order through the studio's Indiegogo campaign, which is set...

Epic Games to Talk Making-of ‘Bullet Train’ Oculus Touch Demo at VRDC

Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (not to mention a slew of best-selling titles), has worked closely with Oculus over the years to create VR tech demos. Their latest, Bullet Train, was the first to incorporate the Oculus...
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Leap Motion’s ‘Interaction Engine’ Aims for Effortless VR Input

Leap Motion continues to refine their hand-tracking tech for intuitive controller-free interactivity. The company's latest focus has been on an 'Interaction Engine' which usurps standard physics engines when it comes to defining interactions between user input and virtual objects. Leap...

Vive Pre-orders to Open February 29th as HTC Pivots From Smartphones to VR

Speaking with The Telegraph, HTC CEO Cher Wang confirms that pre-orders for the company's Vive VR system will open February 29th. Wang also indicates that HTC is turning its focus primarily to virtual reality. The Telegraph reports HTC CEO Cher Wang...
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Hands On: SMI Proves that Foveated Rendering is Here and it Really Works

SMI, a company working in the field of gaze detection for over 20 years, hit CES this year with an application of their latest 250hz eye tracking solution coupled with a holy grail for 2nd generation virtual reality - FOVeated...

Leaked $800 PlayStation VR Price Was an Error, Says Sony

With rather curious timing, a day after Oculus Rift pre-orders became available, Amazon Canada let slip a listing for Sony's PlayStation VR headset. As reported by Forbes, on January 7th, one day after Rift pre-orders opened, a PlayStation VR product...

Oculus Founder: “pre-orders are going much better than I ever could have possibly expected”

With the Oculus Rift's seemingly high $599 price tag coming as quite a surprise to the VR community, one might be tempted to think that it would put a major dent in pre-orders. Indications from Oculus suggest it may...
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