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Developers Can Now Request Oculus Go Dev Kits, Could Have Headsets As Soon as Next Month

The new Oculus Go standalone headset was revealed yesterday at Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference. According to Oculus CTO and legendary programmer John Carmack, developers could have their hands on the $200 standalone mobile headset as soon as next...

‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they've taken on $200 million in their Series B investment round. As reported by Tech Crunch, the Series B investment round was lead by Spark Capital in participation with Founders...
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MMO-like Dungeon Combat Game ‘Age of Heroes’ Launches From Vive X Portfolio Company Omnigames

Omnigames, among one of the first companies to join HTC's Vive X accelerator, has launched their "multiplayer combat VR game," Age of Heroes, on Steam. Age of Heroes aims to bring a MMO-like experience to VR, which means choosing classes, casting abilities,...

Meta CTO on Wireless Compute Pucks for Quest: They Don’t Solve the Problem

Reducing weight and increasing performance are two of the most important factors in pushing standalone XR headsets forward. While Meta has shown off its own Orion AR glasses prototype using a wireless compute unit, Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth doesn't think...

ILMxLAB: ‘Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge’ First Look Coming July 28th

ILMxLAB today announced that its upcoming VR experience Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge is getting a 'first look' next week, July 28th, which should hopefully demystify the studio's next built-for-VR original story. Update (July 21st, 2020): ILMxLab say that on...

‘Waves of Grace’ is the Powerful 360 Film of an Ebola Survivor from the UN and...

To help raise awareness and show the impact of Ebola in that area, the United Nations and Vice Media teamed up with a virtual reality production company, VRSE, to tell the story of one survivor using 360 degree immersive...

Vrgineers Announce Wireless Module for XTAL Ultrawide FOV Headset

Vrgineers, the team behind enterprise-focused wide-FOV VR headsets, announced at CES 2023 this week that it's releasing a wireless version of its latest XTAL VR headset. To realize the newest flavor of XTAL coming to enterprise, the company worked with...

Google Glass Project Leader Interviewed by Charlie Rose, Wears a Glass Prototype to the Interview

Sebastian Thrun, who is one of the project leads for Google's Project Glass, sat down for an interview with Charlie Rose and chats about the augmented reality project, among other things. Thrun brought a Project Glass prototype with him...
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Creator of Rhythm Action Game ‘Thumper’ Announces New VR Game Set for 2024

One of the co-creators of Thumper (2016), an acclaimed rhythm action game that eventually got VR support, has announced a new VR-first game called Thrasher with some totally unique-looking gameplay. While Thumper was a flatscreen game first with an eventual VR mode, the upcoming...
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‘Bulletstorm VR’ Gets Brief Delay, Pushing Launch to Early 2024

Bulletstorm, the co-op shooter first launched on flatscreen in 2011, was slated to come to VR for the first time in December. Now the studios say it's launching a few weeks later than originally planned, pushing release into January. Update...

Project Holodeck Update: Razer Now Official Sponsor, The Team Tests the Oculus Rift

Exciting info for the team of Project Holodeck, Razer is now an official sponsor. The company, which was founded in 1998 and manufacturers PC peripherals for hardcore gamers, will supply the Holodeck team with hardware pertinent to the project and...

Nokia’s ‘OZO’ VR Camera Pre-orders for $60,000, Shipping in Q1 2016

Announced at a Nokia media event last night in Los Angeles, the company has finally put a price to OZO, it's professional grade 360-degree camera rig revealed back in July. Nokia is asking an upfront deposit of $5,000 for...

Valve Now Prompting Rift Owners to Install SteamVR

Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR's flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users and prompting them to install...

HTC Pushes Back On Reports of Declining Headset Sales

Digital Trends recently published a report entitled 'VR is in a tailspin, and the sales numbers prove it'. It seems HTC has taken umbrage with the article's thesis in its newest blog post however, which pushes back against some...

Facebook’s Bosworth: Quest 2 Has Outsold All Oculus Headsets Combined

During an interview with Bloomberg this week, Facebook Reality Labs VP, Andrew Bosworth, said that Quest 2 has outsold all Oculus headsets combined, a significant milestone for a headset which has only been available for five and a half months. Adding...
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