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Rev VR Podcast (Ep.91): What is HoloLens? A look at Microsoft’s New Augmented Reality Device with...

As usual, something fun gets announced, and I am stuck in a conference room at work trying to suppress the non-stop beeping of my phone. Microsoft announced it's new augmented reality headset today, HoloLens. I felt this needed to...

Samsung Talks Gear VR Development and Thoughts of a VR Feature Phone Way Back in 2005

Details have emerged about the evolutionary past of Samsung's Gear VR, offering a look at the formational stages of the device's history. The pictures show some prototype design concepts that explore an interesting relationship between the smartphone and the VR...

Microsoft HoloLens Reveal Concept Video

Prior to actually showing the device on stage at a Windows 10 press event today, Microsoft rolled a concept video giving examples of how the company envisions the device being used. None of this is particularly new when you look...

‘Microsoft HoloLens’ Revealed, an Untethered See-through AR Headset

Today at Microsoft's Windows 10 press event, the company revealed an untethered augmented reality headset called the Microsoft HoloLens to accompany 'Windows Holographic', a component of Windows 10. Microsoft has just revealed the HoloLens and says it is fully untethered,...

‘Never Blind in VR’ Keeps You in Contact with Your Surroundings Using Kinect 2 (video)

Using a Kinect 2, French firm Dassault Systemes has recently demonstrated a solution to some of the problems associated with the isolating nature of modern VR headsets. The company has prototyped a system that not only allows you access...

Adventures in Multiplayer VR with Radial-G and an Oculus Rift LAN Party

Take a room full of geeks, a collection of networked gaming PCs, a trio of Oculus Rift DK2s and the latest virtual reality racers and what do you have? A somewhat unconventional christmas party. The place, an office building somewhere in the...

Hands-on: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES

FOVE, a VR headset prototype in the works by a Japan-based team, is quickly closing the experience gap between itself and the Oculus Rift. If they continue at this pace, they could catch up, and with a trick up...

nDreams Lands $2.75 Million Investment for VR Game Development

nDreams, a UK based videogame development studio, today announced a $2.75 million investment from Mercia Technologies for the development of VR content. The studio has several projects in the works including Gunner, which was recently launched as a demo on...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.90): It’s Not Just Gaming – Corporate Applications of VR with Stefan Pernar

It's easy to see that virtual reality will change the face of gaming. We can see just by the volume of VR developers that have stepped into the spotlight over the course of the last year that video games...

Hands-on with Pinć VR Prototype, the VR Headset Hidden in a Smartphone Case

'The best camera is the one that's always with you,' so goes the saying. The folks from Cordon, a Canadian digital agency, are hoping that the same will be true about virtual reality; that's why they're making a...

New Soundscape VR Update, Gear VR and Cardboard Support to Come

Sander Sneek, developer of Soundscape VR and semi-finalist in the IndieCade Leap Motion 3D Jam, has recently issued an update to his beat-mixing jam machine that adds a few more bells and whistles, fleshing out the demo to an experience that...

AMD to Share Low-Latency VR GPU Rendering Tricks at GDC 2015

GDC 2015 is just around the corner and the event's conference schedule has revealed that semiconductor giant AMD will be sharing tips and tricks designed to help developers targeting virtual reality to get the best performance for virtual reality from the company's...

Google Glass “Graduates” from Google[x], New Dedicated Team Teases ‘Glass 2’

Google has recently announced the discontinuation (or as they put it, "graduation") of its beta phase wearable, Google Glass. As Glass 2 is teased by its (now dedicated) team, Google's investment in secretive 'cinematic reality' company, Magic Leap, has us scratching...

Who’d’ve Guessed? With Support for 360 Video on the way, YouTube Could Become the ‘YouTube of...

YouTube is adding support for 360 degree video, a move that could put the video streaming giant in a position to offer the largest cross-platform service of its kind. And when it comes to the topic on who will...

Final Week: Pinć VR Nears Crowdfunding Goal for Smartphone Case That Transforms into a VR Headset

There's only a week remaining in Pinć VR's crowdfunded drive to take mobile VR out of backpacks and makeshift carry cases and put it straight in your pocket, and with the recently addition of support for selected Android devices,...
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