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Oculus: Touch is “Fully Capable” of Roomscale Tracking, But Skeptical It’s “Absolutely Necessary for VR”

As the launch of Oculus Touch approaches later this year, the company is sticking firm to its plan to focus on standing, front-facing VR experiences for motion input. Though it's claimed that Touch can match the 'roomscale' tracking of...

You Can Finally Ride the Light Cycle from ‘Tron: Legacy’ in Virtual Reality

Tron, a franchise whose style influenced the look and feel of many early VR depictions, is also the birthplace of the famous Light Cycle. Now an Oculus Rift developer has created a demo to put users on the awesome...

ODG Raises $58 Million Series A Investment for AR Glasses, New Products to Debut in January

San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they've raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. ODG's current flagship device is the enterprise-focused R-7 Smartglasses System which sell...

Apple’s New Patents Mark More Territory in AR Hardware and Software

Steve Jobs once said to a gathering of senior advisers that when it came to the first iPhone, “we’re going to patent it all,” (New York Times reports). While Apple has certainly changed in the years since Job's passing,...

Inside the Burgeoning World of Chinese VR Headsets and HMDs

Over the last three years, the rise of VR in public discourse has been impossible to ignore. During this time, most mainstream discussions have centered on the same few efforts in the US : Oculus, Valve/HTC, Sony, Samsung, and Google....

Devs Behind ‘Max Payne’ and ‘Quantum Break’ Form New VR House, ‘3rd Eye Studios’

3rd Eye Studios is a new VR developer team formed from Remedy Entertainment alum and they're working on a new, original made-for-VR anthology inspired by 70's sci-fi television shows. Here's an exclusive first look at some of the first art for...

Oculus Acquires Computer Vision Company Surreal Vision for 3D Scene Reconstruction

Oculus today announced that they've acquired Surreal Vision, a computer vision company that's using technology to interpret the real world in a way that can be visualized and interacted with within virtual reality. Surreal Vision is a UK company that was founded...

Not an Early April Fools Prank: Facebook Acquires Oculus VR Inc for $2 Billion—Breaking

According to a press release issued by PR Newswire, Facebook has today announced that it has agreed to purchase Oculus VR Inc for $2 billion. In a move that was unknown even to some within Oculus, Facebook has agreed to...
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AMD Creates VR Gaming Rig of the Future with ‘Project Quantum’

AMD recently unveiled a supercharged, small form factor PC at E3 this week, a futuristic-looking gaming rig that promises to easily deliver the 90 FPS required by VR headsets like the new Oculus Rift. They're calling it 'Project Quantum', and is...
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Hands-on: Intel’s Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Roomscale Multiplayer Demo

At CES 2017, Intel was showing off more of its Project Alloy VR headset, including a roomscale multiplayer demo featuring 'merged reality', where the game environment adapts to your physical surroundings. Project Alloy Project Alloy is Intel's VR headset reference design....

SEER 100 Degree FOV ‘Augmented Reality’ Headset Approaches $100,000 Kickstarter Goal

SEER, an augmented reality device from San Francisco/Shenzhen based Caputer Labs Inc, launched their Kickstarter campaign in late January, and have already reached beyond $75,000 of their $100,000 funding goal. The device, which takes advantage of the user's smartphone,...

First Glimpse of Linden Lab’s Next-gen Virtual World, Project Sansar

Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life (2003), has been cooking up their new VR-ready virtual world in stealth for some time now. The company has revealed two screenshots giving us the first glimpse of what that new world...

Only Select Developers Can Publish Google Daydream Apps Until 2017

Google Daydream is supposed to launch Fall 2016, but only a select group of developers will be able to publish Daydream apps to the Google Play store until 2017. Daydream, Google's high-end VR initiative for Android, is set to launch...

Now on Rift, ‘Tilt Brush’ is the First Google App on Facebook’s VR Platform

After a long and somewhat awkward period of Google keeping all of their VR apps from Facebook's VR platforms on desktop (with Rift) and mobile (with Gear VR), Tilt Brush is the first VR olive branch extended across the platform...
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