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ZEISS Takes Majority Stake in AR/VR Optics Creator Tooz Technologies
ZEISS, the German optical systems manufacturer, announced it's acquired majority share of the joint venture Tooz Technologies, an AR/VR optics creator founded by Zeiss and Deutsche Telekom in 2018.
Zeiss and Deutsche Telekom previously had an even 50% stake in...
Facebook Artist Unveils Impressive Oculus Quest Experience ‘The Last Oasis’, Built in ‘Quill’
Facebook Art Director Goro Fujita works at the company's Social VR team, and while he's typically occupied with creating modest, but fantastical “quillistrations” as a part of his daily regime using Facebook's first-party art tool Quill (2017), Fujita today unveiled...
Former HTC CEO Unveils 5G-enabled VR Headset & Social VR Platform
At a special event in Taipei, Taiwan, HTC cofounder and former CEO Peter Chou today revealed the first products from the new startup XRSPACE. It's serving up both its own 5G-enabled standalone VR headset as well as a new social...
Weta Workshop Job Posting Suggests ‘Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders’ Will Be Multiplayer
Dr. Grordbort's Invaders is an upcoming shooter for Magic Leap One, and while not much is really known about Weta's AR game, a recent job posting searching for a Networking Programmer at Weta Workshop could mean the company is pushing...
Vive Cosmos to Support SteamVR Tracking with Optional Faceplate Add-on
Alongside opening pre-orders for the headset, HTC today revealed that Vive Cosmos will support SteamVR Tracking with an optional faceplate 'Mod', one of several which the company says will expand the headset's functionality.
Today HTC revealed the price, specs, and...
‘Rec Room’ to Bring He-Man Avatars in ‘Masters of the Universe’ Event
Social VR platform Rec Room is getting another big brand collaboration with the limited-time release of avatar items based on the world of Masters of the Universe, which will let you transform into He-Man, Teela, or the dastardly Skeletor.
From December 15th...
Rewind FX Uses Lidar-scanning and UE4 for Red Bull Air Race VR Experience
Road to VR was invited to an event at Red Bull Studios London to be among the first to try the latest version of the Red Bull Air Race VR Experience with positional tracking and the Oculus Rift DK2, an...
OptiTrack Shows Hundreds of Simultaneously Tracked Objects in a Single VR Experience
OptiTrack at GDC last week showed off a demonstration of their enterprise/commercial tracking technology which is capable of accurately tracking hundreds of objects simultaneously in real-time. For those building out of home applications with VR, OptiTrack now has available...
Samsung Gear VR Now Officially Available in the US, Launches Internationally ‘Early 2015’
After over months of rumours and an official unveiling at IFA 2014 just 3 months ago, Samsung's Note 4 based VR Headset Gear VR is now finally available to buy.
Gear VR Has Arrived
Samsung has officially announced that as of today,...
A Look at NASA’s Hybrid Reality Astronaut Training System, Powered by HTC Vive
At NVIDIA's GTC event earlier this month, NASA gave a talk which revealed just how important virtual reality has become to the organisation's Astronaut training program. This talk includes video demonstrations of NASA's advanced experiments designed to give workers...
JBD Shows Micro LED Display for AR/VR with Absurd 3,000,000 Nits Brightness
This week at CES 2020, China-based Jade Bird Display (JBD) revealed its latest portfolio of micro LED displays which the company is positioning as an ideal fit for AR and VR devices. Among the company's miniscule displays is a...
‘Echo Arena’ Becomes ‘Echo VR’ to Make Way for ‘Echo Combat’, and Maybe More One Day
With the Echo Combat beta opening today, and the full experience launching later this year, Oculus and Ready at Dawn are doing some reorganization to set the stage for the ongoing expansion of the Echo universe. Today, Echo Arena becomes...
Samsung Partners with Google & Qualcomm to Release Android-powered XR Device
Samsung's 2023 Unpacked event was all about the company's Galaxy S23 hardware, although at the end of its hour-long presentation the South Korean tech giant announced it was working with Qualcomm and Google to develop an XR device.
TM Roh,...
E3 2017 ‘Day 1’ Roundup: Xbox One X, Fallout 4 VR, Doom VFR and Xbox’s VR...
Here’s a quick summary of all the VR-related news from the first day (or more accurately, ‘day zero’) of E3 2017. Following EA’s early keynote on Sunday, yesterday saw presentations from Microsoft and Bethesda, with some surprising no-shows and...
Amazon, Qualcomm & More Invest $11.2M in TRIPP to Build the “mindful metaverse”
TRIPP, a developer creating VR meditation experiences, announced it's secured $11.2 million funding round which it says will be used to expand so it can meet growing global demand for mental wellbeing apps accessible through AR, VR and mobile...




















