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Starbreeze Bolsters VR & AR Team with $1.65M Acquisition of ePawn
Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space.
Starbreeze seems to...
‘Batman: Arkham VR’ Launches on Vive and Rift
Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is one of PlayStation VR's top games, and an exclusive too, until now. Developer Rocksteady has launched the game for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Update (4/25/17, 2:53PM PT): Batman: Arkham VR has launched on...
Watch the First 12 Minutes of ‘Budget Cuts’
Budget Cuts (2018) is a room-scale VR stealth game from indie studio Neat Corporation. Launching on May 31st on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, we took the time to show you just what this objectively fantastic game looks like from...
FundamentalVR Raises $5.6M Investment to Further Develop VR Surgery Training Tools
FundamentalVR, a company specializing in VR medical training, has closed a £4.3 million (~$5.6 million) Series A funding round in effort to further develop its surgical training and data analysis platform, Fundamental Surgery.
The funding round was led by Downing...
ArborXR Secures $12M Funding to Scale Enterprise XR Device Management Platform
ArborXR, an XR device management company working in the enterprise space, announced it has secured $12 million in new funding. The company says it will use the funding to further scale its mobile device management (MDM) platform, which allows...
Somnium Space Raises $1M to Expand Social VR Platform
Somnium Space, the studio behind the titular social VR platform, announced they've successfully completed a $1 million seed round, something the company says will help them "further strengthen its development of a huge-scale Persistent, Open and Social Virtual Reality...
Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday
This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact...
Watch NVIDIA’s GTC 2016 Opening Keynote Livestream at 9:00AM PT
It's GTC 2016 week and NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang takes to the stage at 9:00AM for an opening keynote that will discuss how the GPU intersects artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. Join us here for the livestream.
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James Cameron: ‘If I wasn’t making Avatar [sequels] I would be experimenting with VR’
James Camera is one of Hollywood's most celebrated directors, best known for Titanic, and Avatar, two of the world's top grossing films. He's also been an evangelist of technological innovation in cinema production. Despite past skepticism, Cameron's latest thoughts on VR...
Meta Reveals New Prototype VR Headsets Focused on Retinal Resolution and Light Field Passthrough
Meta unveiled two new VR headset prototypes that showcase more progress in the fight to solve some persistent technical challenges facing VR today. Presenting at SIGGRAPH 2023, Meta is demonstrating a headset with retinal resolution combined with varifocal optics, and...
Jim Ryan Appointed President & CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony has officially announced that John Kodera has stepped down as president and CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), making way for previous SIE deputy president Jim Ryan to take the position.
Kodera is moving to a position in the...
Have Facebook’s Big Bets on Oculus Exclusive Games Been Successful? A Data-driven Look
Facebook has purportedly spent at least $500 million to bring a wide range of content to its VR headsets. A portion of that investment was bet on big budget exclusive games, like Asgard's Wrath and Medal of Honor: Above...
‘Pistol Whip’ Gets Dieselpunk-inspired Level in New ‘Dark Skies’ Update
Pistol Whip (2019), the VR rhythm-shooter from Cloudhead Games, just got a new dielselpunk-inspired update, available now on Oculus Quest and SteamVR-compatible headsets.
Called 'Dark Skies', the update includes a new level set on Zeppelin, replete with hanger bay and...
Epic Releases Unreal Engine 5 But Its Headlining Features Aren’t Ready for VR
This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global illumination) and Nanite (micro-polygon geometry), which could...
Google Brings AR Mode to ‘Motion Stills’ Android App
Google recently launched an augmented reality mode for the Android version of its video capture app Motion Stills, which brings the ability to insert AR objects into the world so you can record GIFs and video.
Much like Google's AR...








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