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NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX Cards Bring New VR Rendering Features and Enhancements

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Sep 1, 2018

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NVIDIA’s latest ‘RTX’ cards are not just an incremental step in performance, but represent significant new direction for NVIDIA’s approach to real-time rendering. Built on the company’s ‘Turing’ architecture, the RTX cards pave the way for graphics infused with accelerated ray-tracing and artificial intelligence, and also bring VR-specific enhancements over NVIDIA’s prior 10-series GPUs which are based on the ‘Pascal’ architecture.

Watch the ‘Real’ Magic Leap Whale Take Flight in ‘Helio’ Web Experiment

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Aug 31, 2018

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Back in 2016, Magic Leap released a video clip of a breaching augmented reality whale as a backdrop to their freshly redesigned website, something meant to grab the attention of prospective investors, developers, and consumers alike. Now, through Magic Leap’s Helio browser, we can finally see what an augmented reality whale actually looks like running on Magic Leap One.

‘Torn’ Review: Masterful ‘Black Mirror’ Style Storytelling Tarnished by Repetitive Puzzles

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Torn is a single player adventure game that’s inspired by arguably the greatest sci-fi television of all time, The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. There’s much to like about Torn, but in the end it left me feeling, well, a bit torn.

Mozilla’s ‘Hubs’ Gets More Useful With Instant Media and 3D Model Imports

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Aug 30, 2018

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Mozilla’s Hubs is a WebVR based VR chatroom that anyone can join on a wide range of devices just by plugging a URL into their web browser. A new update to the platform now allows instant importing of media and 3D models to be shared with everyone in the room, giving Hubs a big usability boost.

Imogen Heap VR Concert Experience to Land on ‘TheWaveVR’ August 31st

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Aug 30, 2018

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Imogen Heap, the Grammy-award winning musician, is following in the footsteps of TOKiMONSTA, Ash Koosha, and The Glitch Mob with a social VR concert experience, hosted on TheWaveVR platform soon.

‘Creed: Rise to Glory’ Slated to Launch Next Month, Pre-orders Now Live

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Aug 30, 2018

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Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018), are getting ready to release their next big VR title soon, which puts you in the boxing ring as underdog Adonis Creed on his quest to become the light heavyweight champ of the world.

Oculus to Donate Rift & Go to Learning Institutions Across Seattle, Taiwan, & Japan

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Aug 30, 2018

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Oculus recently announced the’ll be expanding their educational pilot program by donating Oculus Rift and Oculus Go headsets to a number of educational institutions across Taiwan, Japan, and Seattle.

Magic Leap’s First Developer Conference is Coming to L.A. in October

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Aug 30, 2018

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Magic Leap, the Florida-based AR company behind the Magic Leap One headset, just announced the dates of the first developers conference.

Apple Acquires AR Optics Startup Akonia Holographics

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Aug 30, 2018

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Apple has acquired Akonia Holographics, a startup focused on holographic display and storage technology. The move is the latest development in a years-long string of acquisitions, patents, and hirings by the company focused on augmented and virtual reality technology

‘Golem’ on Track for 2018 Launch, Affirms Highwire Games

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Aug 30, 2018

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Despite several delays under its belt, Golem, a unique looking VR adventure title headed to PSVR, is on track to launch in 2018, affirms developer Highwire Games.

Former ‘God of War’ Devs Launch Kickstarter for Colossal VR Shooter ‘Titan Arena’

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Aug 29, 2018

Lightbound Studios, a company founded by two former God of War series developers, are aiming to bring something truly colossal to VR with their upcoming first-person shooter Titan Arena.

Acer Unveils New Business-friendly Windows VR Headset with Detachable Display

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Aug 29, 2018

Acer today announced a new Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headset. Dubbed the Acer OJO 500 (pronounced ‘O-ho’), the new headset is packing a few features that seem to be making overtures to the commercial sector.

Avegant Raises $12M Financing to Further Develop AR Display Tech

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Aug 29, 2018

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Avegant, the AR display company known for its Glyph head-mounted display, announced that the company has successfully closed a $12M Series AA financing, which will allow them to further develop their light field technologies and “high resolution, low latency, and high brightness” retinal displays.

Firewall Zero Hour Review: Tactical Multiplayer Action Comes to PSVR

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Firewall Zero Hour has landed on PSVR, and with it comes the platform’s first tactical multiplayer FPS. While the slow one-life-only pace might not suit everyone’s taste, it makes for undeniably tense and strategic gameplay that’s enhanced by the immersion of VR.

Hands-on: ‘Nostos’ Aims to Deliver Anime-inspired Open World RPG in VR

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Aug 28, 2018

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Nostos, an upcoming open world RPG from China-based tech company NetEase, made its Western debut at Gamescom this year with something that appears to be heavily influenced by the popular anime series such as Sword Art Online.

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