Varjo’s ‘Workspace’ Demo is a Glimpse of VR’s Long Term Future in the Workplace

Beyond the unique selling point of Varjo's headsets—a novel display concept which offers 'retina resolution'—the company is pioneering the way in which VR headsets could be a part of the day-to-day enterprise workflow. This week at CES 2020 I got...

Hands-on: Pico Neo 2 Could Be the Next Best Standalone After Quest

At CES this week, Pico unveiled a pair of its latest standalone VR headsets, Neo 2 and Neo 2 Eye. While the company is targeting enterprise customers in the West, the Neo 2 line is eyeing up the same...

Hands-on: Pico ‘VR Glasses’ Prototype is the Most Impressive VR Viewer Yet

This week at CES 2020, Pico quietly revealed a prototype headset which its calling the Pico VR Glasses. This phone-tethered 3DOF 'VR viewer' was surprisingly complete, offering a decent resolution and field of view, focus adjustment, and motion controller...

CREAL Picks up $7.4 Million in Funding for Its Light-field Tech

When we caught up with CREAL and its light-field tech at CES 2020 this week, the founders also filled us in on the latest happenings with the company, including the closure of a recent funding round which, between investments...

‘Job Simulator’ Goes Platinum, Selling Over 1 Million Copies to Date

Owlchemy Labs has something to celebrate, as the Google-owned VR studio announced that its tongue-in-cheek parody simulator game Job Simulator (2016) has officially broken the one million unit sales mark. Job Simulator was a launch title for HTC Vive, PSVR, and Oculus...

Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets

Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking...

VRLEO Brings Competition to Out-of-Home VR with Ingenious Arcade Kiosk

VRLEO is a company based in Los Angles and Shanghai that's looking to shake up the out-of-home VR scene with its arcade kiosks. At CES this week we got a chance to go hands on with the company's flagship...

Hands-on with TEGway’s VR Thermal Haptics Dev Kit, Launching in March

Korea-based TEGway, developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. We got to try the latest prototype this week...

Pimax’s Full VR Headset Lineup Compared

Pimax announced some new additions to its line of wide field of view VR headsets recently. With the constantly growing number of headset variations and mind-boggling additional prefixes to account for, you're certainly not alone if you can't keep...

NextMind Unveils $400 Brain-Computer Interface Developer Kit

NextMind, a Paris-based brain-computer interface (BCI) startup, debuted a $400 neural interface dev kit at CES this week, something the company intends to release to developers in the first half of 2020. NextMind's device is a non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG), which...