Exclusive: DisplayLink Demonstrates Foveated Compression for Better Wireless VR

DisplayLink has been building out its wireless VR compression technology for the last few years, eventually finding its way into the recently released Vive Wireless Adapter. But VR headsets are inevitably moving toward higher resolutions—as we've seen this week...

Hands-on: VR Motion Controller ‘Atraxa’ Offers Promising 6DOF Without Occlusion Issues

Northern Digital is a Waterloo, Canada-based manufacturer of 3D measurement devices, and while the company has mainly focused on creating for various industries such as medicine and aeronautics throughout their 35 years of existence, they've recently unveiled a reference design...

DisplayLink Showing 60GHz Wireless Adapter Reference Design for Oculus Rift

Connectivity company DisplayLink is showing a reference design for a 60GHz Oculus Rift wireless adapter at CES 2019. DisplayLink created the DisplayLink XR wireless adapter reference design that would go on to become the Vive Wireless Adapter. The unit pairs...

Hands-on: Pimax’s Ultrawide “8K” & “5K” Plus See Big Improvements on the Path to Launch

Last year at CES we took a good long look at Pimax's "8K" headset and saw potential, but identified a number of key issues that would need addressing before the headsets actually hit the market. This year at CES,...

AMD Announces 7nm Gaming GPU Radeon VII, Priced at $700 & Launching February 7th

AMD today unveiled their next gaming GPU, one the company hopes will directly take on NVIDIA's RTX 2080. Dubbed the AMD Radeon VII, it's touted as the world's first 7nm gaming GPU. The AMD Radeon VII is slated to launch...

One of the Biggest Names in Home Fitness is Making a VR Exercise Bike

Games like Beat Saber and Creed: Rise to Glory are a great way to get your heart pumping while having a blast, and after having played a number of these types of games at a near constant since they came to...

New Smartphone-tethered Qualcomm Headset Has 2x the Pixels of Vive Pro

This week at CES 2019 Qualcomm is showing off a new VR reference headset sporting impressive new displays that may well define the next wave of VR headsets. Qualcomm has been a somewhat silent enabler of most of the recent...

Audi-founded Startup to Bring VR to Passengers Looking for Relief from Boredom & Motion Sickness

Using VR in the car sounds like a great way to kill some time on long road trips, but there's a few factors that may stop you from strapping a headset to your face while in the passenger's seat—namely...

Oculus Rift + Touch Now Permanently Priced at $350

After Oculus' big Black Friday sale, which saw Rift & Touch temporarily cut from its regular price of $400 to $350, Oculus now says they're permanently dropping the price of the bundle to just $350. We expect to see the...
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Dell Found a Cool Way to Use Your Smartphone in VR, But Only on Specific Dell Computers

Dell launched Mobile Connect this time last year, letting some Dell & Alienware PC users view and interact with their phone’s notifications and apps on traditional monitors. Now, the company has unveiled a way to bring that same functionality...