Oculus Founder: Price Isn’t What’s Holding VR Back From Mass Adoption
Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus who left the company in 2017, recently published an article with his thoughts on what it will take for VR to reach the mainstream. Price, he argues, matters little if the experience is...
David Attenborough’s VR Experience ‘Hold the World’ Lands on Rift
Hold the World (2018) is an educational VR experience from Sky that lets you come face-to-face with Sir David Attenborough, the English broadcaster and world’s foremost naturalist, as he teaches you about a number of species going as far back as the Trilobite and as...
Bell Says Latest Helicopter was Designed 10 Times Faster With VR
Bell Helicopter challenged its Innovation Team to accelerate its aircraft design process. Turning to VR as a key improvement to their design pipeline, the team created the FCX-001, the company's first “concept aircraft,” in just six months.
Typically it takes...
HTC Joins VirtualLink to Support Connection Standard for Future VR Headsets
Back in July, many of VR's biggest players announced the VirtualLink Consortium, a group unified around creating a connection standard for future VR headsets. HTC was seemingly the odd one out back at the initial announcement, but this week...
Report: Oculus is Planning a Modest Upgrade to Rift, Releasing Early as Next Year
Oculus co-founder and Facebook's head of PC VR Brendan Iribe is leaving the company amidst a TechCrunch report that Facebook cancelled its second iteration of Rift. Now, a new report maintains the company is heading in a different direction with...
Target to Discount All PSVR Bundles by $100 on Black Friday
Retailers are already gearing up for this year's big Black Friday deals, and Target is advertising one of the cheapest prices on PSVR bundles we've ever seen.
At Target, all PSVR bundles are getting a $100 discount on November 23rd....
Report: Apple Nearly Acquired Leap Motion but the Deal Fell Through
According to a report from Business Insider, earlier this year Apple was on the verge of acquiring Leap Motion, but the deal fell through days before it was expected to close. According to the report, this is the second time...
IMAX Shutters VR Experience Centre in New York, No New VR Investment in 2019
Last year, IMAX opened a number of VR Experience Centres in major cities across the world with the hopes of bringing movie-going crowds high-quality VR games and brand engagement experiences such as ILMxLab's Star Wars: Trials on Tatoine. Now,...
Sony Licenses PSVR Headset Design to Lenovo for New Mirage Solo
Sony and Lenovo announced they've signed a two-year patent license agreement that will allow Lenovo to base a future VR headset off the PSVR industrial design.
Lenovo says the PSVR design will be used in the making of a new...
Facebook Working to Bring ‘Quill’ Artwork to Oculus Quest
Quill is Facebook's first-party VR art tool. While users can view Quill artwork in the program itself and inside of Facebook Spaces, the company is hoping to unlock the artwork by making it viewable on Oculus Quest too.
Oculus launched Quill initially back...















