Innoactive Secures €4.4M for Expansion of VR/AR Enterprise Software Platform
Innoactive, the enterprise-focused VR/AR software company, announced it's completed a successful funding round of €4.4 million (~$5.15 million USD). The lead investor is Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners), and is joined by Capnamic Ventures.
Founded in 2015, Innoactive has...
Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS as Apple and Valve Forge Ahead
Apple has shown that it's getting serious about the VR on Mac with platform-spanning VR announcements crossing both hardware and software at last year's WWDC event. With SteamVR and the Vive now up and running on MacOS, eyes turn...
Apple Joins the Impending Avatar Wars With Memoji
At Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple announced a new avatar system, dubbed 'Memoji', the company's next step into the world of iPhone X animated emojis mapped to a user's facial movements. Move over Samsung AR Emoji, because Apple looks to...
Apple Unveils ARKit 2.0, Putting Multiuser AR at Its Core
At Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) today, the company confirmed that ARKit 2.0 is coming with a list of new features, including mutiuser support, and a bevy of updates that look to refine AR interactions on iOS devices.
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NextVR Debuts New High Resolution Video Format with NBA Finals Highlights Reels
NextVR, the company specializing in live VR sports and entertainment broadcasting, has already begun its public debut of the new high-resolution video format teased back at CES earlier this year, which comes via free, on-demand game highlights of the 2018 NBA...
SUPERHOT Team Searching for a Producer for “shiny new VR project”
The team behind the SUPERHOT franchise is looking for a producer for "a shiny new VR project," according to a recent job posting on the company's website.
The core team is working on updates to the studio's latest release, the standalone game SUPERHOT:...
Steam Survey: HTC Vive Neck and Neck with Oculus Rift After Repeated Gains
Valve's monthly Steam hardware and software survey is out again, and it appears HTC Vive is holding firm ground on the platform after Oculus Rift took majority market share in March as the most popular VR headset on Steam.
After a...
DigiLens is Developing a Waveguide Display for 150 Degree XR Headsets
DigiLens, a developer of transparent waveguide display technology, says it's working toward a waveguide display which could bring a 150 degree field of view to AR and VR (or XR) headsets. The company expects the display will be available...
‘Where Thoughts Go’ is an Anonymous, Immersive Social Network for Reflecting on the Human Experience
Where Thoughts Go is a unique social network where users can share intimate thoughts and emotions in an immersive and inviting way, in the form of anonymous audio entries. The app has now launched in Early Access on the...
‘Elite Dangerous: Beyond – Chapter Two’ to Arrive on All Supported Platforms This Month
Elite Dangerous (2014), the open universe MMO space simulator from Frontier Games, is getting its next chapter soon which will include a new ship, a few new mechanics, and improvements to existent systems. Frontier today announced Beyond - Chapter Two will be...
