Report: HTC Lays Off 1,500 Employees in Taiwan Manufacturing Division

HTC is reportedly laying off 1,500 employees in its Taiwan manufacturing division, something Bloomberg's Taipei bureau chief Samson Ellis reports to be around 22% of HTC employees. https://twitter.com/samsonellis/status/1013723541760425984 CNET has confirmed that the company is indeed going forward with layoffs in Taiwan, although...
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ISS Astronaut Uses Oculus Rift in Experiment to Understand How Space Affects Hand-eye Coordination

German ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is participating in a study aboard the International Space Station (ISS) that's designed to give Earth-bound researchers a better understanding of how sight, sound, and gravity impacts hand-eye coordination. Using a modified Oculus Rift, Gerst...
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Photorealistic VR Tour ‘Nefertari: Journey to Eternity’ Takes You Deep into a 3,000 Year-old Egyptian Tomb

Using state-of-the-art photogrammetry technology with millimeter accuracy, Simon Che de Boer of Reality Virtual and Experius VR have digitally scanned Nerfertari's tomb, letting owners of Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets step inside the fabled burial site and learn about the over 3,000...

Windows VR Headsets Seeing Slow But Steady Adoption on Steam

The monthly Steam hardware survey is out again, and while June hasn't revealed any major upsets in the balances of usership between HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, the survey shows that Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets are making slow,...

Oculus Cuts Price on Rift Business Bundle, Now Shipping to Four New Regions

Last October Oculus announced its 'Oculus Rift for Business' bundle, offering for the first time a package which included a warranty and license officially sanctioned for commercial use. This week the company dropped the price of the package and...
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Watch a Complete ‘Space Junkies’ Closed Beta Match

Space Junkies, Ubisoft's upcoming VR arena shooter fro Rift and Vive, is now in closed beta, which goes until July 2nd. I called Space Junkies VR's spiritual successor to Unreal Tournament in our preview, but you can check out some of...

Preview: ‘Space Junkies’ Feels Like VR’s Spiritual Successor to ‘Unreal Tournament’

Unreal Tournament (1999) was one of the staple arena shooters of my youth. It's simple; find the best gun you can, stock up on as much health and armor as possible, always keep moving until you die, respawn, rinse...

Pimax Starts Mass Production Phase of “8K” VR Headset

Pimax today announced they've headed into the mass production phase of the Pimax "8K" VR headset. "The obstacles that prevent us from mass production have been eliminated last week, thus the whole project now can move on with full speed towards...

Niantic Offers Tantalizing Peek at Upcoming AR Tech, Announces New Platform for Third-party Devs

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they'll be opening up access to their latest work in AR, dubbed the 'Niantic Real World Platform', to third-party developers soon. To boot, the company...
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Oculus ‘Medium’ 2.0 Overhauls Performance and Tools, Allows Exporting to ‘Home’

Medium, Oculus' first-party VR sculpting and modeling tool, today gets a major update in version 2.0, bringing better performance, improved tools, and the ability to export your creations into your own Oculus Home space. Having launched Medium initially back in...