Hardlight VR $499 Haptic Suit Kickstarter Passes $80k Target

Hardlight VR is a new haptic suit from Nullspace VR that launched its Kickstarter last week. It's already set to pass its original goal and the team have announced the project's first stretch goal. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morgansinko/hardlight-vr-suit-dont-just-play-the-game-feel-it/updates We wrote recently about Nullspace VR's...

Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC

This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they've been working on for GDC next week. It aptly highlights the subtle yet striking enhancements that eye tracking may being...

Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One

Danfung Dennis of Condition One has an ambitious vision for the potential of virtual reality, and it's one of the most radical ones that I've come across. He believes that VR can be used as a tool to cultivate...

ARM and SMI to Showcase New Mobile VR Eye-Tracking Demo at GDC

ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. ARM, one of the world's...

SteamVR Tracking HDK Now Available for Anyone to Buy

Valve is increasingly opening its SteamVR Tracking technology—that which powers the HTC Vive's room-scale tracking—to the world. The royalty-free system requires no permission from Valve to be embedded and launched as part of third-party products. And now one of...

Qualcomm & Road to VR Industry Mixer Kicks Off GDC 2017 Next Week

Qualcomm and Road to VR are teaming up to kick off next week's GDC 2017 with a gathering of VR and AR industry insiders. If you're attending GDC 2017, join Qualcomm and Road to VR Monday evening, February 27th, at...

‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz

Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from "Tier 1" VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they're heading next. Bigscreen is simple but...

On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Epic Games’ Technical Director of VR & AR, Nick Whiting

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems...
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Samsung and Six Flags Re-up Collaboration with New VR Coasters Combining ‘Mixed Reality’ and ‘Complex Gameplay’

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation—which runs theme park properties across the americas—and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. recently launched a renewed collaboration on new rides at two Six Flags theme parks which place users on real roller coasters while using a...

ZeniMax Seeks Injunction to Halt Oculus’ Use Rift & Gear VR SDK and More

Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax, the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to...