AxonVR Raises $5.8 Million Seed Investment for Advanced VR Haptics
AxonVR has announced the closure of a $5.8 million seed investment, which is claimed to be the largest secured by a VR haptics company to date. The company intends to use the money to build out their HaptX platform...
HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing
HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios.
Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...
Hands-on: ‘Pluto’ Makes Every VR App Social
Pluto is a new social app currently in alpha from the Seattle-based startup Pluto VR. Instead of taking its cues from multi-user spaces like AltspaceVR or VR Chat however, which provide users with various shared virtual environments and must be run to...
AMD Adds ‘Asynchronous Space Warp’ and More in Huge Radeon Software Update
AMD have announced the release of their latest Radeon software suite, snappily titled "Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition" and, among many other features, the new suite brings with it support for Oculus' newly introduced VR performance enhancement feature Asynchronous...
Microsoft to Debut VR Dev Kits for Windows Holographic in March
Microsoft has confirmed that development kits of VR headsets for their Windows Holographic platform are in the works and will make their debut at GDC 2017 in March.
Today Microsoft confirmed that VR headsets from major manufacturers are set to...
Leap Motion’s New Mobile Hand-tracking Sensor Brings 180-degree Field of View
The new Leap Motion Mobile Platform consists of hardware and software optimised for VR and AR hand tracking on mobile devices. Building on the success of the original Leap Motion device, the brand new hardware aims to be tightly...
VR Headsets from ASUS, Dell, HP, and More Coming in 2017, Will Run on Intel Integrated...
Today at the Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Community event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that VR/AR (mixed reality) headsets from top manufacturers are due to hit the market in 2017. What's more, they'll run on integrated Intel graphics without the...
VR Industry’s Biggest Players Are Banding Together to Create an Open VR Standard
The Khronos Group announced on Tuesday that they have a critical mass of major VR players who are collaborating on a VR open standard. This VR open standard will have a software and hardware component that will enable VR...
‘Werewolves Within’ Review
Based on the popular party game Mafia (also known as Werewolf), Werewolves Within represents Ubisoft's first dive into the world of social VR games. I first got my hands on the game at GDC earlier this year, and while it remains...
Oculus ‘Quill’ is Spectacular, But It’s the Instantly Usable Interface That Surprised Us Most
Quill is Oculus' 'VR paint' app, and it's nothing short of spectacular. Tucked away inside this creative-focused app, however, is an interface that's so simple, you might miss its brilliance.
Quill, which is available to every Touch owner for free,...
