Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model
Valve has announced a new 'Site Licensing' model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés.
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Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology
The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company's annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. This time, at...
PlayStation VR Teardown Reveals Display Curiosity and Lenses
A hardware launch wouldn’t be complete without an iFixit teardown, and the most recent VR device on their operating table is Sony’s PlayStation VR.
With decades of experience in hardware design and manufacturing, and having created many non-VR head-mounted displays...
Mozilla on Enabling the Open Metaverse with WebVR, A-Frame, and Servo
Some of the earliest experiments of making VR a first-class citizen on the web originated at Mozilla in 2014. Then the WebVR spec was drafted in a collaboration between Mozilla and Google's implementations. There's been a lot of excitement...
Hands-on: Idealens’ All-in-one VR Headset Looks Crazy, But You’ll Wear it Anyway
There's been a lot of talk lately (including from yours truly), about the impressive comfort of Sony's PlayStation VR headset, but Idealens K2, a mobile all-in-one VR headset out of China, features a promising new ergonomic approach that might...
The White House Highlights 6 Funding Opportunities for VR Education Projects
Got an idea for how virtual reality could revolutionize education? The White House suggests six ways you could get funding to make it a reality.
Education is one of the most obvious use-cases for VR; its ability to immerse and...
Acclaimed Oculus Shooter ‘Dead and Buried’ to Come Bundled With Touch
Oculus has announced that the first-party VR game Dead and Buried will come bundled for free with Oculus Touch (for all purchases, not just pre-orders), bringing the Touch bundled content count to three games.
Dead and Buried joins the Touch...
Lyrobotix Merges Ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like Tech for Portable Positional VR Tracking
Lyrobotix is developing a portable outside-in positional tracking system for mobile VR headsets that uses a combination of ultrasonic and Lighthouse-like tracking.
While big names in the VR space hope to create a robust inside-out positional tracking solution for mobile...
Watch: Latest Unity VR Editor Shown Off at Unite, Releasing in 2016
During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR, which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the...
FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549
It's been a long road for FOVE, the creators of the eye-tracking VR headset that hit Kickstarter last summer, but today the company launches pre-orders for their first commercially available product, the FOVE 0. Pre-orders start at a special discount price of...














