HoloLens Inside-out Tracking Is Game Changing for AR & VR, and No One Is Talking about...

Augmented reality, while growing in buzz, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades. But immersive head-mounted AR for consumers has had one major hurdle that Microsoft may have just solved. Despite copious concept videos showing...

Oculus Touch Price Revealed in London GAME Store

Touch, the long awaited natural input controller for the Oculus Rift, still doesn't have an official price or release date—but a tweet from Nick Summers, associate editor at Engadget UK, has revealed that Oculus Touch is going to be priced...

Leaked Input Device May Explain Why Investors Just Dropped $120 Million into Thalmic Labs

Thalmic Labs, makers of the gesture control armband MYO may be working on a new VR controller, a wristband device which senses the position of your fingers. The company is teasing new products after closing a whopping $120 million...

Innoactive’s ‘VR Suitcase’ is a Portable, Self-Contained HTC Vive Demo Station

Innoactive has answered the call of nomadic VR developers on-the-go with a super slick portable pop-up, self-powered Vive station in a case, it's called the VR Suitcase and it'll put a serious dent in your wallet. Whilst the HTC Vive...

PlayStation VR Accessories Hit Major Online Retailers

With the PlayStation VR launch just around the corner—October 13th to be exact—major retailers like Amazon, Best Buy and GameStop have started to stock a few accessories that are sure to keep you charged-up at moment's notice and travel-ready for those...

Second-gen Lighthouse Chip Could Improve Tracking, Reduce Cost of HTC Vive 2

A new chip that Valve is recommending for use in future SteamVR headsets and accessories brings improved performance and significant power reduction compared to the first generation solution along with potential manufacturing savings. An essential component in the first generation HTC...

What Dungeons & Dragons Can Teach Us About Storytelling in VR

Dungeons & Dragons is a form of collaborative storytelling that isn't constrained by time or budget. Because it's all happening within the theater of the mind, if you can imagine it, then it can be constructed instantaneously within everyone's...

Spherica’s Stabilization Technology Used in HBO’s ‘Westworld’ VR Experience

HBO premiered a VR experience for their new Westworld series at TechCrunch Disrupt, and they used Spherica's camera stabilization technology in order to pull off an extended live-action tracking shot in VR. Common advice given to new VR filmmakers...

‘Metro’ Devs 4A Games Ready to Reveal Oculus Touch Title, First Glimpses Here

4A Games, the developers behind the popular sci-fi shooter franchise 'Metro', are not only allegedly working on an Oculus Rift title with Touch support, there's a chance we'll get to see it soon. In the mean time, this is...

InstaVR Pulls in $2 Million for Simple VR App Publishing Platform

Platforms continue to lead the charge in VR funding as InstaVR lands a $2 million series A investment led by The VR Fund. InstaVR aims to offer dead-simple VR app creation, allowing non-developers to easily piece together 360 degree photos...