Samsung’s New Standalone VR Headset May be Called ‘Odyssey’

Samsung reportedly confirmed back at the company's own developer conference that a new, standalone VR headset was on it's way and new trademark filings may indicate it's name. Considering the non existent market that Samsung's 'Oculus Engineered' mobile headset entered when...

HTC Vive Accessory Store Now Stocks Things You Actually Need

Want to know how much a replacement HTC Vive Base Station or SteamVR controller would set you back should the worst happen? HTC's Vive accessory store has been updated to include these items, along with some eye opening prices. The HTC...
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New Magic Leap Videos Shows AR Shopping and Voice Control

A new video of Magic Leap's augmented reality tech in action was shown at a conference in China today. On stage at the event, Magic Leap CMO Brian Wallace had a one-on-one discussion with Alibaba CMO Chris Tung (Alibaba is...

Facebook CEO: ‘In Five to Ten Years AR Will Be Where VR is Today’

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company is working seriously on augmented reality R&D, but he believes it will take time for the technology to catch up to where VR is today. In an interview with The Verge's Casey Newton, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg...

Immersive Game Design Lessons from ‘Pokémon Go’

Pokémon Go has quickly become the #1 mobile game of all time, and while there's been some debate as to whether it should be considered Augmented Reality or not, it's clear that location-based gaming has taken to the next...

NVIDIA’s Next-gen Titan X Has 11 TFLOPS Performance, 12GB of Memory, and Costs 1 Arm and...

This evening at an artificial intelligence event at Stanford, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang revealed the next-gen Titan X, the company's crazy-powerful, crazy-expensive high-end GPU. Nvidia is bringing its Titan X card into the next generation with a new version of the...

PlayStation VR Game Prices Previewed in Amazon Listings

Listings on Amazon have revealed prices for some PlayStation VR games, giving an idea of what Sony plans to charge for the first wave of virtual reality titles to hit the console platform. PlayStation VR launches in October and we've...
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NVIDIA Says New Foveated Rendering Technique is More Efficient, Virtually Unnoticeable

NVIDIA Research has demonstrated a new method of foveated rendering which the company says is nearly invisible to users. Researchers behind the new approach say the method can drastically reduce rendering workload, allowing for more detailed virtual reality scenes. The human eye...

Designing a VR Experience for Streaming Spectators on VREAL

What are the game design considerations for creating a VR experience that will be compelling for not only the primary player, but also the spectators who may be watching it on a livestream with VREAL? This was the big...

OSVR Launches Pre-orders for HDK 2 VR Headset, Begins Shipping July 29

Starting today OSVR is taking pre-orders for the HDK 2, the modular, open source ‘Hacker Development Kit’ VR headset which the organization says will ship starting on July 29th. Sold in its basic configuration for $399, the new HDK 2 will be largely the same...