Hands On: SMI’s Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a Berlin based company involved in creating eye tracking solutions across several industries, and has been doing so for the past 25 years. At MWC I sat down with Christian Villwock, director of OEM sales, to...
Preview: Explode Hordes of Sweet Little Kittens in ‘Kittypocalypse’
Kittypocalypse is a tower defense game from Bolvërk Games that gives you a single mission: stop the kitties at all costs.
Ok, they're not really sweet little doe-eye kitty cats, but rather evil aliens disguised as such, and that's what makes...
Sony Send Out Invites to PlayStation VR GDC Press Event
Sony have sent out invites to an "exclusive PlayStation VR press event", due to take place during the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco on March 15th.
Sony's affinity with the GDC conference in San Francisco in relation to its...
Samsung is Giving Away Far More Gear VR Units Than We Expected
After reading into the offer terms of Samsung's Gear VR giveaway for S7 pre-orders, which appeared to limit the number of free units to 300,000 in the US, Samsung has reached out to clarify that they're actually giving away...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
More Than 300,000 Free Gear VR Headsets Will Come With US S7 Pre-orders, Starting Today (Updated)
This weekend Samsung announced they would be giving a free Gear VR headset to anyone pre-ordering the new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, with a "while supplies last" caveat. With pre-orders opening today, we've learned that Samsung will be...
‘Thunderbird’ Father-Son Dev Team Win ‘Best VR Experience’ at Vision Summit
For the past year, Tony Davidson and his 17-year old son Kai have been tucked away in the hills of Oregon collaborating on a VR experience that was inspired from one of Kai's dreams. Thunderbird is a puzzle adventure...
ThingLink Raises $1.3 Million to Expand Media Annotation Platform to VR
Money continues to pour into the VR space, but not all of it is aimed at brand new ventures. Last week, the interactive media platform, ThingLink (founded in 2008), announced the closing of a $1.3M round of new funding...
Early SteamVR Performance Test Included Hidden Half-Life & Left 4 Dead Demo Code
Valve have just released a new tool to determine if your gaming PC is up to the task of running SteamVR experiences unlocked with the HTC Vive. But, buried in the code of the tool lies some interesting glimpses...
Movidius’ Dedicated Vision Processing Chip is Coming Soon to AR and VR Headsets
Movidius may be a little known name to the average consumer, but the company behind Google Project Tango's Myriad 1 vision processing chip is gearing up to release their new chip architecture in both VR and AR headset manufacturers, and a...
