XR Industry News
The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.
Envelop VR Closes Series A Funding With Google Ventures to Deploy VR Productivity Environment
Envelop VR, a company working on a productivity focused virtual reality environment, today announced they'd closed their Series A funding at $5.5 million with additional investment from Google Ventures.
While VR is great for entertainment, it's also has potential to revolutionize...
Innovate UK Awards £210k to VR and AR Pioneers
There are a number of initiatives out there trying to encourage development into the huge potential represented by virtual and augmented reality's current renaissance. None we've seen are quite as wide in remit though as Innovate UK's national UK...
UK’s ‘SouthWest VR’ Becomes ‘VR World Congress’, Talk Submissions Now Open
The appetite for virtual reality industry gatherings seem to be insatiable at the moment. UK based SouthWest VR just announced that it's last sell-out event was so successful, they're re-branding it with a view to expand its global appeal....
Rev VR Podcast (Ep.88): Introducing OpenGear, A Gear VR Alternative, By Developer Mark Schramm
As a developer, one of the most difficult challenges is getting your hands on the actual hardware you are developing for. Samsung's Gear VR is slowly trickling out to non-US countries, but it may be months before some folks...
Fundraising Lessons No VR Startup Should Miss Shared by Altspace CEO Eric Romo
Eric Romo has been around the venture fundraising block over the last 10 years, not only as the founder of AltspaceVR, where he's raised some $16 million in venture capital, but also at former startup GreenVolts where he helped raise $120...
‘Wearality Sky’ Passes $100,000 Kickstarter Goal, Meetups in San Francisco and New York
With only 4 days left until the official end of its crowdfunding campaign, Wearality Sky has passed its funding goal of $100,000. The company will be offering trials of their 150 degree field of view (FOV) lenses in San Francisco...
Consumer Oculus Rift to Arrive with 4-Month Free Trial of Unity Pro
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey revealed today at Vision Summit 2016 that the company would be giving away 4 months of Unity Professional Edition for free with the purchase of an Oculus Rift.
The move comes as a bid to entice consumers...
Unreal Engine to Add NVIDIA Gameworks VR Support, Including VR SLI
Today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, Epic Games, developers of Unreal Engine, announced that they're partnering with NVIDIA to integrate their Gameworks VR featureset into UE4. VR SLI and Multi-res shading will be availabl in forthcoming updates.
NVIDIA's...
Samsung is Streaming its Unpacked Event to Gear VR and Cardboard
Samsung is keeping the lid shut on exactly why they featured the Gear VR in their 'Unpacked' teaser trailer, an event that promises to see the unveiling of the Galaxy S7. But if you've already got your hands on...
Magic Leap Cancels TED Appearance and Reddit AMA, “Reasons Unknown”
If you thought you were finally getting your hands on some info about the secretive Google-backed startup, Magic Leap, you'd be wrong—at least for now—because amidst much speculation, Magic Leap executives have cancelled their public talks on the technology.
Magic Leap is...
Behind the Scenes of Crytek’s VR Projects
David Bowman is Director of Production at Crytek, and he gave me the inside story of how VR went viral within Crytek to the point of having well over 50 developers and multiple triple AAA quality VR projects in...
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...
AMD Launches ‘Radeon Pro Duo’ Dual GPU Card, Targets VR Content Creators
AMD has unveiled what it's calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it's targeting the product at virtual reality content creators.
Running consumer virtual reality applications and games is already challenging enough in...
New Investigative VR Horror Title ‘Ghost Theory’ Hits Kickstarter
Czech developers Dreadlocks, the company behind crowd funded RPG Dex, have launched their latest Kickstarter campaign for Ghost Theory, a VR focussed horror title that casts you as a clairvoyant paranormal investigator.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dreadlocks/ghost-theory
The latest horror title to take advantage of virtual...
In Search of the Pyjama People: VR’s New Wave of Bedroom Coders
Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality's potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a the Pyjama People.
Guest Article by Matthew Magee
A twenty year career as a Software Engineer started in...



















