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The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.

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.
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Dual Wield Guns and Magic in this Cool Oculus Touch Game Prototype

Guns are cool. Magic is cool. Motion controls are cool. Combine all three with virtual reality and you have a prototype experience that looks, well, really cool! Developers have now had access to retail quality, VR-focused motion controllers via the...
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Microsoft Launch HoloLens ‘Commercial Suite’, Declares it “Ready for Business”

Microsoft have just launched a new HoloLens 'Commercial Suite' which packages the augmented reality visor as ready for business with numerous new features and benefits for business buyers. Microsoft's augmented reality visor HoloLens has been available to developers for some...

‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ Promises UK’s “largest VR-only Game Jam ever”

Fellow virtual reality news outlet VRFocus has launched 'Virtual Reality Challenge' and has hopes for it to become the largest hackathon of its kind in the UK dedicated to virtual reality content. Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace...

NextVR Raises $80 Million with an Eye on International Expansion

NextVR, a firm specializing in live VR streaming, has today announced an $80 million Series B investment with which the company aims to expand international operations. "The Series B investment positions NextVR to accelerate development of its virtual reality platform...

‘TheWaveVR’ Raises $2.5 Million Seed Investment for Social VR Music Platform

TheWaveVR is a social VR music platform which allows DJs to mix tracks live in VR in front of a virtual audience which can connect to experience the performance from around the world. The company announced today that it's raised...

‘Adventure Time’ Creator Pendleton Ward on Stretching the Boundaries of Identity in VR

Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward has been fascinated by the idea of virtual reality since he first read Snow Crash as a teenager. He backed the Oculus Kickstarter, and has been exploring many of the early VR prototypes over...

HTC’s $100 Million ‘Vive X’ VR Accelerator Announces First 33 Investments

Today at the China International Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference (ChinaJoy 2016), HTC announced the first batch of companies to take part in their recently announced Vive X Accelerator program. The cohort of 33 VR startups, coming from across the industry, will see...

Oculus CTO Shares VR Dev Tip: ‘The Formula for Avoiding Aliasing’

Oculus CTO John Carmack is an OG of the game development world has demonstrated a deep understanding of the ins and outs of computer rendering. In a detailed technical post published on Facebook, he shares a useful tips with...

Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”

Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...

Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality

With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today's VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for...

What ‘Pokémon Go’ Could Be Like if it Was Really Augmented Reality

Pokémon Go, the latest "AR" infused sequel to the classic Nintendo franchise is sweeping the world on mobile phone platforms. But what would it look like running on a dedicated augmented reality headset? Developer CapitolaVR decided to find out by...

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...

Snapchat Hires Hollywood Effects Artist as “Augmented Reality Designer”

Social media company Snapchat have just appointed a Hollywood effects artist Raffael Dickreuter who joined in June as a "Concept and Augmented Reality Designer." Snapchat is a rising giant in social media platforms, and it seems the company is serious about keeping...

Apple Granted Patent for High Field of View AR Display

Apple has just been granted another AR/VR related technology patent, to add to their growing list. In this case it's a transparent, high field of view display which looks to be aimed at the augmented reality sector and, alongside other...

Immersive Computing Platform ‘Envelop VR’ Begins Closed Beta Program

Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...
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