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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.

Apple’s Latest Acquisition Adds to ‘Secret VR Team’, Report Suggests

The latest news in the world of Apple is the latest acquisition of computer vision company Flyby, together with a recent comment from Apple's CEO seems to be indicating some significant virtual reality commitments from the company. The FT reported...

Nearly $700 Million Invested in AR/VR in 2015

According to a recent report by Digi-Capital, investors have injected some pretty big bucks into companies focusing on augmented and virtual reality lately. A total of $686 million in 2015 alone. The most interesting bit: they aren't counting Magic Leap. Digi-Capital,...

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...

Apple’s Latest VR Hire is Top Researcher Doug Bowman

Apple has reportedly hired a highly respected virtual reality researchers Doug Bowman, as it continues to trail behind other major company's in the virtual reality race Formerly a Science Professor at Virginia Tech, where he had been Director of Human-Interaction...

Crytek Wants to Build Your School a VR Development Lab

Crytek recently announced a new initiative that they're calling VR First. The goal is form so-called 'VR First Labs' within academic institutions to act as ready-made centers for a wave of future VR developers. Crytek is the company behind CryEngine, a...

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...

How to Bet on VR in 2016

When it comes to the virtual reality industry today, the way people are looking at VR is very natural, but also very wrong. While we all incessantly talk and freak out about experiences like flying over the grand canyon...

UnTethered eSports VR with Atomic VR

Michael Lenzi is the CEO & co-founder of Atomic VR, and they've spent the last couple of years experimenting with untethered VR experiences. They've created a backpack with custom hardware that can run a desktop GPU for up to...

Chandana Ekanayake on Unlearning Game Design for VR

Chandana Ekanayake is a game director & art director at Uber Entertainment where he's working on a VR adventure game for the PlayStation VR titled Wayward Sky. I caught up with Chandana at the Seattle VR Expo where he...

2016 VR Industry Report: Everything You Need to Know in One Place

Greenlight VR’s second industry report is co-authored with leading VR news site, Road to VR, and provides industry forecasts, analysis, and best practices. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, January 15, 2016 – Greenlight VR and Road to VR today unveil plans to...

Evangelizing VR Within an Indie Game Studio

Kayla Kinnunen is a game director at Roadhouse Interactive, which is an independent game development studio based out of Vancouver, BC. She talks about her process of evangelizing VR at her studio and slowly ramping up a VR team....

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...

Epic Games to Talk Making-of ‘Bullet Train’ Oculus Touch Demo at VRDC

Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine (not to mention a slew of best-selling titles), has worked closely with Oculus over the years to create VR tech demos. Their latest, Bullet Train, was the first to incorporate the Oculus...

Personalized Products Using Computer-Aided Manufacturing and VR Design

Greg Howes is the founder and CEO of the high-tech building company IDEAbuilder, and he's on a mission to disrupt the $8.5 trillion annual building industry using immersive technologies to bridge design & fabrication directly with consumer demand. He...

Virtuix Exploring Crowdfunded Equity Investment Under US ‘JOBS Act’

In accordance with newly eased investment regulations brought forth by the United States' JOBS Act, Virtuix is "testing the waters" for crowdfunded equity investment. The Virtuix Omni VR treadmill began as a Kickstarter success after raising more than $1 million...
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