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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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First Look: Unreal Engine Will Soon Let You Build VR inside VR

Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here's what it looks like. The VR renaissance has inspired...
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Microsoft Teases the Future of the Super Bowl with HoloLens

Microsoft has splashed out on a promotional video designed to demonstrate its vision of a Super Bowl future, augmented by its untethered, augmented reality headset HoloLens, demonstrating how it could used in the home to enhance the football viewing experience. Microsoft's HoloLens...

Magic Leap Raises $793.5 Million Series C Investment to Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech

Magic Leap today announced the closure of a massive $793.5 million Series C investment led by Alibaba. The company has kept their supposedly revolutionary AR tech under wraps to the public, but seem to have no trouble convincing investors...

Sneak Peek at The VOID’s Latest Tech to Feature at TED 2016

The VOID, the virtual reality theme park experience, has caused quite a stir in the industry over the last 12 months. Now, the company are taking their free-roaming brand of mixed reality entertainment to TED2016 and Road to VR's...

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....
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