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.
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...
4 Steps to Start Experimenting with WebVR in 10 Minutes
WebVR is not a new thing — people have been talking about using WebGL to render interactive 3D graphics in the browser for over half a decade, in various different implementations. What is new, however, is the availability of open source libraries...
Oculus Releases PC SDK 0.8 with “Improved Support for Windows 10”
As the company drives toward releasing SDK 1.0 alongside the consumer Oculus Rift they've now released SDK 0.8 with "Improved Support for Windows 10."
Until SDK 0.7, the Oculus Rift didn't officially support Windows 10. With SDK 0.8, the company...
VR Creation App ‘MakeVR’ to be “Spun Out” from Sixense, Now Hardware Agnostic
Steve Hansted from Sixense took to the stage at VR Launchpad in Mountain View, CA today to announce that the virtual reality 3D modelling application MakeVR, often used alongside the company's STEM motion controllers, is being "spun out" into a...
Tactical Haptics to Debut Vive ‘Reactive Grip’ Prototype at VR Launchpad
Tactical Haptics, the company behind the unique tactile feedback technology 'Reactive Grip', will show their latest HTC Vive compatible prototype for the first time at VR Launchpad, the the VR startup showcase event, kicking off tomorrow at the Computer History Museum...
NVIDIA to Show New VR-ready Laptop at VR Launchpad
VR Startup showcase VR Launchpad is now less than a day away and, in addition to a lively collection of hand-picked virtual reality pioneers and entrepreneurs in attendance, Nvidia will be showing off its latest, cutting-edge VR-ready laptop at the...
24 VR Startup Pitches, Launch Partner Presentations, Vive Demos and More, Tomorrow at VR Launchpad
VR Launchpad, the VR startup showcase, is upon us. Tomorrow the halls of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA will be filled with a diverse group of hand-picked VR startups alongside investors, media, and VR influencers. And it's...
Aashna Mago on Getting More Women into VR
Aashna Mago talks about the first Women in VR event in San Francisco that she helped organize on September 20th, 2015. There were over 200 people who attended the event that featured 13 women luminaries who are working in virtual reality,...
Building A Better Mousetrap: A “Landmark” Dream Of The Ultimate Content Platform
Noah Nelson is back with another instalment of Immersion Point and this week digs into Landmark Entertainment's recent unveiling of their new 'Pavilion of Me' project, an immersive content platform designed to be the first step on the road...
Greenlight VR to Give ‘State of the VR Industry’ Presentation at VR Launchpad
Virtual reality market research firm Greenlight VR will share their latest data-driven insights into the consumer VR industry in a special presentation at VR Launchpad on October 20th.
Howie Leibach, Sr. Research Analyst at Greenlight VR, will take to the...
‘Voxelus’ Aims to Let Everyone to Build Their Own VR Content
With the huge success of Minecraft, a generation of gamers have grown up expecting to build and create in, as well as 'merely' play their games. Voxelus aims to tap into that creative spark with it's new Voxelus Creator...
Playtesting VR Experiences with Fish Bowl VR
Geoff Skow is a co-founder of Fish Bowl VR, which has over 200 early adopter, VR enthusiasts available to do user testing for VR experiences. VR developers can get a monthly subscription to get on-demand, user testing with let's...
New Cinematic VR and Creation Tools Being Prototyped in Unity
Timoni West is a principle designer for Unity Labs, and she's working on creating professional tools for creating VR scenes in Unity while being in VR. These tools are still in the prototype phase of development, but it's something...
HTC Vive ‘City Destruction’ VR Prototype Lets You Demolish Virtual Worlds
In all the talk over presence and immersion associated with virtual reality games, we mustn't lose sight of why we play games in the first place, for fun! When games come along that manage to fuse both, we get...
Jesse Schell on the VR Design Principles of ‘I Expect You to Die’
Jesse Schell has been involved in virtual reality for over 20 years, and he's also the author of the popular The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. He was able to combine his background in VR and...
