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.
Disney Leads $65 Million Investment in Jaunt’s VR Camera & Content Business
Jaunt, the company who has blazed an early trail in the capture and distribution of cinematic 360 videos, has announced yet another injection of funds, this a $65M round lead by entertainment giant Disney.
The VR industry and all it's...
Exploring the Hidden Military VR of the Vis-Sim Industry
In this, the latest in the semi-regular feature, Kevin Williams explores the wider aspect of the re-emergence of virtual reality development. In this article, he explores a resilient segment of the VR industry, Visuals and Simulations.
Kevin Williams has an extensive...
AltspaceVR Launches New SDK to Promote Social VR Application Development
AltspaceVR have had a hell of a week. As part of their ongoing 'Social Week' the company have made some big announcements, Gear VR support and cross platform capabilities with the addition of HTC Vive support. Now, the company...
Rothenberg Ventures Invests $1 Million Across 10 New VR Startups in ‘River’ Program
San Francisco based VC firm Rothenberg Ventures has announced the second class of their 'River' program, which includes $1 million of investment capital across 10 new VR startups. With this second class the firm has also expanded the scope of...
‘Deus Ex’ Creator Warren Spector Has U-Turned on VR, “I’ve started to come around”
One of the most respected game developers in the business, Warren Spector, has been a fairly vocal critic of virtual reality's recent resurgence of late. But in a recent interview, the Deus Ex creator says he's changed his mind...
Taking the Long-view: The VR Future Starts in 2016
In the second of a new regular series of reports, Noah Nelson looks at virtual reality's rocky road ahead as the VR industry grapples with the unenviable task of convincing a cynical world, beyond the enthusiasts, that virtual reality is here, it's...
Canon Reveal 2.5k Per Eye, 120 Degree FOV ‘VR Viewer’
Here's a name you may not expect to be entering the immersive wearable market, Canon. They just demonstrated a virtual reality viewer (this is not a traditional headset) at Canon Expo in New York, and it packs some interesting...
Project ‘impacto’ is Designed to Let People Really Feel Virtual Reality
The lab of Human Computer Interaction at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute has developed impacto, a wearable, wireless device designed “to render the haptic sensation of hitting and being hit in virtual reality.”
Led by Professor Patrick Baudisch, the lab has...
One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect
Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...
Unity Awards 2015 VR Finalists Announced, Vote for Your Favourite
Unity, the leading 3D game engine synonymous with the early days of Oculus Rift software, is due to hold its annual conference 'Unite' in Boston on September 22nd. As part of the event, the company will honour the best...
Oculus CTO John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Connect
John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...
Oculus Story Studio Talks Tooling, Using “out-of-the-box tools as much as possible”
Oculus Story Studio, the company's in-house content creation studio that has produced a number of highly polished experiences, recently released a surprising 'tell all' blog post detailing just what sort of tools the team of VR content creators use.
Story Studio has the funds, and...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...
Littlstar Joins Disney Accelerator, Apps Coming Soon to Rift, Morpheus, and Vive
Disney has added Littlestar, the "VR Cinema Network," to its accelerator program. Joining the media conglomerate’s tech accelerator will give the startup access to Disney’s considerable resources and a chance to garner more investment from industry players down the...
AR Glasses Company CastAR Lands $15 Million Investment Led by Android Co-founder’s Firm
CastAR (formerly Technical Illusions) today announced a $15 million Series A fundraising round to continue development of their augmented reality glasses of the same name. The company previously raised just over $1 million on Kickstarter in late 2013.
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