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Magic Leap Could Call its First AR Headset ‘Magic Leap One’

Magic Leap, the secretive augmented reality startup, might be calling its first device 'Magic Leap One', as suggested by a recent trademark filing. The name was filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on November 6, 2017 alongside something...

‘Pokémon Go’ Studio Niantic Completes $200M Funding Round

Niantic, the developer behind Pokémon Go and the upcoming Harry Potter AR game, announced they've taken on $200 million in their Series B investment round. As reported by Tech Crunch, the Series B investment round was lead by Spark Capital in participation with Founders...
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‘Justice League’ VR Experience Comes to IMAX VR Centers Worldwide, Trailer Here

Continuing its diversification from pure, cinematic experiences, IMAX has announced that it's partnering with Warner Bros. to bring its forthcoming superhero movie franchises to virtual reality via multiplexes and it's dedicated VR centres. Update (11/26/17): First teased back earlier this...
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‘Ghost in the Shell: Arise’ PvP Shooter Comes to Bandai Namco’s VR Zone, Catch the Trailer...

Bandai Namco's Shinjuku-based VR Zone seems to have all the luck; there's Mario Kart in VR, Dragon Ball Z in VR, and now Ghost in the Shell is making its way to the giant VR arcade this December too. In a...

New ‘High Fidelity’ Partnership Makes it Easier to Host Your Own Virtual World

VR metaverse company High Fidelity recently released an update that allows users to easily deploy their own High Fidelity domains to the cloud. The project was created in collaboration with DigitalOcean, one of the largest hosting and cloud service providers in...

Oculus Creates Guide to Help VR Devs Make Highly Optimized Games

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. VR developers are obsessed with keeping their...

Indie VR MMO ‘OrbusVR’ to Launch in Early Access in December

OrbusVR, an upcoming indie VR MMO for SteamVR-compatible headsets, has seen several closed betas since it's successful Kickstarter back in March 2017, but starting December 15th the plucky quest-driven MMORPG will head into Early Access on Steam. Having garnered more than $34,000 from...
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Fan-Created ‘xkcd’ VR Tool Lets You Make Your Own xkcd-style Webcomics in VR

Created by Winnipeg-based indie studio The Campfire Union, xkcd VR lets you become a character from Randall Munroe's popular webcomic and create your very own stick figure-based stab at the comic's famously acerbic humor. Built as an entry at the Winnipeg Winter Game Jam and xkcd...

Best VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving

The turkey is in the oven, the cranberry sauce is in the can, and your VR setup is in the box ready to be shown off to the family at Thanksgiving. Since you'll be doing a fair bit of...

Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million

Citing sources close to the deal, TechCrunch reports that VR headset maker Vrvana has been acquired by Apple for $30 million. Vrvana is a little known VR headset maker that's been on the scene since 2014. The company was building...

Toyota’s New Experimental Humanoid Robot Uses HTC Vive for Remote Operation

Toyota recently revealed T-HR3, the company’s third-generation humanoid robot. Designed primarily as an experiment to explore new technologies to make robots more physically capable, T-HR3 demonstrates a new "remote maneuvering system" that not only mirrors a user's movements to...

Pixvana Raises $14M Series A Investment for Cloud-based VR Video Platform

Pixvana, a Seattle-based startup creating a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $14 million Series A funding round led by Vulcan Capital with participation from Raine Ventures, Microsoft Ventures, Cisco Investments and Hearst Ventures,...

Free UE4 Template Makes Creating More Realistic VR Hands a Snap

Czech developer iNFINITE Production has released UVRF - a free, cross-platform template for hand presence in VR. The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground...

‘Skyrim VR’ Review – The Other Side of the Immersion Equation

Skyrim VR is the first to launch in a series of VR titles from legendary game-maker Bethesda (with Doom VR and Fallout 4 VR soon to follow). The title is effectively a port of the now six year-old open-world...

‘Resident Evil 7: Biohazard’ Wins Golden Joystick’s Best VR Game of 2017

The 2017 Golden Joystick Awards winners are in, revealed last night at the 35th annual ceremony that celebrated the best in gaming this year. Taking the Golden Joystick for 'Best VR Game' was Capcom's horror-adventure Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017), a...
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