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Why I Think AR Glasses Are the Inevitable Future of the Smartphone
I was asked recently for my thoughts on Meta's Orion AR glasses, specifically whether or not such glasses stand a chance of becoming as big as (or replacing) the smartphones in the future.
I was asked for my thoughts recently...
Vision Pro Durability Tests Show Glass Has Great Shatter Resistance, But Scratches Easily
Vision Pro is in the wild, which means we get to see just how durable Apple's first mixed reality headset is. The good news: the $3,500 device is pretty drop resistant, although if it does take a tumble, don't expect...
HTC Just Earmarked $100 Million to Invest in VR Content, Applications Open Today
Looking to get your VR project off the ground? HTC might be able to help. The company has just announced a $100 million fund attached to the 'Vive X' accelerator program.
Announced at an HTC conference today in Beijing, Vive X...
Quest Devs Can Now Publish Apps That Use the Headset’s Cameras to Scan the World
While Meta's Quest has always relied heavily on cameras for tracking location of the headset, controllers, and the world around the user, developers haven't had the same privileged access to the headset's cameras. Earlier this year Meta gave developers...
‘The Invisible Hours’ Studio Announces ‘Groundhog Day VR’, Coming Later This Year
Groundhog Day (1993), the iconic '90s film starring Bill Murray, is getting its very own full-length VR game soon—well, sort of. Dubbed Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son, you'll be able to jump back into the world of Punxsutawney,...
Futuremark Explains Why VR Benchmarking is About More Than Just Numbers
Futuremark have now released the full version of their long awaited, dedicated virtual reality benchmark, VRMark. And, after months of research and development, the company has found itself having to redefine its own views on how the difficult subject...
HTC Vive World Tour Makes 6 Stops in August, Your Chance to Try ‘Room Scale’ SteamVR
Want to step inside the HTC Vive and SteamVR? HTC continues their 'Vive World Tour', hauling the headset around the US and beyond to give folks a chance to try out the new headset. The tour makes five stops...
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...
Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity
Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically.
It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...
‘Robo Recall’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from Epic Games
After years of making some of the most impressive VR tech demos of their time, Epic's Robo Recall is not only the company's first VR game proper, but a culmination of what the company has learned about VR game...
Meta and LG Confirm Partnership to “Accelerate XR Business” in Wake of Vision Pro Launch
LG announced a collaboration with Meta focused on strengthening the XR business of both companies.
Following the release of Vision Pro, it has become apparent that Apple has a serious game plan for its XR line of devices. Now that...
The Best PlayStation VR Deal for Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2018
With the holiday shopping season upon us, we're tracking the best PSVR Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2018 deals. This year PlayStation VR is seeing its best deal yet.
Updated for Cyber Monday
November 26rd, 2018 – 3:32PM ET
PSVR Price Baseline
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Beautiful Space Shooter ‘Everspace’ Beta Begins Today, New Gameplay Trailer
We've been keeping an eye on Everspace, the new VR-enabled space combat shooter from Rockfish, for a while now and it looks as if the company are finally ready to unleash the title on the world as the beta...
Unreal Engine to Add NVIDIA Gameworks VR Support, Including VR SLI
Today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, Epic Games, developers of Unreal Engine, announced that they're partnering with NVIDIA to integrate their Gameworks VR featureset into UE4. VR SLI and Multi-res shading will be availabl in forthcoming updates.
NVIDIA's...
Why ‘Sightline: The Chair’ on the DK2 is My New VR Reference Demo
Virtual Reality is still so fresh, young and new that it's likely those VR Enthusiasts around since the inception of the Oculus Rift still have only a handful of moments that they can point to that convinced them virtual...



















