Join us Wednesday, September 16th, at 10:00 am PDT for a live stream of the Facebook Connect 2020 conference. We will be following and highlighting the latest Facebook developments in VR, AR, and related technologies. We’ve …
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Oculus Quest hand tracking has finally arrived as promised at OC6, and we’re delighted. We had the opportunity to demo this breakthrough feature at the conference this fall. While it’s not perfect, it’s the future of …
Read more Oculus Quest Hand Tracking – A Major Breakthrough for VR
There are some good and not so good Black Friday VR deals for VR headsets this year. Don’t expect to find the popular Oculus Quest at huge savings. You’re going to pay full price with a …
Read more Best Black Friday VR Deals – Virtual Reality at a Discount
A newly invented skin patch could bring virtual touch to our VR experiences. Up to now, virtual reality has mostly been confined to visual and audio sensations. Adding haptics through virtual touch would open new opportunities …
Let’s be honest: we need a simple VR headset. Something like the Oculus Quest, but a device that anyone can pick up and use without assistance. For all the talk about the disruptive qualities of virtual …
Sandbox VR is one of the latest players on the location-based VR scene. And we get the idea behind it – it’s easy to grasp when you’re living in cramped spaces in New York City. But …
Read more Sandbox VR Raises Millions from A-List Celebs but can it Succeed?
So much for Google’s Daydream VR platform. Initially a promising development in mobile VR, Google has officially killed it off. The new Pixel 4 phones won’t support it, they’ve stopped selling Daydream View headsets, and they …
Ready for an ultrathin layer of wearable skin? It may be precisely what we need for haptic feedback in our virtual experiences. There’s several haptic solutions coming to the market, from full-body suits to HMD attachments that …
We’ll be out in California next week for the Oculus Connect 6 conference on September 25-26. With the speculation on Facebook’s AR initiatives and the next steps for the Quest standalone HMD, it promises to be …
Scratch another immersive technology development off the list. After high hopes and promises of a ubiquitous mobile VR platform, Google Daydream is essentially over. The HMD is still available on the Google Store, but you have …
The Oculus Quest is here, promising to be the next generation of VR. We finally get a mass-market headset that’s relatively low-cost, has 6DOF functionality and doesn’t need to be tethered to an expensive computer. Despite …
Here’s the lineup for Tribeca Immersive, the VR Program at Tribeca Film Festival this spring. The Festival is a favorite of ours since we get to experience cutting-edge projects in our own backyard. It’s convenient when …
Read more An Expanding VR Program at Tribeca Film Festival 2019
Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest is a perfect match for virtual reality. A free-form VR painting and design tool on a standalone HMD with six degrees of freedom. Last year, Facebook hyped the concept of …
Read more A Perfect Match – Google Tilt Brush on Oculus Quest
We’ve written a lot on the need for better haptic feedback in VR. The Feelreal mask prototype has been around for a while but it is finally making its debut on Kickstarter on April 9th. As …
It’s been a long wait with endless rumors, but the new Valve VR headset is finally coming. 2019 is turning out to be the year of new HMDs, and we’re not close to halfway through. HP’s …
You might have overlooked the new HP Reverb VR headset last week with all the HMDs at GDC 2019, but the company just set a new standard in Windows Mixed Reality platform headsets. As Sol Rogers …
We’re only on day two, but it’s time to highlight the VR and AR news at GDC 2019. Here’s a quick summary of the announcements which have focused on both hardware and gaming platforms. Keep in …
In a blow to VR filmmaking, Google is closing their VR studio, “Spotlight Stories.” The popular immersive film studio shuttered with an announcement in Variety: Google Spotlight Stories is closing its doors after over six years …
For all the progress in virtual reality, realistic avatars and social VR remain a fundamental challenge. It comes as no surprise that, Facebook’s lifelike avatars have made the most progress in this area. The social network …
Read more Remarkable Developments in Facebook’s Lifelike Avatars
The latest Walmart VR experience is not designed to help their employees cope with Black Friday crowds, but sell products. And it’s a sign that the future of retail lays in immersive experiences. Walmart has teamed …
Read more Walmart’s New VR Experience – Selling Merchandise in a Parking Lot
After a string of dismal predictions and much hand-wringing last year, it turns out that VR grew by 30% in 2018. The latest report by market analyst Superdata suggests that things aren’t as bad as many …
If you thought Social VR was languishing in the shadows, take a look at Rec Room VR. They announced this week that the app is installed on over one million headsets. And in a blog post, …
As CES 2019 comes to a close, we take a look at TPCAST’s wireless solution for VR headsets. The Chinese company originally made HMDs such as the HTC Vive wireless. Their second generation product will stream VR …
Read more TPCAST: a wireless solution for VR headsets at CES 2019
A barrage of HTC Vive VR announcements kicked off the press briefings at CES 2019. We were expecting a new VR headset, but HTC gave us two headsets, a VR browser, a “Netflix for VR” subscription service, …
It may be the dead of winter but it’s not too early to think about next summer’s SIGGRAPH 2019 – Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality showcase. Of course, SIGGRAPH is much more than a venue for …
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Shareable VR? We’ve been waiting for something like Viewr to come along. It’s designed to solve the isolation that we have in our current VR experiences. You know how it is. One person goes through an immersive …
Virtual Reality is already transforming healthcare, education, and corporate training. But there are other areas such as eSports where immersive technologies could profoundly impact human behavior. A new British Cycling VR event will lead to a national …
Read more New VR event for British Cycling changes the game for eSports
It’s that time of the year again in the States, and you can watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade in VR and AR. As with last year’s parade, there will be 360° cameras along the route. If …
We’re definitely fans of location-based VR, the large-scale facilities that The Void and a few other companies are building. They’re the best VR experiences available to the public. They’re interactive, deeply immersive, and free-roaming with laptops …
The arrival of the new Vive Focus standalone headset makes one thing clear – 2019 will be the year we go cable-free with our VR headsets. Facebook’s Oculus Quest will be out in the (probably late) spring …
Read more New Vive Focus standalone headset launches worldwide