Because of its ability to place digital content into the real world, augmented reality lends itself well to artists and creatives. Two new mobile apps, one from Google and another from an indie developer with ties to Magic Leap, invert the creative conceit by taking the real world and morphing it via augmented reality. First...
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VR Cover To Launch Washable Cotton And Foam Face Pad Inserts For Oculus Quest
VR Cover is one of the leading headset accessory companies and produce some of the highest-quality face pads, covers, and other inserts to improve comfort and hygiene. With the Oculus Quest set to launch next week on May 21, they’re of course gearing up with a new line of products. As of now they’ve got...
AUO Developed 3456×3456 HDR LCD Panels For VR Headsets
Taiwanese display panel manufacturer AU Optronics is showing a new 3456×3456 LCD panel for VR at Display Week this week. 3.5K Per Eye HDR The panel is an LCD, but supports HDR through the use of 2304 individually controlled LED backlight elements rather than one global backlight. This is called ‘local dimming’, and is used...
Watch This Gameplay Teaser For Sword Fighting VR Game Until You Fall
Schell Games (creators of the highly successful I Expect You To Die) revealed a brand new VR action game earlier this year called Until You Fall. It’s a very different type of game as they have traded the slow-paced and comical puzzle-filled rooms of their spy adventure for fast-paced first-person sword-based combat. We still don’t...
Superhot, Beat Saber, And Moss Won’t Support Oculus Quest Cross-Buy
The developers behind three of VR’s most popular titles coming to Facebook’s Oculus Quest standalone VR system are saying they won’t support cross-buy between versions of their games sold through the Oculus Store. Some other developers, like Fast Travel Games, are supporting the feature on Facebook’s Oculus Store which will award owners of both Oculus...
AR display-maker DigiLens lands $50 million from Samsung, Niantic
The broader AR market is made up of a lot of hype and excitement, but fundamentally it’s all based around the promise that waveguide displays can continue to stay wafer-thin while getting better and cheaper. Waveguide-maker DigiLens is aiming to stay aggressive in lowering the costs of the expensive component. It has just closed a...
The Statue of Liberty gets an AR app to celebrate its new museum
This week, the new $100 million Statue of Liberty Museum opens in the shadow of one of America’s most iconic landmarks. The 26,000-square-foot space offers insights into the statue’s storied history, along with context for the majority of visitors who ultimately can’t make it inside the structure. For those who don’t make it to Liberty...
Tinker Pilot Is A Customizable Spaceship Sim Built From The Ground Up For VR
Tinker Pilot is a recently announced space sim built from the ground up for virtual reality. It’s being built by four developers in Barcelona. The core interaction system of Tinker Pilot is called TinkerCore. It supports a wide range of input devices as well as immersive peripherals such as motion rigs and USB fans. TinkerCore...
Space Junkies Move Support, Smooth Turning Arrives Today
Good news for Space Junkies fans playing on PSVR; two of your most requested features arrive today. PlayStation Move support has finally been added into the zero gravity shooter. Previously the game only supported DualShock 4 on PSVR. We thought the implementation was pretty good but others disagreed, especially when getting into cross-play matches with...
VR Sci-Fi Shooter Space Ops Gets New Trailer, Release Date
It was only announced a few weeks ago but Fibrum and DevCube Studio’s next VR shooter, Space Ops VR, is nearly here. As such, our best look at the game yet just arrived. The first trailer for Space Ops just landed. You’d be forgiven for mistaking this for other sci-fi VR shooters like Farpoint, Evasion,...