We already know what HTC for Vive at CES: the next iteration of the VR headset. So, what is it showing? Apps. And lots of them. HTC revealed 23 of the more than 30 apps that the company is showing on the Vive in Las Vegas next week. We’ll see plenty of upcoming games like...
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Update: Gear VR Ranked In Amazon’s Top Three Best-Selling Wearables Over Holidays
Update: Amazon has removed the Gear listing from its press release, replaced by a range of FitBit products. We’ve reached out to the company to find out why. Original story: Amazon has revealed its best-selling products for the holiday season, and Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR has come out on top for our budding new...
‘Athena’ is a New Lighthouse Tracked VR Gun Controller from Ilium VR
Ilium VR are working on a new VR-centric gun peripheral which plans to use Valve’s SteamVR ‘Lighthouse’ tracking to bring realistic weapon control to virtual reality games. Shooting things in games is cool. Shooting things in VR can be infinitely cooler. Add in a dedicated controller that gives you the physical feel of a weapon and...
Accenture’s top 5 predictions for what will be hot at CES 2017
Roughly 177,000 people are expected to converge on Las Vegas next week for the Consumer Electronics Show. CES 2017 will have around 2 million square feet of exhibit space, and I’ll be there checking out the event with VentureBeat writers Ken Leung and John Brandon. We’ll all be trying to figure out what the big...
Watch ‘Escape Code,’ A Neon-Soaked 360-Film About Our Cyberpunk Future
Over the years there have been a lot of pieces of entertainment content, whether it be the mesmerizing tunes of Daft Punk, the dystopian world of Blade Runner, or the retro-futuristic landscapes of countless video games, that all seem to grow out of this idea of an eye-catching future that is still faced with horrible...
VR Virtuoso Tipatat Chennavasin Reveals How Tilt Brush Got Its Name
Tipatat Chennavasin is one of virtual realities most notable emerging personalities. Tipatat frequents most VR-related events and his unique first name is well known to early VR enthusiasts. He is also a co-founder and general partner for the Venture Reality Fund — an early stage investment firm for VR startups. If that weren’t enough, Chennavasin is also a...
Gear VR Ranked In Amazon’s Top Three Best-Selling Wearables Over Holidays
Amazon has revealed its best-selling products for the holiday season, and Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR has come out on top for our budding new industry. Earlier this week the online retailing giant revealed the top three products sold in the different categories featured on its site. Gear VR makes it in as the third...
VR in 2016: HTC’s $799 Vive Brings Belief To VR Skeptics
The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it...
Why CES 2017 Will Set the Stage for the Next Year of VR
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has served as a good way-point for VR’s progress over the years. With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and low-lights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues...
Osterhout Design Group Enables Augmented Reality
An article on Nanalyze discusses Osterhout Design Group’s (ODG) recent investment in Augmented Reality. Following last year’s release of their R-7 AR headset, this month they closed a Series A funding round of $58 million. ODG’s R-7 features a HD 3D screen and has a lighter design than previous versions; it also provides sufficient power...