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Viveport Infinity Adds Support For Index And Rift S, Offers Freebies
With all the big news from Facebook and Valve yesterday, HTC doesn’t want to go unnoticed. To that end, it’s offering freebies for people that pick up the new Oculus Rift S and Valve Index headsets. Over the course of June, anyone that signs into HTC’s Viveport platform with either of these two headsets (or...
Oculus Quest Enterprise Edition Is $999, Needs $180/Year Subscription After First Year
At F8 2019 this week Facebook announced an enterprise edition of the Oculus Quest 6DoF standalone headset. It’s priced at $999 and has 128GB of storage, like the $499 consumer model. It will launch this fall. The first year of software services is free, but after that companies must pay $180 per year for access....
Boneworks Gameplay ‘The Same’ With Oculus Touch Controllers As Valve Index Controllers
Boneworks is a great demonstration of the Valve Index Controllers, but it also has full support for the Oculus Touch controllers used on Rift and Rift S. On Twitter today Stress Level Zero developer Brandon Laatsch showed off a first person view of Boneworks with Touch: Boneworks is a detailed sandbox physics shooter developed by...
Nine lessons on how Niantic reached a $4B valuation
We’ve captured much of Niantic’s ongoing story in the first three parts of our EC-1, from its beginnings as an “entrepreneurial lab” within Google, to its spin-out as an independent company and the launch of Pokémon GO, to its ongoing focus on becoming a platform for others to build augmented reality products upon. The Niantic...
Facebook Outlines Social Safety Tools, Updates To Come At Oculus Connect
Today during the Day 2 Keynote at the 2019 F8 Developer Conference in San Jose, CA, Facebook discussed plans for upcoming social safety features in VR and teased Oculus Connect 6. During the first part of the VR segment of today’s keynote, Lade Obamehinti from the AR/VR team at Facebook talked about building AI with inclusivity...
Valve Index Pre-Orders Now Available: $499 Headset, $999 Bundle
Update: Shortly after this was posted, it looks like pre-orders may be temporarily sold out with just a waiting list at this time. Original: Starting today you can pre-order a Valve Index VR headset. Headsets will reportedly start shipping on June 28th. The headset was formally unveiled yesterday with all of its specs detailed and...
Facebook Shows Off High Quality Markerless Body Tracking From ‘A Single Sensor’
At Day 2 of F8 2019 today Facebook showed off a demo of body tracking with no markers or worn trackers. The tracking is able to track down to the muscle activation level, not just skeletal, giving a more detailed output: This is just a research project, not a product, but the results look impressive....
Oculus Rift S Comes Bundled With VR Art Apps Quill And Medium
Now that the curtain is pulled back on the Oculus Rift S fully, we’re starting to get more details about the upcoming PC VR headset. We know that the Oculus Rift S is available for pre-order already (but they’re selling out pretty fast) and we know it releases on May 21, along with the Oculus...
Vuzix Blade Adds Google Assistant Beta to Extend Its Voice Assistant Capabilities
Smartglasses maker Vuzix made a big splash at CES 2018 with the inclusion of Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant among the AR superpowers of its consumer-centric Blade smartglasses. Now, it’s time to tell Alexa to make room, as Vuzix is bringing Google Assistant support to Blade. The app is now available via the Vuzix App Store....