There are only three more episodes of Game of Thrones left before the saga is over, but Magic Leap is capitalizing on the series’ popularity while it still can. As we’ve reported in recent weeks, Magic Leap is giving demos of its augmented reality headset at select AT&T stores around the country using its “Dead...
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Technolust Dev Teases New Cyberpunk VR Game, Kickstarter Coming Soon
IRIS VR is best known for its 2016 Oculus launch title, Technolust. It was a cyberpunk VR game born out of a 2014 Kickstarter campaign. Five years on, the studio is returning to Kickstarter for Technolust’s spiritual successor. The team’s Blair Renaud this month shared the latest screenshots of Low-Fi. The game isn’t a direct...
Inside The Making Of Baobab’s Latest VR Short, Bonfire
Baobab Studios took the wraps off its next original virtual reality creation yesterday, debuting a trailer for the short VR film Bonfire. The full episode will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York this week. I was able to play the episode on the Oculus Rift headset, and I talked with its creators about how...
Epic Games Is Giving Away 500 Magic Leap One AR Devices To Developers
Epic Games is making its Epic MegaGrants fund a little more enticing. Today, the company said that it’s partnering with Magic Leap to award 500 of the Magic Leap One augmented reality glasses to developers working in AR (the Creator Edition normally retails for $2,295). The free AR headsets are in addition to the $100 million Epic is giving away as part of...
Why are people still giving Magic Leap money?
If Magic Leap fails, the skeptics will at least have to admire the AR startup’s keen ability to raise vast amounts of capital. The company announced today that it has locked down another $280 million in a deal with Japan’s largest mobile operator, Docomo. The deal brings the company’s ever-swelling total cash raised to $2.6...
UK Studios Are Working On AI To Make VR Characters More Believable
A consortium of UK-based VR developers are coming together to solve one of VR’s most important sticking points: believable virtual characters. VR brings virtual worlds to life. We can explore alien planets and become superheroes. But creating authentic, realistic virtual characters is another matter. Top studios can create models near indistinguishable from real life and...
5 Upcoming Oculus Exclusives That Could Carry Rift S
Facebook is launching a replacement for the Oculus Rift this Spring called Rift S. Every Oculus VR headset launch so far has been accompanied with a collection of new games. These five major Oculus exclusives launching this year could be Rift S’s big hitters. All five games are fully funded by Oculus Studios, Facebook’s VR content...
Oculus Quest Is Getting A Room Scale National Geographic Experience
The library for the upcoming Oculus Quest standalone headset is mostly games- but National Geographic Explore VR is an exception. The experience takes you on a “dramatic trip” through Antarctica with the ultimate goal of finding a lost penguin colony. Users will ride on a kayak through ice filled waters, then climb an ice cliff...
RosieReality, a Swiss startup using AR to get kids interested in robotics and programming, scores $2.2M seed
RosieReality, a startup out of Zürich developing consumer augmented reality experiences, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Redalpine. Other backers include Shasta Ventures, Atomico partners Mattias Ljungman and Siraj Khaliq (both of whom invested in a personal capacity) and Akatsuki Entertainment Fund. Founded in early 2018, RosieReality’s first AR experience is designed...
Magic Leap Deepens Funding from Telecom Industry with $280 Million from Japan’s NTT Docomo
Magic Leap’s business strategy for bringing augmented reality to the mainstream has become even clearer via its latest funding round. On Friday, the company announced that it has secured $280 million in funding from NTT Docomo, the largest wireless provider in Japan. Video: . “Docomo is proud to offer new value-added services never experienced before...