I’ll be honest, I’m still pretty fond of Nintendo Labo VR. Look, I know that on a fundamentally technological scale, the thing is the pits. The screen is blurry, the tracking is primitive and the input is shoddy at best. But spending three hours arguing with my partner as we painstakingly folded cardboard and then...
Following in the steps of Snapchat, Instagram, and YouCam, another popular photo app has gotten into the virtual try-on augmented reality game. On Thursday, BoxyCharm, a cosmetics subscription service, unveiled a partnership with app developer Lightricks that will bring cosmetics AR filters to Facetune2, a “selfie editing” app that ranks in the top 10 of...
Harry Potter fans can now try on the famous sorting hat in AR through the Wizarding World app. Then watch on in fanboy splendor as the hat determines which Hogwarts house they belong in. The experience is part of the new Wizarding World app. It’s a companion app for the new site of the same...
A few weeks ago HTC finally revealed the release date and price for the HTC Vive Cosmos: October 3rd for $699. We tried it out briefly, but now after spending about a week with a review unit we’ve got our full and finalized review. To be perfectly honest the Vive Cosmos is in a difficult...
Today Skydance Interactive and Skybound Entertainment have announced The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is coming out on January 23, 2020 (instead of 2019 like originally planned) and we’ve already gone hands-on with the zombie-slaughtering adventure. The Walking Dead, with both the comics and the AMC show, is perhaps the most recognizable post-apocalyptic zombie franchise...
Oculus headsets now make up more than 50% of VR headsets on Steam, according to the September Hardware Survey. The Facebook-owned brand’s total has hovered just below 50% for around two years now. They have only ever crossed this landmark twice in the past- before the launch of the original HTC Vive in early 2016,...
Now that iOS 13 is in the wild, developers are starting to show off the magical augmented reality powers ARKit 3 can deliver. One shining example comes via the new Meisai AR Filter app, developed by Japan’s Kitasenju Design, which is capable of producing visual illusions that would make Doctor Strange retire from sorcery. Don’t...
Well, it’s been a week since Oculus Connect 6 and by this point you’ve probably seen all the major pieces of news and all of the talks that are available online. However, in the whirlwind of headlines last week, you might have missed some of our meatier pieces that gave a deeper look at the...
Later this month HTC is planning to ship a “Cosmos Compatibility Pack” for $50 with a battery that’ll supply enough power to turn the new Vive Cosmos into an untethered headset. HTC sells the Vive Wireless Adapter for around $300 that works with some desktop PCs featuring an open PCIe slot which turns the earlier...
A firmware update to the Oculus Quest rolling out today adds stereo passthrough support, 3DoF mode, and support for some Oculus Go apps. Additionally, the new version allows future updates to be manually forced from the Quest’s settings inside VR. Oculus Quest is the first standalone room scale VR headset with dual 6dof hand controllers...
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