Viveport Infinity, an updated version of HTC’s VR subscription service, launches today. It’s similar to the original Viveport except, instead of having a limited number of downloads a month, you can pick up any of the 668 titles available whenever you want and play them for as long as you like. For $12.99 a month,...
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Edgybees’s new developer platform brings situational awareness to live video feeds
San Diego-based Edgybees today announced the launch of Argus, its API-based developer platform that makes it easy to add augmented reality features to live video feeds. The service has long used this capability to run its own drone platform for first responders and enterprise customers, which allows its users to tag and track objects and...
Microsoft Remote Assist Now Available for Android in Preview
Just weeks after revealing plans to port one of its most vital augmented reality products from HoloLens to the smartphone world, Microsoft has finally opened the mobile software floodgates to the public. Now, if you have an ARCore-compatible smartphone, you can try out Microsoft’s Android version of its Dynamics 365 Remote Assist app for HoloLens....
Hands-On: Iron Man VR Really Nails The Sensation Of Flight
Iron Man VR was a huge surprise announcement last week when it was first debuted during the PlayStation State of Play stream. The game is in development by Camouflaj (Republique VR) and is slated for release exclusively on PSVR later this year. In it you play as Tony Stark himself in an original story created...
Hands-On: Concrete Genie Surrounds You With Art
The “Wow Moment” is the elusive something every fan of VR has been chasing like a drug. Whether it is looking at a mountain vista in Tuscany, watching a dinosaur approach and then walk above you, or sitting down on a carpet for a hedgehog’s birthday party. The VR sequence that is coming with PlayStation...
Valve Index VR Headset Pre-Orders Happen May 1, Ships In June
Well this is turning out to be quite a weird April Fools’ Day. First we saw the apparently unintentional leak of Valve Index info via a developer video. Now it appears Valve itself may have given us an early look at the headset. A placeholder Steam page for the new headset went live today. It’s...
Gearbox Is Making A Penn and Teller VR Game
Here’s one of PAX East’s more unexpected VR reveals; Borderlands dev Gearbox is making a Penn and Teller VR game. No, this isn’t an April Fools. Penn and Teller VR: Frankly Unfair, Unkind, Unnecessary & Underhanded was quietly confirmed in a press release this weekend. Very little is known about the game other than that...
Driveclub VR Is Being Pulled From The PlayStation Store Soon
One of PSVR’s premiere racing games will no longer be available to buy digitally soon. The Sony-published Driveclub VR will be pulled from the PlayStation Store on August 31st. The game is a VR adaptation of Evolution Studios’ Driveclub, which is also being pulled from the store on that day along with Driveclub Bikes. As...
Hands-On: The Whimsy World of Ghost Giant Will Grab You
How game developers approach the graphical limitations of virtual reality can be interesting. The GPU demands of VR necessitates the need to turn away from photo realism to another artistic choice. When you begin Zoink Games’s title Ghost Giant, you find yourself in a carefully crafted world of cardboard and paper nailed together into a...
Valve Index VR Headset Listed On Steam, Apparent June 15 Ship Date
Well this is turning out to be quite a weird April Fool’s day. First we saw the apparently unintentional leak of Valve Index info via a developer video. Now it appears Valve itself may have given us an early look at the headset. What looks like a placeholder Steam page for the new headset went...