Livestreaming is a big part of the gaming community these days. Millions of people watch gamers from around the world play games on Twitch, Facebook, YouTube, Mixer, and more every single day. While the most popular games are non-VR shooters and MOBAs, there is a growing focus on VR gaming on these platforms as well....
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Docomo creates first 5G-ready streaming system for 8K stereoscopic VR
Expect high-definition live events to stream to VR headsets in the near future, thanks to a Japanese carrier’s new 3D 8K streaming platform.Read More Source: Docomo creates first 5G-ready streaming system for 8K stereoscopic VR
Madefire debuts 3D motion comics on the Magic Leap One AR headset
Madefire has launched “motion comics,” or digital comics in a 3D space, on the Magic Leap One Creator Edition augmented reality glasses.Read More Source: Madefire debuts 3D motion comics on the Magic Leap One AR headset
Community Download: What Do You Want From The Vive Cosmos?
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. It’s been a while once again since we’ve had a Community Download, but the column is far from dead. For this week’s discussion I...
VR Game Releases For February 2019
Every month we aim to round up each and every VR game release for you in one single place — this is February’s list. Don’t worry — we’ll continue highlighting the best ones at the end of each week too. With the door closed on January and the first month of 2019, we’ve just been through a...
Shazam Pours a Tall Glass of Augmented Reality Marketing for Shackleton Whisky
Apple’s in-house music identification app Shazam has been quiet on the augmented reality front since officially joining Cupertino’s finest last year, but a new promotion gives AR enthusiasts an occasion to raise a toast. Last week, Shackleton Whisky launched an augmented reality experience via Shazam’s app for iOS and Android. After scanning specially marked Shackleton...
Classic Win32 Apps Now Run In Windows Mixed Reality
.A new Windows Insider build adds the ability to launch classic Win32 desktop applications in Windows Mixed Reality. Preview build 18329 adds “the ability to launch Desktop (Win32) applications (such as Spotify, Paint.NET, and Visual Studio Code) in Windows Mixed Reality, just like how you launch Store app.” Access the feature by bringing “up Pins...
British Army Spends £1 Million To Trial VR Soldier Training
The British Army awarded Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BiSim) a £1 million contract to develop VR training software. The scheme is called ‘Virtual Reality in Land Training’ (VRLT). The army claims VRLT “will allow soldiers to train in a wide-range of complex and hostile simulated scenarios that are not easy to recreate on a training ground”....
Holopoint Chronicle Review: A Fitting Follow-Up To A VR Fitness Gem
Sequels don’t come much more by-the-numbers than Holopoint Chronicle. But then, for a game so matter-of-fact as ‘shoot arrows, get fit’, you don’t really need much else, do you? The original Holopoint helped people lose weight and the sequel looks like it will do the same. This is evolution over revolution, with incremental improvements and additions...
The 25 Best PSVR Games: Day #1
Sony’s PSVR headset has proven to be something of a white knight for VR. Despite being technically inferior to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on almost every level, PlayStation leveraged 20+ years of industry experience to create an awesome line-up for its PS4-based device. PSVR is home to many of VR’s best games and...
