Unity hosted a keynote presentation in Copenhagen and announced a series of updates to its AR and mixed reality creation tools. Unity’s MARS tool — which stands for Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio — is going to have companion apps for dedicated AR gadgets. The first version of the tool is coming for mobile phones...
Pistol Whip is coming to PC VR and Oculus Quest on November 7 with a PSVR version “coming soon” as well. The new John Wick-inspired Cloudhead Games title is described as an “action-rhythm FPS” which appears inspired by the art style of Superhot and the global rhythm phenomenon of Beat Saber. While Beat Saber gives...
Facebook is in the final stages of acquiring a New York based startup called CTRL Labs which was developing an armband which tracks the user’s fingers by reading electrical signals inside their arm. It works by detecting electrical signals passing through the user’s wrist to the fingers. Based on how the signal changes passing through...
Espire 1: VR Operative was slated to finally release on PC VR, Quest, and PSVR all at the same time tomorrow on September 24th but is getting delayed once again, this time for “several weeks” to work out lingering “stability and performance issues.” Digital Lode and Tripwire made the announcement via an update posted on...
A patent application filed by Apple offers a look at the company’s ideas for wide field of view foveated augmented reality display technology. Reports that Apple is working on AR glasses first emerged in late 2017. In 2018, Apple acquired Akonia Holographics, a startup working on novel optics for AR based on holography. Based on...
Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today, we want to know what you think is going to go down at Oculus Connect 6 later this week. We’re...
Lock the doors and board the windows PC VR fans; Intruders: Hide and Seek is coming your way. Tessera Studios’ creepy home invasion game originally released as a PSVR exclusive earlier this year. The game’s now listed on Steam for release on September 26 (Thursday!). It will launch with full support for the Oculus Rift,...
Former soccer star and current celebrity David Beckham has the augmented reality abilities of Facebook and Instagram as allies in the effort to eradicate malaria from the world. The “Malaria Must Die So Millions Can Live” campaign launched earlier this year with Beckham as its spokesperson, but, the campaign is kicking up activity with augmented...
What about the impact of VR/AR in Africa? What VR/AR could bring to Africa’s tourism and culture? We are excited to announce the animation: ” Les possibilités de la VR/AR pour le tourisme & la culture en Afrique, et comment accompagner les startups” by Jean-Philippe Mohamed Sangaré CEO of SSVAR if you didn’t buy your pass, it’s...
Right now enterprise XR is where most growth in XR is happening outside of Oculus and Sony’s walled gardens. If you look at the majority headset manufacturers and the major developments happening in the industry, most of them are targeting the enterprise market. This is happening for a multitude of reasons, but the primary reasons...
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