It’s just a few days now until Borderlands 2 VR graces PSVR headsets everywhere, bringing pretty much the entire original game into VR. As developer Gearbox has said from the start, though, there is one crucial feature missing in this version: co-op. Borderlands 2 VR is a single-player only experience, which has come as disappointing...
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PSVR’s Falcon Age Continues To Look Stunning In New Trailer
This new trailer for PSVR exclusive Falcon Age is comprised of a lot of footage from the first one, but the game continues to look so promising that we don’t really care. As the name suggests, Outer Loop’s new adventure has players raising a falcon from birth, teaching it to fetch and hunt as well...
WaveOptics nabs $26M as it sets its sights on lower-cost AR hardware
At the heart of the lightweight augmented reality glasses that you’ve been promised is a display engine that a handful of tech companies are racing to improve. WaveOptics is one such startup looking to expand the capabilities and shrink the form factor of waveguide displays. The U.K.-based company has just raised $26 million in what...
TechSee nabs $16M for its customer support solution built on computer vision and AR
Chatbots and other AI-based tools have firmly found footing in the world of customer service, used either to augment or completely replace the role of a human responding to questions and complaints, or (sometimes, annoyingly, at the same time as the previous two functions) sell more products to users. Today, an Israeli startup called TechSee...
Cheddar’s Magic Leap One App Is Now Available Online, This Is How It Works
When the announcement of the Cheddar app for Magic Leap first went out on Tuesday morning, the app was not available on my updated Magic Leap One (located in New York City). However, after checking throughout the day, I can confirm that the app is now live. The free app downloaded very quickly and launched...
Magic Leap Launches Cheddar Video News Channel on Magic Leap One
The team at Magic Leap just got a millennial-style boost with the announcement that financial news network Cheddar is coming to the Magic Leap One. Cheddar CEO Jon Steinberg revealed the news in a surprise tweet early Tuesday morning. Don’t Miss: Hands-On with Magic Leap’s Avatar Chat, Remote Virtual Meetings in AR Have Arrived Included...
VRChat Is Finally Available On The Oculus Store
Popular social VR app VRChat is now available on the Oculus Store for Rift. Previously the app supported the Rift through SteamVR. The Steam version of the app has also been updated to use the Oculus API when used with a Rift. Direct Oculus API support tends to deliver higher performance and better stability to...
The 25 Best Oculus Rift Games Day #2
It was over six years ago now that a small group of people gathered together to run a Kickstarter campaign for a first-of-its-kind VR headset. They raised nearly $2.5 million and the Oculus Rift was born. Fast forward to 2018 and the Rift has been on the market for two and a half years and...
Patent Sale For Osterhout Design Group (ODG) Planned For January
Osterhout Design Group (ODG) may be dead before mass shipping its R-9 augmented reality glasses, with an asset sale planned for January focused on the AR company’s patent portfolio. I left a voicemail on ODG’s listed phone line, sent an email and spoke briefly on the phone with a representative of Hilco Streambank, which describes...
‘Odin’ Is A 4K SteamVR Headset From Russia, Launching ‘Summer 2019’
Russian startup DEUS will be showing off their new SteamVR compatible headset called ‘Odin’ at CES2019. The company intends to release an ‘Odin Pre’ version of headset in February. This ‘Pre’ model is aimed at businesses and developers, and will ship with a 3DoF controller for an estimated price of $1100. A refined consumer version...
