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...
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Rift Developers Can Now Grant Custom Oculus Home Items As Achievements
Developers of Oculus Rift games sold on the Oculus Store can now grant custom Oculus Home items as achievements. Users can decorate their virtual homes with these achievements and even show off them off to friends. Facebook first announced this feature at Oculus Connect 5 back in late September. Since then it’s been trialed with...
Liam Payne Set To Star In MelodyVR’s First Live VR Concert
Since its launch on Oculus Go earlier this year the MelodyVR app has mainly focused on building out a library of concerts recorded in 360 degrees for people to watch back in VR. Attending a live concert without having to leave your home has always been one of VR’s big promises, though, and the service...
Oculus Announces VR Charity Challenge With $100,000 Up For Grabs
T’is the season to be giving and Oculus and ESL will be bestowing $100,000 upon one of two charities through the new Change the Game VR Charity Challenge web-show. Set to run this week from December 13th – 16th, the challenge will see two teams of five influencers go head-to-head in four VR games. At...
Apex Construct Gets A New Mode, Improved Locomotion In Fresh Update
It may be approaching a year on sale, but Fast Travel Games’ Apex Construct continues to get updated with plenty of new content. Today’s release is perhaps its biggest yet. Fast Travel just launched the ‘Cygnia Cup Challenge’ for all versions of the first-person adventure. Existing outside of the game’s main campaign, this is a...
AR startup Blippar in danger of becoming a blip as shareholders fight over future funding
Blippar, the U.K.-based AR startup that raised more than $130 million, may be nearing the end of the road. The company has been burning through cash in a bid to pivot in search of a profitable AR business model, and now shareholders are in dispute over whether to throw Blippar any more money to aid...
ARCore 1.6 Gifts Developers with Improved Lighting & Support for Screen Capturing
Christmas has arrived early for ARCore app developers, as Google just unwrapped a few iterative improvements to the augmented reality toolkit in version 1.6. The first improvement comes in the form of improved lighting in Sceneform, Google’s 3D rendering library for Javascript. Now, lighting defaults to ambient light to neutral or white shades, instead of...
XTAL Ultra High-End VR Headset Adds Neurable’s Emotion Analysis
A new partnership between Neurable and VRgineers adds the former’s “brain sensors” to the ultra high-end XTAL VR headset. We tried out Neurable last year, a system which places EEG (Electroencephalography) sensors along the interior of a VR headset’s strap to gather data from contact with the skin around the brain. Combining that information in real-time with...
How To Sideload Apps And Games On Oculus Go
If you want to find and install unique VR apps for Go that aren’t available on the Oculus Store, or you want to use regular 2D Android apps like Amazon Prime Video and Steam Link, this guide explains how to achieve both. You’ll need a Windows computer with a USB port- the Go can’t sideload...
Skyworld Translates Perfectly To PSVR, For What It’s Worth
Remember Skyworld? It’s that other VR app from Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games, the one that didn’t quite enjoy the same level of critical success as its zombie-slaying brethren, at least on our part. Well it’s coming to PSVR early next year and, for what it’s worth, Vertigo seems to have done an ace job...
