Facebook’s Oculus applied for a patent on an electromagnetic cable connector for PC VR headsets. The concept is similar to the ‘MagSafe’ connector which Apple MacBooks featured until recently. In current wired VR headsets if you accidentally step on the cable or go too far from the PC, either the computer or the VR headset can...
In case you hadn’t heard, we’ve got confirmation from multiple sources that not only is Valve working on its very own VR headset, but the headset is also expected to come bundled with a Half-Life VR game. Reportedly, this game will be a prequel story either before or immediately after Half-Life 2. Today, November 19th,...
Fallout 4 is probably never getting PSVR support. Fallout 76 is very likely never getting official VR support, whether it be PSVR, Rift, Vive, or something else, probably ever. Pete Hines told us as much back at E3 earlier this year. But that didn’t stop me from hopping into the game while wearing a PSVR...
The StarVR One head-mounted display with its ultra wide field of view costs $3200. The price includes the headset and cables, but does not include SteamVR base stations necessary for positional tracking or the controllers necessary for interaction. The StarVR One headset boasts some monster specifications including a 210° horizontal × 130° vertical field of view,...
The VR industry really wants you to buy a headset this Black Friday. Some of the deals we’ve seen even ahead of this year’s big shopping day are, frankly, beyond belief. If you’re yet to take the dive and get into VR then this is definitely the week to do it, and you’ll find no...
Snap has announced a partner program intended to make it easier for brands to get on board with — and pay for — its augmented reality “lenses” by helping advertisers find certified AR shops to craft the digital product placements on their behalf. The move follows the visual messaging platform opening up lenses, almost a...
Genies is emerging as the top competitor to Snapchat’s wildly popular Bitmoji as Facebook, Apple and Google have been slow to get serious about personalized avatars. More than one million people have customized dozens of traits to build a realistic digital lookalike of themselves from over a million possible permutations. When Genies launched a year...
Later this week, Black Friday will mark the start to the holiday shopping season, but if you’re buying for a Magic Leap One owner, you can buy their ideal gift now. On Monday, Sennheiser fulfilled the September announcement of its partnership with Magic Leap with the release of the Ambeo AR One, the first spatial...
HTC is shaving $200 off of the price of its most expensive VR headset for this Black Friday weekend. The company today announced that the Vive Pro Full Kit, which includes news new PC-based VR headset with enhanced resolution as well as two controllers and two SteamVR 2.0 base stations, will cost $1199 from November...
HTC may finally be rolling out its Vive Focus standalone headset to businesses this month, but a new trademark filing has us wondering what else the company is working on. The Taiwanese smartphone maker recently filed a trademark at the EUIPO (first spotted by Dutch site Mobielkopen) for something called ‘Vive Cosmos’. There’s no exact...
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