https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8uxznaGiwVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: HTC Vive Cosmos Preview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V8uxznaGiw) Earlier this week I visited HTC’s office in San Francisco, CA and finally tried out their upcoming new HTC Vive Cosmos (official website) VR headset that launches on October 3, 2019, for $699. Pre-orders are now live. With six inside-out tracking cameras,...
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Classic VR Horror Game Dreadhalls Comes To Quest Next Month
A classic VR horror game, Dreadhalls, is finally getting its Quest release soon. Dreadhalls hits the standalone headset on October 3 for $9.99. Full cross-buy support is available for anyone that’s already bought the game on Oculus Rift. Developed by White Door Games, Dreadhalls is a first-person dungeon escape game. The game uses randomly generated...
VR Arcade Shooter After-H Is Coming To Home Headsets For Free
We often see successful VR games played at home make their way to arcades. After-H, however, is doing things the other way around. This competitive first-person shooter, developed by French team smartVR first launched in arcades. This month, however, it’s coming to Steam Early Access with support for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. It’s...
Another high-flying, heavily funded AR headset startup is shutting down
While Apple and Microsoft strain to sell augmented reality as the next major computing platform, many of the startups aiming to beat them to the punch are crashing and burning. Daqri, which built enterprise-grade AR headsets, has shuttered its HQ, laid off many of its employees and is selling off assets ahead of a shutdown,...
Time Magazine Takes Readers on an Augmented Reality Tour of Amazon Rainforest
Prior to this year, Time primarily relied on image markers in the magazine to trigger its special augmented reality features In 2019, though, the venerable media entity has embraced the markerless tracking provided by ARKit and ARCore via the new Time Immersive app, and a new feature on the Amazon rainforest stands in as its...
Vive Cosmos Hands-On: Sharp Visuals, But Value Remains Unclear
Earlier this week I visited HTC’s office in San Francisco, CA and finally tried out their upcoming new HTC Vive Cosmos (official website) VR headset that launches on October 3, 2019, for $699. Pre-orders are now live. With six inside-out tracking cameras, brand new controllers, and a high-resolution screen, this new VR device certainly has...
iOS 13 Code Confirms Apple AR Glasses & Spatial Interface Launcher
Last week, MacRumors reportedly found references to iPhone-connected AR glasses and a spatial launcher interface for them. This week the final iOS 13 build was released to developers which confirms the report. The confirmation was made by developer Steve Troughton-Smith, who found a ReadMe file explaining how to test AR apps on iOS. The iOS...
Google ARCore Update Brings Changes To ‘Visual Processing In The Cloud‘
Google is updating its augmented reality cloud anchors system which takes camera data from your phone, processes parts of it on their servers, and produces a 3D map of the environment. The technology allows for shared AR experiences where multiple camera-based gadgets can see the positions of one another. The change to the “Cloud Anchors...
Google Brings Persistent Content Support to Cloud Anchors, Expands Augmented Faces to iOS
With Android 10 hitting the streets (at least for those mobile devices that get quick updates) and the public release of iOS 13 dropping on Sept. 19, Google is releasing an update on Thursday to ARCore that adds some fantastic new benefits to its cross-platform capabilities. For its Cloud Anchors API for multi-user augmented reality...
HTC Vive Cosmos Launches October 3 For $699, Pre-Orders Now Live
HTC’s next PC VR headset is priced at $699. Pre orders are now live, and it will launch globally on October 3. Cosmos replaces the original HTC Vive, which HTC tells us is “coming out of the market very shortly”. The original Vive launched at $799 over three years ago, then was cut to $599...
