Virtual and augmented reality news
Intel is reportedly jumping into the world of augmented reality with a new headset. The company is using its RealSense 3D camera technology in the AR headset, according to the Wall Street Journal. Augmented reality is a separate but similar idea to virtual reality. Instead of taking up your entire field of view with computer-generated...
No more guessworkMicrosoft HoloLens, the company’s highly anticipated augmented-reality headgear finally has an official ship date: March 30th. This is good news for developers who started submitting applications to buy the $3,000 headset back in October of last year. Now, once they receive invitations, they can actually order the HoloLens Development Edition and see it...
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Amidst the launch of Daydream, mobile developer Rabbit Mountain is doubling down on Google Cardboard with the launch of another new game this week. The studio today launched Haunted Rooms, an episodic escape VR game, in partnership with Zariba. As you can probably imagine, the story sees you wake up in a locked room with...
Gotta catch ’em all, but how? When Pokemon Go comes to Android and iOS devices later in 2016, you’ll be able to conscript your very own army of the little critters and make them fight. And now, for the first time, we have a sense of how it’ll all work. SEE ALSO: Look at this giant...
Today, you use your smartphone’s cameras to take snaps and creates stories on Snapchat. But in the future, you could be Snapchatting with a pair of Google Glass-like smart glasses on your face. According to CNET, Snapchat has aggressively assembled a team of wearable experts to work on some kind of smart eyewear device. See...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates may be retired from running the largest software company in the world, but he’s still engaged in everything from technology to politics. Along those lines, Gates decided to show up for his fourth Ask Me Anything session on Reddit on Tuesday and, as usual, his responses to the public were revealing...
Microsoft’s HoloLens demo just transported us back to the ’80s. Microsoft showed off its HoloLens to developers at its Build 2016 conference. But unlike previous HoloLens demos, which were impressive, today’s demo was less awe-inspiring and more like a slice of bad ’80s special effects. Though holographic teachers are the future, this demo certainly wasn’t....
SAN FRANCISCO — I really didn’t get comfortable with the most recent version of the HoloLens until I got comfortable. I’d traveled to San Francisco, California, ostensibly for the Microsoft Build Developers conference, but my real quarry was the company’s now-shipping augmented-reality headset, the HoloLens Development Edition. It’s finally shipping to developers who preordered for...
On Wednesday, Microsoft hailed the official launch of its HoloLens augmented reality device to developers at its Build 2016 conference But unlike the past HoloLens demos, which were impressive enough to draw applause audience members, today’s demo was less awe-inspiring and more like a slice of bad ’80s special effects See also: Hands on with...
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