Virtual and augmented reality news
When I first reported on the debut of Bigscreen, a virtual desktop social sharing and streaming platform for VR headsets, I immediately recognized a huge opportunity. Sitting in a virtual room, on a virtual couch, chatting with a real person, and sharing our screens as if we were side-by-side hanging out together, was thrilling. From...
The problem with Call of Duty‘s Jackal Assault VR mission is that it doesn’t really have anything to do with Call of Duty. True, it carries the name and puts you in the cockpit of the spacecraft from this year’s entry into gaming’s biggest franchise, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, but it’s about as far...
HTC announced the first class of 33 companies to join its Vive X accelerator back in July, but has since remained tight-lipped about what those startups have been up to. This week, we’ve heard the first update from one of those companies, ObEN. The Pasadena-based group raised $7.7 million in a Series A round of...
Next week the PlayStation 4 Pro officially releases to the world. When Sony debuted the console at its PlayStation Meeting two months ago in New York, everyone already knew what to expect and we were left a bit disappointed overall. While it would support 4K and HDR gaming, the supposed enhancements for PlayStation VR [device review]content seemed...
“360 Videos are not real virtual reality.” If you’ve spent any time following the VR Space chances are you’ve heard that phrase more than once. As immersive and interesting as 360 videos can be, there are those that refuse to accept them as “true” VR due to their lack of interactive elements. 360 camera technology...
As the virtual reality world continues to expand rapidly one portion of the globe that often goes overlooked is Europe. The United States, China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan have been hogging most of the spotlight, but The United Kingdom, Germany, and the Netherlands are becoming more attention-worthy by the day. To celebrate and facilitate this...
Some of the earliest experiments of making VR a first-class citizen on the web originated at Mozilla in 2014. Then the WebVR spec was drafted in a collaboration between Mozilla and Google’s implementations. There’s been a lot of excitement and momentum building around WebVR over the last couple of months first with the WebVR announcements...
There’s been a lot of talk lately (including from yours truly), about the impressive comfort of Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, but Idealens K2, a mobile all-in-one VR headset out of China, features a promising new ergonomic approach that might be the most comfortable I’ve ever worn. The Idealens K2 is an all-in-one VR headset. It’s...
You turn on your PC, put an Oculus Rift on your head, and boot up EVE: Valkyrie for a little late night gaming after a long day. You’re sitting in the lobby, or clone chamber as it were, waiting for a new match to start. As you look around, blue lights start to glow at...
Intel is one of the largest and most recognizable corporations in the tech industry, supplying processors and other hardware and software for a plethora of computer manufacturers including Apple, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and more. No company in such a prominent field can make a move without catching the eyes of the world but, even more...
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