Virtual and augmented reality news
We’ve seen plenty of VR escape rooms in the past few years. They usually offer mind-bending puzzles that take you hours to solve. The Goodbye Room, however, promises something a little different. This new VR adventure from developer Fire Mammoth is an ‘escape room with feelings’. At least that’s the phrase the studio’s Max Ellinger...
Alphabet’s Google filed for a patent for a compression system specifically designed for frames produced by foveated rendering. Foveated rendering is a process which renders most of the view of a VR headset at lower resolution except for the exact area where the user’s eye is pointed, which is detected with eye tracking. That area...
A little over two years ago now I wrote an article about a little game called Robot Rescue. It was a free demo included in Sony Japan’s Playroom VR launch compilation for PSVR. Its vision of a third-person platformer enhanced by player participation was so compelling I argued it needed a full game. Many others...
There’s a new faces heading up Facebook’s AR/VR hardware division and Portal project.Read More Source: Facebook gets new VP of AR/VR hardware and Portal boss
VR real-time strategy game Final Assault is hitting Early Access on February 12, but does it have enough meat for RTS fans?Read More Source: Final Assault hands-on: This VR strategy game’s simplicity is its sweet spot
UploadVR interviewed Meron Gribetz, the founder of Meta Company, and heard his explanation of what happened to the startup as it ran out of money.Read More Source: Meta Company’s Meron Gribetz: From high AR headset ambitions to bank sale
Ace Combat 7’s VR Missions are a PlayStation 4/PSVR exclusive for the moment. But a line on its packaging hints that this is a timed exclusive.Read More Source: Ace Combat 7’s VR Missions could hit Oculus Rift and Vive PC headsets in 2020
There’s a new face heading up Facebook’s AR/VR hardware division. Rafa Camargo has jumped from his previous role as VP of Facebook’s Portal team to VP, AR/VR Hardware. Camargo confirmed the news on Twitter. He added that he’ll be helping to launch the new Oculus Quest standalone headset. VP AR/VR at Facebook, Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth...
Andrew Wilson has begun cancelling and restarting Star Wars projects because it’s the only way he can feel anything anymore.Read More Source: GamesBeat Decides 108: Rebooting Star Wars for fun and profit
Business Insider is reporting that a source has tried on a prototype of the AR glasses under development at Facebook. The source claims the prototype “resembled traditional glasses much more closely than the bulky AR headsets offered by Microsoft (the HoloLens) or Magic Leap.” “They look like really high-end glasses,” the source said, adding “it’s...
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