SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Some of the products I have been looking forward to seeing the most during CES 2017 has been the upcoming Windows Holographic virtual reality headsets. These are VR headset that will run a version of the Windows Holographic platform, which will allow users to have a similar experience as the HoloLens with a mixed reality...
Sony’s PlayStation 4 continues to widen the gap between it and the Xbox One with a strong 2016. In a statement, the consumer electronics company announced that over 53 million PlayStation 4 consoles had been sold to date. After the launch of the PlayStation VR headset, the PlayStation 4 Pro, and the remodeled PlayStation 4 Slim...
There are various mediums for creators of different kinds within the VR ecosystem and Visionary VR’s Mindshow is giving users a platform to create and share animated narratives through virtual reality. We reported on the software back in April, where it left an impression on us as VR’s “missing character animation and storyrtelling tool”, and CES 2017...
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz, better known by the simplified monicker, “Dr. Oz,” has quite the extensive resume. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon and professor at Columbia University as well as an author, speaker and television promoter. Now, you can add “virtual reality evangelist” to that list as well. Öz recently co-founded a company called ShareCare — a web platform...
Augmented reality’s potential is immense. To say that of any new technology is increasingly cliché, indeed, but every few weeks another program or piece of hardware rekindles that train of thought and we have to revisit the declaration. This time around we have an application that doesn’t overlay our real world with entertaining or educational...
Starting in Spring 2017, you’ll be able to pay a flat monthly fee for VR games using the Viveport digital distribution platform. HTC calls itself the first ever global app store to announce a subscription service for VR content. Announced at VRLA last summer, Viveport is somewhat of a parallel marketplace to Steam, featuring all-VR content across...
KwikVR, a wireless add-on kit for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is going to beat TPCAST’s solution to market, but, if you’re desperate for untethered VR, you might want to hold on for the latter’s launch instead of jumping the gun early. Scalable Graphics, the cloud solutions company behind KwikVR, told me at CES this...
Owlchemy Labs, the trailblazing developers of Job Simulator, today announced its VR game available for Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR has officially cleared $3 million in sales, the largest figure we’ve heard to date for PC-based VR. The Austin-based startup raised $5 million in August after developing a number of fundamental interaction technologies for its Vive-bundled...
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather...
Owlchemy Labs today announced that its tongue-in-cheek simulator game, Job Simulator (2016), has earned over $3 million in sales since its launch last April. According to Owlchemy Labs, this combined with the fact that Job Simulator has generated over 250 million views from videos created by the YouTube community, makes Job Simulator “the most popular VR...
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