SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Facebook’s Q4 2020 ‘Other’ revenue was more than double Q4 2019. CFO David Wehner explained the increase to investors as “due to strong Quest 2 holiday sales”. The company’s non-advertising revenue in quarter 4 of 2020 was $885 million, up from $346 million in Q4 2019. That’s an increase of 156% year-over-year. Oculus Quest 2 launched...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg offered some of his strongest comments about the strength of the company’s business in virtual reality in an earnings call with investors. Quest 2 “is on track to be the first mainstream virtual reality headset,” Zuckerberg said during the call. “Facebook has done more than any other company to help virtual...
Fast Travel Games offered a new peek inside its upcoming VR horror game Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife and confirmed a spring 2021 release window for the title. The new trailer shows a look at “The Shadow” — a guide and narrator throughout the game. Check it out in the new teaser: A post on...
The last few months have seen Google wind down a lot of its VR work, but the developer of Job and Vacation Simulator says it isn’t going anywhere. Yesterday brought news that Google was making its VR creation platform, Tilt Brush, open-source. Hidden inside the announcement was the snippet that Google itself will no longer...
If you’re a man and subscribe to podcasts or YouTube channels that cater to masculine interests, then you’ve almost certainly encountered sponsorships from Manscaped. And that means I don’t have to explain what the company is selling you (for the uninitiated, it’s a company dedicated to helping you trim your body hair—most notably, your nether...
Gorn hits Oculus Quest later this week, but you can watch team Upload play it today in our Gorn Oculus Quest livestream at 8:30am PT/4:30pm GMT! Free Lives’ brilliantly bloody battle sim is finally making the jump to standalone VR. We’ve already been hands-on with the port and it’s shaping up really well. Join Jamie...
The Animal Crossing series has been a big hit for Nintendo, so in a bid to enhance the experience even more for users, the game is getting the augmented reality treatment. The latest update for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp adds two new features for iOS and Android smartphone users. Don’t Miss: What the New AR...
When Treasury Wine Estates released 19 Crimes Snoop Cali Red this summer, named for its new partner in wine, rapper Snoop Dogg, it already came with the brand’s signature AR-enhanced label. Now, with an assist from creative studio Tactic and the web-based AR platform from 8th Wall, Snoop Cali Red has a new (and, arguably,...
HaptX just announced the new version of its state-of-the-art VR input device – HaptX Gloves DK2. Gloves may be the ultimate goal for VR input. Some use the term “haptic gloves” to refer to finger tracking with basic vibration motors on each finger, but companies like HaptX go much further. HaptX gloves have “true-contact haptics”...
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners turned 1 this week, and in a celebration video members of developer Skydance Interactive teased they can’t wait to share “what’s next”. The two-minute video, recently posted on Twitter, has individual members of the development team thanking fans for the game’s first year, in which it generated more than...
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