SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
It sounds like new official details about Sony’s PS5 console could be revealed as early as next week. Bloomberg is reporting that Sony is planning to host an event for the anticipated next-generation console on June 3. However, the report notes that this date could change. The digital show is intended to showcase games for...
Pico Interactive is making its Neo 2 line of standalone headsets available for purchase worldwide. The base model is $700 while an eye-tracking variant powered by Tobii is $900. We tried both models at CES in January and while the eye-tracking wasn’t perfect in the early demo, it also worked without calibration and the electromagnetic...
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the adoption of new technologies and cultural shifts that were already well underway. According to a clutch of heavy-hitting investors, this dynamic is particularly strong in gaming and extended reality. Unlike other segments of the startup and tech world, where valuations have been slashed, early-stage companies focused on building new...
Augmented reality filters on Instagram are picking up some new tricks with the latest update to Facebook’s Spark AR platform. Spark AR has been making pretty consistent updates to the feature sets developers can play with in creating AR filters since it exited closed beta on Instagram last year. Today, Facebook added some new functionality...
The new trailer for Update 8, the massive “Sorcery Update” for Blade & Sorcery just dropped yesterday with the reveal that it will hit both Steam and Oculus Home for Rift platforms on June 4th. One of the recurring jokes about this game is that ever since it debuted in Early Access the title has...
Peter Chou, the former HTC CEO that oversaw the company’s beginnings in the VR space, has a new company working on a new standalone headset that uses hand-tracking named Mova, and it’s making some hefty promises. Mova — originally set to release in late 2019 — is anchored around two core aspects. First, there’s the...
We promised you brand new game reveals at the Upload VR Showcase on June 8th, but we’ll also be revealing some brand new studios too. It’s all a bit hush-hush for now, but we’ll be debuting the first project from an all-new VR developer, too. We can’t say much ourselves, but the team has its...
Unity is launching its new augmented reality creation tools collectively known as MARS on June 1. The tools have been under construction for a few years now and are meant to make cross-platform development of robust augmented reality projects easier with Unity. According to Unity, the tools include: WYSIWYG authoring experience Author complex, data-oriented apps...
Earlier this week Beat Games released a free update for Beat Saber, adding a bunch of new maps. The update was supposed to hit all headsets at the same time, but PSVR players are still waiting. It turns out that some technical issues are causing a small delay in the Beat Saber PSVR update. In...
Since Qualcomm provides chips and software for most of the world’s best known virtual and augmented reality headsets, it’s uniquely able to forecast the future of mixed reality hardware. Just ahead of this week’s Augmented World Expo, Qualcomm XR chief Hugo Swart used a Spatial holographic conference to brief media on how that future will likely play out. And though...
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