Oculus Medium, the company’s VR sculpting app that launched alongside its Touch controllers in December 2016, just got a big update adding some crucial new features. Headlining Oculus Medium 2.0 is the ability to bring the creations you make into the new Oculus Home. As those that are taking part in the Rift Core 2.0...
(Reuters) — A federal court in Dallas on Wednesday halved the $500 million verdict that a jury ordered Facebook, its virtual reality unit Oculus, and others to pay ZeniMax, a video game publisher that alleged Oculus stole its technology. U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade also turned down ZeniMax’s request for a ban on the sale...
High Fidelity has raised $35 million in funding for its open source platform for building distributed social virtual reality worlds. The platform leverages blockchain technology to enable VR developers to create linkable experiences that can be easily deployed across platforms that also adhere to the open, transparent, and secure ledger technology.…Read More Source: High Fidelity...
GUEST: Last year, a seldom-discussed event started to raise important questions about augmented reality’s geographic boundaries. A group of artists digitally “vandalized” Snapchat’s AR overlays of Jeff Koons’ sculptures throughout Central Park. It turns out that the AR revolution has revolutionaries. To be clear, they didn’t…Read More Source: Who owns augmented realities?
Having sold off key smartphone assets last year, HTC now focuses substantially on Vive virtual reality devices, so it’s using the 2018 Mobile World Congress Shanghai for two major pushes: expanding the capabilities of its standalone Vive Focus headset and teasing the prospect of future 5G cellular-enabled products. Currently available only in…Read More Source: HTC demonstrates Vive Focus...
Microsoft today released a new preview for PCs with Edge, Skype, Diagnostic Data Viewer, video, typing insights, font, security, Task Manager, accessibility, container, and mixed reality improvements. This build is from the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update the company plans to release later this year. Windows 10 is being developed…Read More Source:...
Oculus has just raised the minimum and recommended spec for Rift devices to Windows 10, and is warning that users of older Windows OS versions “may not be able to use many new and upcoming features and apps.” If posts on Oculus’ blog are any indication, initial user reaction to the news isn’t entirely positive....
Virtual reality catches flack for isolating users, but an upcoming title from White Elk Studios and Oculus aims to bring VR and smartphone gamers together for a common purpose: robbing a museum. The companies today announced Covert, a “couch co-op heist game” that has two friends collaborating asymmetrically to steal a mysterious artifa…Read More Source:...
Lucid announced today at Mobile World Congress Shanghai that it’s teaming up with device makers to integrate its computer vision platform into dual-camera phones, drones, laptops, and security cameras. The Santa Clara-based company, which sells its own hardware — the VR180 LucidCam — partnered with camera maker Red this year to de…Read More Source: Lucid’s 3D...
Music-based rhythm games are great. Some of my favorite gaming memories involve being huddled around plastic guitars and drum sets in Rock Band or pounding on a DDR dance pad with friends. What those games have in common that’s missing from Beat Saber though, is multiplayer. Hopefully that won’t be the case for much longer. According to...
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