Qualcomm President Cristiano Amon said that his company’s Snapdragon chips are already in 20 mixed reality or virtual reality headsets, and 20 more are in development based on Snapdragon. That includes the upcoming Oculus Go standalone VR headset coming from Facebook’s Oculus division in 2018. Hugo Barra, vice president at Oculus, joined Qualcomm’s press event...
GUEST: AR/VR investment records fell last year as startups raised over $3 billion in 28 categories we track including over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017 alone. Perhaps the most surprising thing was Magic Leap, the bellwether of big AR/VR rounds, becoming slightly less mythical by finally revealing its product and taking less than a fifth of...
As more developers consider diversity as an important factor in hiring, the more of these game makers believe that publishers aren’t doing enough to facilitate diverse hiring practices, according to an International Game Developers Association survey. Fewer IGDA respondents say that companies are doing enough to promote diversity than in 2016. Those same survey takers...
HTC announced today at a press event ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show that it’s launching a new browsing experience for its Viveport VR storefront. It’s also rolling out an update for its VR media player Vive Video, including an integration with the video-hosting site Vimeo. Both are available immediately. Viveport VR riffs on...
HTC announced its new Vive Pro headset at a press conference today ahead of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show. It features integrated speakers and a higher resolution than its current Vive headset. HTC also unveiled its HTC Wireless Adaptor, which will enable users to connect their Vive Pro or Vive headsets to their computers without...
WaveOptics announced ahead of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show that it’s launching its AR Module Program, giving third-party developers access to its augmented reality waveguides technology. The program is rolling out first to WaveOptics’s clients, primarily original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs), but other developers will have access starting in July. “WaveOptics is already...
NextVR announced today that it’s improving its virtual reality experiences by adding higher resolution and six degrees of freedom (it labels this as “6DOF”). It will roll out 6DOF throughout 2018, first to recorded content and then to streams, which will enable spectators to move around to get a better view of the action. In...
Nvidia announced a new system on a chip today designed to bring a massive amount of computing power to bear for self-driving car applications. Called the Drive Xavier, each SoC packs a whopping 9 billion transistors with an eight-core CPU, a 256-core GPU based on Nvidia’s Volta architecture, and new components tailored for accelerating deep...
Augmented reality is getting ready to help you look your very best; Amazon has patented a mirror that dresses you in virtual clothes. The patent, first spotted by GeekWire, provides a ‘blended reality’ view of yourself wearing stylish outfits in virtual locations. A camera at the top of the mirror tracks the user’s body and then a...
Pimax’s anticipated 8K VR headset will not be shipping to Kickstarter backers this month or next. The device, which raised over $4 million in crowd-funding last year, was originally estimated by the company to start shipping in December, with a basic package consisting of just the headset arriving for backers in January and the full packages including...
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