Vive X is an incubator started by HTC that is designed to help VR startups turn their ideas into profitable realities. Earlier this week, Vive X hosted its very first demo day at its downtown San Francisco headquarters. This was an opportunity for members of the press and of the investment community to see these...
Following a bout of skeptical press, Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz claims the company is already doing production test runs of their first AR “system,” which is said to be “small, sleek, cool.” Following an oddly scathing headline from The Verge, based on a report by The Information, Magic Leap’s peculiar CEO, Rony Abovitz, published a...
Featured image from left to right: Rob Goodman (OpenVerse), Han Jin (Lucid VR), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Timoni West and Tony Parisi (Unity). With new hardware releases from Google, HTC, and PlayStation, the runaway success of augmented reality megahit Pokémon GO, and the early buzz of Snap’s Spectacles all filling our newsfeeds in 2016, you’d think...
Tim Sweeney has some stern words for some of VR’s biggest players. The legendary programmer and founder of Epic Games sat down with me after his keynote address at the VRX conference in San Francisco and, as conversations with Sweeney usually do, the topic quickly turned to the issue of open platforms. “I think it’s a...
Let’s get one thing straight: unless our games editor is in a particularly evil mood and assigns me the review, I’m probably not going to play Resident Evil 7 in VR. Heck, I find the Beginning Hour demo so terrifying even on a standard screen I’m not entirely sure I’m going to play it at...
I never knew a shovel could be this powerful. Seriously, my twin uzis lay forgotten on the ground. Their pitiful bullets simply could not compete with the unstoppable savagery of my spade. I named her Gwendalyn and she eats zombies for breakfast. The undead in question are swarming around me as I play through Playside Studios’...
Google Daydream has only been out a few weeks, but it’s already built up a pretty respectable line-up of mobile VR games, both new and old. The problem is it’s pretty tricky to browse compatible apps on the Android store. We’re hoping that Google offers better options in the near future but, until then, we’ve...
Without external cameras or beacons, Occipital’s environment-mapping headset adds advanced mixed-reality capabilities to the iPhone 6, 6S, and 7. The post The Bridge Headset Powers Up iPhone VR With Positional Tracking appeared first on WIRED. Source: The Bridge Headset Powers Up iPhone VR With Positional Tracking
San Francisco-based Occipital is one of the many companies that wants to bring inside-out tracking to mobile VR, but its means of doing so stands apart from others. Rather than modding existing headsets with extra cameras, Occipital today announced Bridge, its own mobile headset designed for use with Apple’s iPhone 7, 6, and 6s. The...
In the overcrowded genre of VR shooters, with quite a few of the zombie variety already out in the wild, Vertigo Games have a take on zombie slaughter that makes enough tweaks to the formula to ensure that Arizona Sunshine stands head and shoulders above the competition. Arizona Sunshine Details: Developer: Vertigo Games & Jaywalkers Interactive Publisher: Vertigo GamesAvailable...
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