From November 24th to the 28th, purchases of an Oculus Rift headset through Best Buy will be eligible for $100 of Oculus Store credit which can be spent on Rift and Gear VR games and apps. This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, prospective VR adopters will see the first discounts on newly launched headsets. In...
The Nintendo Entertainment system launched in 1985 with less than 20 titles for consumers to choose from. This year the world’s first high-end consumer virtual reality headsets launched and there are already hundreds of different apps, games and experiences available for them. Finding content is not an issue for today’s VR customer. What is a problem...
Announced nearly a year and a half ago, Oculus and Microsoft are finally making good on their promise to stream Xbox One games into a virtual theater on the Rift. Xbox One users have been able to stream their games to a locally networked Windows 10 PC since the middle of last year. In June,...
HTC and the Shenzhen Municipal Government announced plans to set up a joint China VR Research Institute, creating a 10 billion RMB (~$1.45 billion USD) Shenzhen VR Investment Fund to accelerate the development of the VR industry in China. China’s third largest city and one of the fastest growing in the world with a population of...
A few months ago we interviewed Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, Pete Hines, about the company’s ambitions and plans for virtual reality — including Fallout 4. He was decidedly cautious and was careful not to say too much, a sentiment that’s often reflected throughout Bethesda’s senior leadership, and is a big reason why they maintain such a...
I really don’t understand what happened in the brainstorm meeting that led to the creation of the NBA 2KVR Experience that released today on HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, and Samsung Gear VR. The premise is sound: bring one of the most well-known sporting franchises to VR with an officially licensed game from the publishers of the...
The global construction market will hit $10.3 trillion in 2020, and it’s a field where mistakes are costly: rework typically makes up 12 percent of project costs, reaching tens of millions of dollars on big projects. But augmented reality can change that, which is why construction is one of the first industries starting to explore...
It was well over a year ago that the promise of Xbox streaming to the Oculus Rift was first promised by Phil Spencer during a June 2015 press event in San Francisco. The idea was to allow your Rift to function as a highly immersive monitor for your Xbox console. Every game or Netflix binge...
Virtual reality, at its most efficient, can save companies time and money with its digital spaces. VR can supply immersive meeting spaces with a level of interaction not available to phone or even video conference calls. Those digital areas can even be shaped to test tools, ideas, and take risks that would otherwise be financially...
From November 24th to the 28th, purchases of an Oculus Rift headset through Best Buy will be eligible for $100 of Oculus Store credit which can be spent on Rift and Gear VR games and apps. This Black Friday and Cyber Monday, prospective VR adopters will see the first discounts on newly launched headsets. In...
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