Outlyer Technologies’ Advrtas brings ads to virtual reality
Virtual reality is the next frontier for … advertising. Outlyer Technologies is announcing its Advrtas platform today, which enables the creation of interactive ads...
Loook studio will make mixed reality apps for Microsoft HoloLens
Inspired by Microsoft’s HoloLens holographic glasses, the founders of Loook are announcing today that they are creating “mixed reality” apps that blend holographic animations...
Naked Labs’ home fitness scanner captures your entire body in 3D
Naked Labs is unveiling what it calls the world’s first 3D Fitness Tracker. It scans your entire body using a mirror and a scale,...
Naughty America tries to get VR porn just right
Believe it or not, the porn industry is having a bit of a hard time with virtual reality. VR is all about immersing you...
Facebook wants to make social VR indistinguishable from real life
Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition...
Facebook demos taking selfies in VR
Facebook chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer just showed how to take a selfie of yourself and a friend inside a virtual reality 360-degree photo....
Twitch’s Kathy Astromoff will share developer success strategies at GamesBeat Summit 2016
We’re happy to be adding Kathy Astromoff as a lightning talk speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May...
Japan’s Gree creates a $12M virtual reality investment fund
Japanese developer Gree makes about billion dollars a year in revenue for mobile games. But the company is signaling a shift today as it is creating...
Lucid VR raises $2.1M for 180-degree virtual reality camera
Lucid VR has raised $2.1 million and it has partnered with Taiwanese manufacturer Wistron to make its LucidCam 180-degree virtual reality camera. The pocket-sized...
This flying saucer is Facebook’s virtual reality 360-degree camera
Facebook has created a 360-degree camera to capture virtual reality imagery from its Oculus Rift headset. The Facebook Surround 360 camera solves a problem that...