ProBeat: Facebook ramps up its VR price war
In July, there was a single week when Facebook’s Oculus cut prices for its Rift VR headset and Touch controller to $400 for a...
The DeanBeat: Optimism and despair over VR at Oculus Connect
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, injected a dose of optimism into the crowd at the Oculus Connect event this week at the San Jose...
3rd Eye Studios raises $1 million for its VR, PC, and mobile gaming dev tool
3rd Eye Studios announced today that it has closed a $1 million round of funding. The company will use the investment on its toolset,...
Sunken is the hidden object VR game that takes you under the sea
Sunken is a virtual reality game that plunges players into the ocean deep to explore shipwrecks. Though it’s a low-stakes hidden object game, it’s...
Microsoft resuscitates AltspaceVR for social mixed reality
Microsoft announced today that it has acquired the AltspaceVR team as it announced its big initiative to created a hardware and software ecosystem around...
Samsung’s Windows Mixed Reality headset Odyssey ships November 6 for $499
At its Windows Mixed Reality event today, Microsoft made a slew of announcements, including that it has a new partner: Samsung. The South Korean company...
ARKit and ARCore are leaving VR in the rearview mirror
AR/VR has become a two speed market, with mobile AR set to have over twice the number of users at launch in 2017 than...
Vuforia 7 helps augmented reality blend into real life
Augmented reality tech company Vuforia is announcing a new version of its augmented reality platform that enables more seamless integration of AR into real-world...
Intel makes the case for wireless PC-based high-end virtual reality
Intel recently hosted a 100-year-old man at its virtual reality lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Lyle Becker was a big fan of the VR flight simulator,...
Stack AR is the first ARKit game to top Apple App Store’s free-to-play category
Stack launched last year for iOS and Android, but with iOS 11 rolling out to iPhones everywhere, developer Ketchapp Games rereleased the game with...