Wevr’s TheBlue: Deep Rescue debuts at Dreamscape social VR venue
Wevr’s TheBlu delivered a mesmerizing deep-sea experience with blue whales and other creatures when it debuted on virtual reality platforms in 2016. And now...
John Hanke: Niantic wants Pokémon Go to look more like its first trailer
Remember how cool that first trailer for Pokémon Go looked? So does John Hanke. The Niantic chief executive officer was onstage with Epic Games chief executive...
FitXR raises $1.25 million to encourage fitness with VR boxing
FitXR has raised $1.25 million in funding to encourage people to get exercise through virtual reality fitness games such as Box VR. Earlier this...
HTC Vive Wireless Adapter review — Trading cables for a battery
The problem with VR is … well, VR has more than one issue. The biggest one is that it’s still too expensive. But OK....
Resolution Games raises $7.5 million for AR/VR games
Scandinavia’s Resolution Games has raised $7.5 million for augmented reality and virtual reality development. While funding for virtual reality game makers aren’t what they...
Oculus says future Rift hardware is coming despite Iribe’s exit
As reported earlier today, Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe announced that he’s leaving the company, the latest in a string of executive-level departures from Facebook. But...
Samsung’s Odyssey+ VR headset claims 1233 PPI user-perceived resolution
Leaked two months ago by the FCC, Samsung’s HMD Odyssey+ Windows Mixed Reality headset became official today with a somewhat unexpected feature: a “user-perceived...
SuperData: Oculus Quest will mainstream VR in 2019, but AR will lead by 2021
Though 2016 was once described as the “year of VR” because that’s when consumer headsets became available, 2019 will be the year virtual reality...
Sixense will refund its VR controller backers, switch to enterprise
Sixense pioneered hand controllers for virtual reality applications in 2013, but the company hasn’t been able to produce its Stem consumer product for VR....
DevLab 2018 offers VR/AR artists an incubator and shot at funding
Two years ago, Oculus teamed up with VR promoter Kaleidoscope to create DevLab, an incubator for independent VR projects. Now they’re back to do...