Facebook’s Oculus adds new social games and video features to Samsung Gear VR
Oculus today announced a slew of new features for the Samsung Gear VR. The Facebook-owned company is unsurprisingly focusing on social, and in this...
SuperData trims virtual reality revenue outlook for 2016 by 30%
Virtual reality is not going to have quite as big of a 2016 as one research firm was originally predicting. SuperData is trimming its prediction...
The guided missile technology that makes HoloLens work
Microsoft’s augmented reality development kit costs $3,000, and that’s because it shares some components that you’d normally find in spacecraft, guided missiles, and drones....
Oculus teases VR card battler similar to Yu-Gi-Oh: ‘Get ready for something even better’
Humans have played cards since the 9th century Imperial China, and we might keep doing it even when we upload our brains into virtual...
Why positional tracking for mobile virtual reality is so damn hard
AMSTERDAM — Consumers haven’t even had the chance to buy some of the most promising virtual reality devices yet, but the industry is already...
Oculus’s Gear VR boss: Samsung Galaxy S7 beats the S7 Edge for virtual reality
If you don’t know which new Samsung Galaxy phone to get for mobile virtual reality, one of the authorities on the subject has weighed...
Samsung arms every Unpacked attendee with Gear VR to watch its press conference
BARCELONA, Spain — In a few minutes, Samsung will be huffing and puffing about its new Galaxy smartphones at its annual Unpacked press conference...
Game developers bet mobile virtual reality has mass-market appeal
For the last graph, if I read it as a broad generalization and implication of weakness —————> Finally, many women (in general) hate single-player VR experiences during social events. They feel isolated from the people around them and won’t enjoy their time in VR. But if you give them a multiplayer VR experience, that changes. You can expect that a lot of early VR developers will focus on social experiences as they try to bring in a diverse audience. ————— I'd at least re attribute and throw a claims in there
Oculus VR guru John Carmack leads crucial position-tracking development for mobile VR
Oculus VR has one of its biggest brains working on a feature that could make mobile virtual reality even more impressive than its Rift...
Google reportedly plans to release a Cardboard successor like Samsung’s Gear VR this year
Google is planning to release a new virtual reality headset for smartphones this year, pegged as a successor to its Google Cardboard platform and...