Vive manufacturer HTC creates $100M fund for virtual reality startups
HTC is a company that isn’t afraid to leap into new spaces. It built the first Android phone, and it just released the first...
3 powerful use cases in VR’s thrilling new frontier
When functional mainstream VR first emerged in the early 90s, the visual fidelity of the images was poor, the processing power driving the experience was inadequate and the magnetic head-tracking was lacking—and lagging —way behind what was required for a convincingly immersive experience.
Oculus Rift delays are hurting VR spending, but it’s not a long-term problem
Many customers are still waiting for Oculus VR to ship their preordered Rift headsets, and every day that those consumers don’t have their virtual...
The Foo Show is already exploring the future of virtual media
Virtual reality is changing games. You can see that the second you put on the headset and boot up a shooter like Hover Junkers....
How Rothenberg Ventures got ahead of the VR investing craze
With virtual reality now seemingly everywhere, it’s easy to think that the technology came out of nowhere. Facebook’s $2 billion acquisition of Oculus Rift two years ago...
Virtual reality justifies those ludicrous 17-inch ‘portable desktops’
Gaming laptops are a consumer-electronics category that don’t make a whole lot of sense anymore. They’re expensive, bulky, and hot as hell. That’s why...
Hover Junkers is virtual reality’s best multiplayer game
While the rest of the industry is figuring out virtual reality, I’m going to continue enjoying an HTC Vive game that already knows how...
Watch how HTC Vive’s Windlands will have you swinging like Spider-Man in VR
Developers and designers are still figuring out movement in this crazy virtual reality thing. Some early games have you walking around in a space...
I sat on my cat because of VR
I’ve already hurt myself in virtual reality, and now I’m hurting animals. Please don’t call PETA. I sat on my cat because I was...
Here’s how hard it is to make a mixed-reality trailer for HTC Vive VR games
Virtual reality is a difficult technology to demonstrate to people, but mixed reality is changing that. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy thing to...