mobile vr Archives

Oculus mobile VR leader leaves Facebook

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 22, 2019
1 min

There’s a changing of the guard in the leadership at Oculus VR, the division that Facebook acquired for $3 billion in 2014. Max Cohen,...

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One of Nintendo's Labo VR Toy-Cons is a bird controller.

Mobile VR’s dying gasps mean new life for standalone and tethered VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 10, 2019
5 min

Even if you were expecting this news, the latest research confirms it: “High-performance” VR platforms are increasing in popularity while “mobile VR” is declining. Users,...

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Newzoo: AR has a far bigger opportunity on mobile than VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 27, 2019
3 min

Virtual reality is clunky. Augmented reality is less so. And so it makes sense that AR has a bigger opportunity on mobile devices than...

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3 min

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story as rendered with Google Seurat.

Google open-sources Seurat rendering tool that enables high-detail mobile VR

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 7, 2018
2 min

Offering a tethered VR-like experience on completely standalone headsets is about to become easier for developers, as Seurat — a Google pre-rendering tool teased...

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Samsung's Gear VR headset and Oculus-powered controller.

Hands-on with the Samsung Gear VR controller

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 29, 2017
3 min

Samsung launched a virtual reality controller today for its Gear VR mobile headset to go with the new Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone also introduced...

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HTC is working on a new kind of mobile VR headset

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 15, 2017
2 min

Smartphone maker HTC is working on a new kind of mobile virtual reality headset, according to a story from CNET. Chialin Chang, chief financial officer at Taiwan-based HTC,...