Game makers applaud Apple’s support for AR and VR
Apple surprised the emerging industries of augmented reality and virtual reality with broad support for the technologies at its Worldwide Developer Conference in San...
SteamVR and external GPUs are coming to Mac
Virtual realty has so far required a Windows-based PC with power chips from Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. Mac users have had to make the...
ManoMotion uses a single smartphone camera to capture your hand gestures for virtual reality
Virtual reality makes you feel like you’re in another world. But as soon as you try to use your hands, the illusion breaks. That’s...
Star Trek: Bridge Crew’s solo campaign is like posing mannequins in your basement
Ubisoft has another new VR game. This time, it’s all about space communists exploring the cosmos because they live in a post-scarcity society where...
Star Trek: Bridge Crew now comes with every HTC Vive VR headset
The final frontier is the latest experience that comes with HTC’s virtual reality headset. HTC announced this morning that it will begin giving away a...
Gumi invests in VR games startup Playsnak ahead of its first release
Gaming startup Playsnak closed its seed funding from Gumi Inc. just in time, as it plans on announcing its first VR game soon. Gumi’s $1.2...
Transformers roll out into VR in China
Hasbro and Dan Mintz’s Hollywood film studio DMG Entertainment are launching interactive Transformers virtual reality and augmented reality centers in China — a nation where...
Ready At Dawn leader hopes multiplayer VR game Echo Arena will be an esport
Ready At Dawn Studios broke a lot of “rules” about virtual reality with its Lone Echo game and its multiplayer companion Echo Arena. For one, it’s...
MindMaze offers VR treatment for stroke victims in the U.S.
Swiss startup MindMaze, which raised $100 million in funding, has launched its MindMaze Pro virtual reality treatment for stroke recovery patients in the U.S....
Google Daydream’s Star Wars VR experience touts PC-level graphics on mobile
The benefit of a tethered, desktop-powered virtual reality setup is that you can get significantly more visual fidelity from a PC with a GeForce...