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The DeanBeat: The road ahead in VR and AR will have two steps forward, one step back

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 16, 2016
6 min

John Riccitiello, CEO of Unity Technologies, predicted that tech journalists would start gleefully writing that the virtual reality revolution is over because sales of...

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Orah 4i camera enables 4K livestreaming for 360-degree videos in VR

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 12, 2016
2 min

VR platforms still don’t have a lot of videos that take full advantage of modern headsets, but one company has introduced a new device...

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2 min

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Ultrahaptics shows off sense of touch in virtual reality

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 10, 2016
3 min

Ultrahaptics had an touching demo at the VRX virtual reality conference last week. It used ultrasound technology so that I could feel things in VR...

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3 min

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VR developers begin sharing some of the ‘hard truths’ of virtual reality’s rough economics

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 10, 2016
3 min

It’s tough to make a virtual reality game, but it is even tougher to make a profitable virtual reality game. And now developers are...

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3 min

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You have 60 minutes left to preorder the first season of the Foo Show — VR’s incredible talk show

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 9, 2016
2 min

Jimmy Fallon might shake like a leaf as he holds the Nintendo Switch on The Tonight Show, but games are never going to get the bulk...

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2 min

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Despite slow 2016, VR is still forecast to hit $14 billion in consumer software sales in 2020

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 7, 2016
3 min

Market researcher SuperData scaled back its virtual reality forecast for 2016, particularly after a disappointing launch of the PlayStation VR headsets. But it still...