Digi-Capital: Over $4.1 billion invested in AR and VR in 2019
Digi-Capital’s AR/VR Analytics Platform tracked $4.1 billion in AR/VR investment in 2019, the third-highest virtual reality investment and augmented reality investment year on record...
The VR world doesn’t need 4 Vive Cosmos headsets or 2 Proton glasses
I’m a huge fan of hardware experimentation and prototyping — enough to enjoy looking back at abandoned designs and forgotten products that either never...
HTC teases Vive Proton ‘display headset’ concept for 5G smartphones
Now that its Vive and Vive Cosmos families have been firmly established as PC-tethered virtual reality headsets, HTC is tentatively looking toward a future...
Japan Display launches 1058ppi 2.1-inch screens for smaller VR glasses
Two of this year’s most important evolutions of VR glasses involve increasing their display resolution and reducing their size — changes that Japan Display...
Microsoft: VR is big on Windows, but Xbox would need ‘a bunch of work’
Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality initiative may have brought multiple VR headsets and a substantial quantity of VR software to the PC platform, but the...
CES 2020 proved VR and AR are thriving — and moving into automobiles
Virtual and augmented reality have had a rough few years: Pundits tried to proclaim VR “dead” despite growing consumer interest and sales, while AR’s...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...
Qualcomm interview: Snapdragon XR’s future, from wired to 5G, VR to AR
Day three of Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit is a big one for mixed reality — VR, AR, and XR — thanks to the...
Vader Immortal proved VR ‘experiences’ are just underdeveloped games
Vader Immortal was supposed to be a big deal. Developed by Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB, the three-episode Star Wars VR series was described by famed writer...
Vive Cosmos VR headset has an inexcusable flaw — horrid tracking
Virtual reality isn’t the massive business that many of us thought it would turn into back in 2015 and 2016. But it’s still chugging...