by Jahshaka | Feb 13, 2016 | Industry
There appears to be nothing virtual about Google’s interest in VR. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times (paywalls) this past week, Google is looking to expand its virtual reality offering with a new headset. Currently, the...
by Jahshaka | Feb 11, 2016 | Industry
Game developers can now build VR experiences across all platforms, including SteamVR. At the inaugural Vision VR/AR Summit in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell announced that SteamVR will support Unity Technologies’ Unity 5...
by Jahshaka | Feb 7, 2016 | Industry
Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here’s what it looks like. The VR renaissance has inspired flocks of...
by Jahshaka | Feb 7, 2016 | Industry
Tech giants are investing billions, but the startup expects best content to come from indie studios. Venice, Calif.-based startup Wevr is building what it hopes will become the YouTube of virtual reality. The company has raised over $25 million from strategic...
by Jahshaka | Jan 30, 2016 | Industry
Apple’s latest clandestine endeavor could be in virtual reality. The Cupertino, California, tech giant has assembled a secret research group focused on virtual and augmented reality, according to the Financial Times. Apple’s team, which has hundreds of...
by Jahshaka | Jan 27, 2016 | Industry
During today’s earnings call for the first fiscal quarter of 2016 (fourth calendar quarter), analyst Gene Munster asked Tim Cook to share his thoughts on virtual reality in an effort to get a hint on whether or not that’s a feature Apple is working on for...
