Jahshaka Blog
Sony Confirms Next-Gen PSVR is Coming, New Controllers to Feature DualSense Tech
Sony has been awfully quiet about the follow-up to its PSVR headset, which was initially released back in October 2016. Today the company publicly announced it is indeed working on its next-generation VR headset for PS5 consoles. There’s only a few scraps of info for...
HP Partnership Expands Advanced VR Training
From utilities companies to first responders, more industries are adopting rich virtual training experiences for training purposes. There is a growing plethora of Industry 4.0 use cases for immersive technologies, and companies like Microsoft have partnered with...
Oculus Targeting Q1 2019 For Santa Cruz Release, Rift Ports Planned
Oculus is targeting Q1 2019 to launch its upcoming higher-end standalone VR headset, currently known by the code-name Santa Cruz. Multiple independent sources have said that Oculus has shared a Q1 timeline for wide release. The headset is designed to function on its...
NVIDIA Turing Propels VR Toward Full Immersion
Over the last few decades, VR experiences have gone from science fiction to research labs to inside homes and offices. But even today’s best VR experiences have yet to achieve full immersion. NVIDIA’s new Turing GPUs are poised to take VR a big step closer to that...
Magic Leap ships out AR headsets to developers, report says
Magic Leap has begun to ship out its AR headset, the highly anticipated Magic Leap One, to software developers, Bloomberg reported Friday. "We have an early access developers program, and those partners have hardware," a Maigc Leap representative told CNET. "All...
Jahshaka 0.6.0 Alpha Release
The industry leading VR authoring toolkit, Jahshaka, has released version 0.6.0 alpha which includes a major overhaul of its asset and material frameworks. It sets a solid foundation for the way we store and share models moving ahead, and brings support for a wide...
Apple’s working on a powerful, wireless headset for both AR, VR
The headset, which would straddle the two technologies and tap into Apple’s own chips, is slated for 2020. It’s the biggest sign of Apple’s interest in virtual reality. Apple CEO Tim Cook has nothing but praise for augmented reality, saying it's a technology that's...
NVIDIA RTX Technology Realizes Dream of Real-Time Cinematic Rendering
NVIDIA today announced NVIDIA RTX™, a ray-tracing technology that brings real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to content creators and game developers. NVIDIA RTX is the product of 10 years of work in computer graphics algorithms and GPU architectures. It consists of...
HTC Vive Pro premium VR arrives April 5 for $799
How much would you pay for high-end VR? HTC is betting $799. (UK and AU prices aren't available yet, but the equivalent is roughly AU$1,040 or £575 converted.) But there's a catch: This time, that's only for part of the package. The HTC Vive Pro, a new PC-connected VR...
Jahshaka 0.5.0 Alpha Release
The Jahshaka development team has been hard at work on the Jahshaka 0.5.0 Alpha Release and its now available for download. In addition to a major code cleanup, we have updated the player, editor and world manager with new features, added an asset module and launched...
Our New Virtual Reality Rig
The Jahshaka team has a new toy and we are excited to share it with you! We have assembled our own Virtual Reality (VR) Rig to aid with Jahshaka development. Not only is it really cool to look at but, it provides the extremely high-performance speed needed to run Jahshaka effectively.