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PS5 release date, specs, news, and rumors for Sony’s PlayStation 5
It's official! The next-generation PlayStation console is called the PS5 (PlayStation 5) and it's landing at the end of 2020. In recent months, Sony has been drip-feeding us juicy titbits such as an official PS5 release window, name and a few details about features....
Goldman Sachs: VR and AR “Will Be the Next Generation Computing Platform”
Many following the resurgence of VR starting with Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter have bet their careers that VR and AR will be a disruptive technology, but sometimes it takes buy-in from one of the world’s largest and most influential investment banks to prove to the rest...
Google is reportedly working on an actual virtual reality headset
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...
Why Valve’s Partnership With Unity Is Important to Virtual Reality
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...
Unreal Engine Will Soon Let You Build VR inside VR
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...
Wevr Raises $25 Million to Launch the YouTube of Virtual Reality
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...
Apple said to have secret virtual-reality team
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 staff, has been...
Apple CEO Tim Cook: Virtual Reality is Really Cool, Has Interesting Applications
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 future...
VR is the most fun way to blow people’s minds top comedians say
Virtual reality is officially a funny business. “It’s the most fun way to blow people’s minds,” according to comedian Rob Huebel, one of the funny folk embracing the comic potential of VR. Huebel and regular on-screen partner Paul Scheer appear...
VR porn lends a hand
It was getting a little awkward. Two nipple-pierced brunettes, completely naked, were all over me. They promised me a blow job I wouldn’t forget. But I couldn’t forget I was in a crowded suite on the 34th floor of the Cosmopolitan, a fancy hotel on the Las...
Google forms virtual reality division as Facebook rivalry heats up
Google has formed a division to focus on virtual reality, a move that comes in the face of growing competition from Facebook and its subsidiary Oculus. Google CEO Sundar Pichai has appointed one of his deputies, Clay Bavor, to run the division. Google declined further...