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Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset
Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up in the air though, making any shred of...
HTC Partnership Aims to Bring Vive to “hundreds of millions” of Internet Cafe Users
HTC formally debuted the Vive VR headset to Chinese developers at a packed event last Friday in Beijing, China. The event featured speakers from HTC, Valve, and notable developers working with the Vive. One of the announcements to come from the event was a partnership...
Augmented and virtual reality to grow to $150B by 2020
The augmented reality and virtual reality markets have yet to get off the ground. But market advisor Digi-Capital estimates that the combined markets will reach $150 billion by 2020. Digi-Capital managing director Tim Merel believes that augmented reality — where you...
Nokia’s $60,000 VR Camera Goes on a Drone Test Flight
At 9.3 pounds, Nokia’s Ozo VR camera is impressively compact. Not only can the device be handheld if need be, but it can also take to the skies as a drone payload. We’ve got the first look at Ozo’s take-off. Given that Nokia is soon to offer a camera handle for Ozo,...
Pro Drivers Go Headset-to-Headset in VR Race
In a race that fuses video-game technology and real world driving skill, two professional drivers, on two separate but identical tracks, have raced against each other while wearing virtual reality headsets attached to their crash helmets. The race, which took place on...
Media Molecule Confirms ‘Dreams’ is Coming to PlayStation VR
After a full week of surprises and sustained PlayStation VR announcements during Paris Games Week, seems we’re not done yet. Media Molecule, the studio behind Little Big Planet, have confirmed that their forthcoming game ‘Dreams‘ is to receive PlayStation VR support....
Can Facebook’s Oculus make virtual reality a reality?
Palmer Luckey hoped to demonstrate the "joy" of virtual reality when he posed on the cover of Time magazine last month. Luckey -- a Thomas Edison-esque figure thanks to Facebook's $2 billion buyout of his startup Oculus last year -- floats above a beach wearing VR...
The Nokia OZO is a Spherical Camera for Capturing VR Imagery
Nokia has announced that they will be releasing ‘OZO’, the first commercially available virtual reality camera, later this year. The company says the device has been “designed and built for professional content creators, and [is] the first in a planned portfolio of...
Nvidia announces GameWorks VR: smarter graphics for virtual reality
Nvidia has revealed a new set of tools for game developers working with graphics for use in virtual reality under the GameWorks VR label. The set of programming tools and graphics engine updates aims to ensure best possible performance for computers that deliver...
Valve’s VR headset is here
HTC has just announced the Vive, a virtual reality headset developed in collaboration with Valve. It will be available to consumers later this year, with a developer edition coming out this spring. The company has promised to have a significant presence at the Game...
Magic Leap is betting more than half a billion dollars that it will dazzle you with its approach to creating 3-D imagery
Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it. I’m sitting behind a workbench in a white-walled room in Dania Beach, Florida, in the office of a secretive startup...