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zSpace and Unity Announces XR Resources for Education
The Unity Educator Toolkit was created by Unity3D to integrate learning game development into the K-12 public curriculum. Now zSpace, which we’ve mentioned a few times, is joining in to the initiative...
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A walrus on virtual rollerskates
Jamie Hyneman is pitching a project to build prototype VR roller skates; not as a game but as a way to save your shins while using a VR headset. The design places motorized wheels under your heel and...
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Top Gun (1986) in 3D VR Promotion via Bigscreen
Until their last showing at 2am tonight, Bigscreen, Inc. is playing Top Gun in 3D through their VR application for Windows 10. It can be used with the Oculus Rift, SteamVR, and Windows Mixed Reality...
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CES 2018: HTC Teases new VIVE device announcement
In the run-up to CES 2018, the HTC Vive account on twitter tweeted an image teasing their press conference on Monday, January 8. #newyearsresolution#HTCVIVEpic.twitter.com/s29FcX8BPe— HTC VIVE...
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CES 2018: HTC announces Vive Pro and Vive Wireless Adapter
As it turns out, HTC's teasing of a new Vive product late last week was well warranted. Today, at their press conference before CES 2018, HTC announced two new hardware products—the Vive Pro and the...
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CES 2018: Lenovo Announces Mirage VR Camera and Untethered Motion-Tracking...
UPDATE (2018-01-09 7:38 PM EST): Lenovo has announced new pricing information for its Mirage Solo headset and Mirage VR Camera. In lieu of the specific pricing originally reported, the Mirage Camera...
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Tobii Eye Tracking Showed Impressive VR Headset Integration at CES
Last month in Tobii's suite at CES I was given a demonstration of a prototype VR headset that looked like any other HTC Vive - except for the ring of Tobii eye-tracking sensors inside and around each...
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Valve Supporting AMD's GPU-Powered TrueAudio Next In Latest Steam Audio Beta
Valve has announced support for AMD's TrueAudio Next technology in its Steam Audio SDK for developers. The partnership will allow game and VR application developers to reserve a portion of a GCN-based...
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Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 845 Mobile VR Reference Platform
Qualcomm has another mobile-related announcement ahead of MWC, introducing a new VR reference platform based on the Snapdragon 845 in collaboration with HTC. As the new Snapdragon 845 boasts much more...
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Tobii and Qualcomm Announce Collaboration on Mobile VR Headsets with...
Tobii and Qualcomm's collaboration in the VR HMD (head-mounted display) space is a convergence of two recent stories, with Tobii's impressing showing of a prototype HMD device at CES featuring their...
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GDC 2018: Qualcomm Talks Future of VR and AR with Upcoming Dev Kit
We have recently covered news of Qualcomm's ongoing VR/AR efforts (the two terms now combine as "XR", for eXtended reality), with news of the Snapdragon 845-powered reference HMD and more recently the...
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Mozilla is hoping you don't want to live in a material world
Mozilla is working on Firefox Reality, a browser with an interface specifically designed for AR and VR interaction. The source code for the browser is available already, you can follow the link to...
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NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft Collaborate on VirtualLink VR...
Today, NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft, members of the VirtualLink consortium, have announced the VirtualLink standard, which aims to unify physically connecting Virtual Reality headsets to...
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Facebook announces Oculus Quest All-in-One VR System
Today, at their Oculus Connect 5 developer conference, Facebook announced the Oculus Quest standalone VR headset. Oculus Quest (previously codenamed Santa Cruz) is similar to the Oculus Go launched...
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I want to put on my my my my my cyber-shoes
There is a very successful Kickstarter project by Cybershoes which are offering the first pair of ... well, cybershoes for walking around in VR games. The shoes strap over any normal pair of shoes and...
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