2022-09-06 17:58
Most people view the Oculus Quest 2 as a gaming device. But there are a lot of productivity apps available on VR headsets to help you make the most of your work day and get a lot more accomp… Read More
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2022-09-05 11:51
Apple’s long-rumored VR headset and AR glasses could actually involve more than just two devices, with at least three of the head-mounted devices apparently in the works.
Rumors have c… Read More
2022-09-02 07:33
Lenovo Glasses T1 is the company’s answer to making this product category ready for the masses. The design is quite simple, and there’s nothing revolutionary about it. They&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-08-28 15:45
Project Cambria has been in the works for quite some time. The VR headset was first teased at the Connect conference in October 2021 and since then, little bits and pieces of information hav… Read More
2022-07-07 16:28
Meta Platforms Inc.’s upcoming high-end headset for virtual and augmented reality will be called the Meta Quest Pro, according to code findings inside the company’s iPhone app fo… Read More
2022-07-06 12:24
These really do seem like the most visually impressive way to do VR.
Pimax has increased the refresh rate of its Pimax 8KX headsets from 90Hz to 120Hz. When Pimax refers to a headset as 8K… Read More
2022-07-04 11:13
Virtual reality is more popular than it’s ever been, and as technology continues to evolve, affordable VR experiences are more accessible than ever. For years, the common wisdom was th… Read More
2022-07-01 20:51
Meta’s Quest 2 VR headset has remained immensely popular as the global shipments for VR headsets jumped 241.6 percent during the first quarter of 2022
Meta (formerly Facebook) which ha… Read More
2022-06-06 09:04
The virtual reality headset wars seem to be heating up with Pimax announcing the Pimax Crystal. This new VR headset marries QLED with mini-LED technology that Pimax says will “take cla… Read More
2022-05-23 10:09
Qualcomm is introducing a wireless version of its augmented reality Smart Viewer, a reference design that manufacturers could adapt into commercial headsets. The Wireless AR Smart Viewer up… Read More
2022-04-21 10:30
Half-price PS Plus Premium if you’re willing to commit to the new service for a decade.
After a couple of months of speculation, PlayStation finally let the cat out of the bag last wee… Read More
2022-04-14 12:03
Anyone rocking an Oculus Quest or Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset is about to enjoy a brand new update (opens in new tab), v39, with some very cool features. They include multitasking… Read More
2022-04-10 10:21
Owners of the Meta Quest 2 VR headset know how much fun it is. They also know that the battery can run out all too quickly; and that most battery packs are heavy. Not so with the $23 Nenotoh… Read More
2022-03-23 18:35
That in addition to the market growing almost 100% year-over-year.
What you need to know
Research firm IDC says that the Meta Quest 2 captured 78% of all AR/VR headset sales in 2021.
The AR/… Read More
2022-03-03 18:00
Metaverse is the latest buzzword in the tech industry. While the general public’s understanding of the concept may still be limited, tech companies see it as the place to be. The hype… Read More
2022-02-26 19:46
One of the most appealing aspects of Horizon Worlds—the Meta Quest 2 virtual reality app that launched to the broader public in December and now attracts more than 300,000 users monthl… Read More
2022-02-17 20:15
Shipments will begin no earlier than Q4 2022.
By the end of 2022, there’s going to be an abundance of new virtual reality (VR) headsets on the market to suit all tastes and requirement… Read More
2021-12-29 17:43
Let’s start the New Year’s celebrations off early with the announcement of the trio of PlayStation Plus games you’ll be able to enjoy on Tuesday, January 4. Available to ad… Read More
2021-10-29 15:11
The company will release the device sometime next year.
Facebook is working on a new high-end VR headset codenamed Project Cambria. The company teased the device during its recent Connect c… Read More
2021-10-26 09:03
The next-gen VR headset is coming
We may have finally seen what the new VR headset that will replace the Oculus Quest 2 looks like. Convincing-looking leaked tutorial videos are showing off… Read More
2021-10-19 13:21
We’ve been hearing a lot about Apple’s mixed reality headset recently, and there’s still no clue as to when Apple will actually introduce this new device. In a new investor… Read More
2021-09-29 15:03
References in Valve’s code point towards the prototype
Valve could have a second VR headset in development with a standalone design similar to what’s currently offered by Faceboo… Read More
2021-09-16 11:16
It’s been months since we first got details on the HTC Vive Pro 2 VR headset back in May. VR fans waiting in anticipation for the Vive Pro 2 kit to be available can now preorder the en… Read More
2021-09-14 11:56
Expect the popularity of VR sex games to increase inexplicably
Editor’s take: Exactly how many people will want to pay over a grand for a VR headset just so they can lie down whil… Read More
2021-09-10 19:34
The term was coined by writer Neal Stephenson in the 1992 dystopian novel “Snow Crash.” In it, the metaverse refers to an immersive digital environment where people interact as a… Read More
2021-09-08 17:43
We’ve found all the latest information on the Oculus Quest 3, here’s the definitive guide for what to expect in the next virtual reality headset.
With the Oculus Quest 2 coming o… Read More
2021-09-03 16:04
Apple’s first augmented and virtual reality headset will need to be tethered to an iPhone for its most advanced features, much like non-cellular Apple Watch models, new chip details su… Read More
2021-09-01 15:34
September’s PlayStation Plus free games seemed to have leaked with Hitman 2 and Predator: Hunting Grounds for PlayStation 4, and Overcooked! All You Can Eat as the PS5 bonus game. The… Read More
2021-08-30 14:32
Facebook’s experimental smart glasses use the same camera sensor as the Oculus Quest 2.
It’s been close to a year since Facebook first announced Project Aria, a research effort t… Read More
2021-07-31 08:40
Generate electricity while interacting with your favorite games and apps.
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a wearable device that generates power when touc… Read More
2021-07-31 08:38
A stepping stone ‘towards full augmented reality glasses,’ says Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook’s next hardware launch will be its long-awaited Ray-Ban ‘smart glasses,&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-06-17 12:45
Bloomberg say the PlayStation VR successor will be out “in the holiday period next year”
A report from Bloomberg that’s mostly about LCD panels and VR also contains a… Read More
2020-12-05 14:51
Cognixion’s upcoming augmented reality headset integrated a brain-computer interface to give a voice to people without one.
Cognixion today announced that it’s bringing to market… Read More
2020-11-12 15:14
Elyne Legarnisson walks away with the 2020 Lumen XR Award for her work in physical and digital interactions.
Media artist Elyne Legarnisson has created a multi-sensory experience that merges… Read More
2020-11-11 13:45
Shortly before the official market launch of the PS5, we received another detail about the next-generation console. As Sony Interactive Entertainment confirmed, the PS5 will be delivered wit… Read More
2020-11-10 13:23
Standalone, PC or console? It all depends on who you are and how much you want to spend.
VR in 2020, in a world where people are more distant from each other than ever, has taken on a differ… Read More
2020-11-07 09:37
An image making the rounds online shows a Sony PlayStation 5 console overheating while on display at a Best Buy retail store.
Next Thursday, November 12, Sony will officially launch its next… Read More
2020-11-06 13:41
PlayStation Plus members will be able to enjoy a special new offering on the PS5 console – the PlayStation Plus Collection. PS5 console owners with PlayStation Plus will be able to re… Read More
2020-10-29 10:20
What an amazing ride! Earlier this year, Microsoft and Oculus started shipping conformant OpenXR runtimes to all customers, with SteamVR and HTC previewing OpenXR support soon after.&n&hell…Read More
2020-10-28 16:55
PS Plus members who own a PS5 console will get the PS5 version of Bugsnax; all PS Plus members get Middle-earth: Shadow of War and Hollow Knight: Voidheart Edition as part of November’… Read More
2020-10-24 16:25
The DecaGear 1 is a 4K VR headsets with two cameras to track your facial expressions: One for your eyes, one for your mouth.
Megadodo Games, a Singapore-based development studio, is gearing… Read More
2020-10-18 12:37
Pre-orders will be available soon as part of the official Kickstarter campaign.
The Oculus Quest 2 has finally arrived and so far we’re loving Facebook’s new-and-improved standal… Read More
2020-10-08 22:21
A radical new approach to 6-DoF MR and VR powered by your smartphone. Includes two fully-tracked controllers and a Unity plugin.
Story
All-new ZapBox is a revolutionary step in Zappar&rs&hell…Read More
2020-09-30 20:30
PlayStation Plus subscribers can claim two free PS4 games starting October 6.
PlayStation has revealed the next pair of free PS4 games for PlayStation Plus subscribers. Starting October 6, m… Read More
2020-09-15 11:21
Facebook has inadvertently revealed key information about its next VR headset, the Oculus Quest 2, ahead of an expected unveiling at the Facebook Connect conference later this week.
As discu… Read More
2020-09-12 07:49
While a release date and price for the PlayStation 5 remains unknown, despite Microsoft revealing the same information for the Xbox Series S and Series X just this week, the box contents for… Read More
2020-08-29 16:16
An internet post suggests that the PlayStation 5 may not have a simultaneous release date worldwide as originally thought.
As the year draws closer to the holiday season, players are growing… Read More
2020-08-28 20:48
After recent restructuring announcements earlier this month, Mozilla has now released an update regarding its Mozilla Mixed Reality program.
The company announced that going forward, it will… Read More
2020-08-26 16:42
Chicken dinners and shoryukens are on the PS Plus menu this September. Take on 99 other competitors in PUBG: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or challenge the world’s greatest warri… Read More
2020-08-26 10:24
Microsoft has today unveiled the improvements coming to August’s Xbox One update (“rolling out soon”), including large changes to the Guide, Activity Feed, and a whole rang… Read More
2020-08-26 08:02
Amazon is rolling out a new augmented reality shopping tool, Room Decorator, that will allow you to see furniture and another home décor in your own space. While the retailer had expe… Read More
2020-08-21 21:37
The goal is to bolster Apple’s work on AR.
Apple acquired Camerai, an Israeli startup, between 2018 and 2019. It’s a computer vision company and it has been helping Apple in its… Read More
2020-08-19 18:53
As gyms around the globe struggle, Supernatural is offering a family plan to help you get back into shape.
WITHIN’s Supernatural is a VR fitness experience designed to take full advant… Read More
2020-08-19 10:16
Existing owners who don’t want to use a Facebook account have until 2023 before losing “full functionality.”
Starting in October, new Oculus VR headset owners will need a F… Read More
2020-08-18 11:48
Sony isn’t going to spend $750 million to get timed exclusivity for any game on PlayStation 5, even games like Grand Theft Auto 6.
Reports say that Sony has made pricey timed exclusivi… Read More
2020-08-17 12:11
It’s like you’re really there! Sort of…
With many of us working from home, virtual meetings have become the norm. But one challenging aspect of these online meetings led L… Read More
2020-08-16 12:45
PS5 will be getting its own next-gen PSVR, according to leaked information in new PlayStation job listing for a VR development role.
The next generation of PlayStation consoles is around the… Read More
2020-08-14 11:58
Nreal’s smartphone-powered consumer AR headset finally arrive this month in Korea.
Available now for pre-order, the Nreal Light AR smart glasses connect with compatible Android smartph… Read More
2020-08-11 20:55
Xbox Series X won’t be delayed alongside Halo Infinite.
Coinciding with news that Halo Infinite has been delayed, Microsoft has narrowed down the release window for its next-gen consol… Read More
2020-08-11 10:03
PlayStation Plus & Now games are finally purchasable outside of a subscription, solving a longstanding problem for Sony fans once and for all.
Subscribers to PlayStation Plus a… Read More
2020-08-08 18:50
PlayStation 5’s new Pulse 3D Wireless Headset is being marketed specifically at Sony’s next-gen console, but you’ll be able to use it on your PlayStation 4, as well as comp… Read More
2020-07-27 20:04
Play Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout starting Aug 4 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered tomorrow.
An all-new multiplayer party battler and a remastered blockbuster headline P… Read More
2020-07-01 16:57
A team researchers at Facebook have created a virtual reality headset that’s not much larger than a chunky pair of sunglasses, Ars Technica reports.
The futuristic shades use a special… Read More
2020-06-30 09:37
Along with the most recent NBA title and arguably the best entry in the recent Tomb Raider reboot saga, PS Plus subscribers will also get Erica for free.
This month marks the 10th anniversar… Read More
2020-06-24 08:21
Today I woke up to read this letter from Oculus, sent to me because I’m a developer:
Hello,
Today, we announced our plans to sunset Oculus Go as we focus on driving forward the fu… Read More
2020-06-23 16:00
July is a bit of a strange month when it comes to the timing of PlayStation Plus’s free games. Normally these things are announced on the last Wednesday of the month, but because this… Read More
2020-06-20 11:49
PlayStation Plus’ monthly free games are make-or-break for a lot of players, so here’s some ideas for great games Sony could release in July.
Last week, Sony finally unveiled the… Read More
2020-06-20 11:30
Over the past several decades, video gaming technology has progressed phenomenally. When we think back to the days of playing basic games on the Atari, Nintendo Entertainment System, or play… Read More
2020-06-10 18:07
We’re only halfway through 2020, and Sony has already revealed several details regarding the PS5, its next-generation console. We’ve learned about the console’s technical s… Read More
2020-05-29 13:19
The HTC Vive Wireless Adapter is one of the best upgrades you can make to your VR experience for room-scale play, but the experience isn’t error-free.
No power to the headset
If you fi… Read More
2020-05-27 12:19
After last month’s extremely disappointing lineup of games in the monthly PS Plus Free Games, PS Plus subscribers had very low expectation’s from June’s free game line up b… Read More
2020-05-26 13:35
Virtual reality (VC) headsets are all the rage these days. They offer a more immersive experience to the gaming world. HTC Vive – the “king of virtual reality… Read More
2020-05-25 16:15
Virtual reality (VC) headsets are all the rage these days. They offer a more immersive experience to the gaming world. HTC Vive – the “king of virtual reality” –… Read More
2020-05-22 17:30
Virtual reality (VC) headsets are all the rage these days. They offer a more immersive experience to the gaming world. HTC Vive – the “king of virtual reality” –… Read More
2020-05-17 18:39
Because for a limited time, and assuming the internet doesn’t melt (see below), Epic Games is offering Grand Theft Auto V Premium Edition (Win) absolutely free. Regular price: $30.
Thi… Read More
2020-05-14 15:17
One simple reason VR isn’t more popular today: You need special hardware to experience it, yet most people haven’t been persuaded to buy a headset — and many of those who d… Read More
2020-05-14 10:26
Starting with the HoloLens 2 Emulator (Windows Holographic, version 2004), you can use a Windows Mixed Reality headset and motion controllers to view and interact with the HoloLens 2 Emulato… Read More
2020-05-13 12:13
Spatial is a startup that enables people to meet through augmented or virtual reality. It’s a little similar to the now defunct Facebook Spaces, except it has much broader support… Read More
2020-05-12 11:07
In the XR communities, the hype for the Qualcomm XR2 reference design is high, because it will bring many innovations to standalone XR headsets: better graphics, eye tracking, passthrough vi… Read More
2020-04-24 06:00
In the last few years, astronomers have begun to realize that our solar system may be visited by interstellar objects more often than we thought. And now, researchers at CNRS in France and U… Read More
2020-03-28 19:33
What are the telling signs that you may have the novel coronavirus which causes Covid-19?
The main list of acute symptoms at this time is actually quite short and can appear anywhere from tw… Read More
2020-03-19 15:47
At 50 percent smaller by volume than a typical lithium-ion battery, Samsung’s prototype solid-state pouch cells could enable 500-mile electric car ranges and cycle lives over 1,000 cha… Read More
2020-01-24 22:06
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spott… Read More
2020-01-04 11:08
New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus c… Read More
2019-12-12 06:57
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy, called MAMBO… Read More
2019-12-04 00:31
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish i… Read More
2019-11-29 07:08
From the tallest peak in Hawaii to a high plateau in the Andes, some of the biggest telescopes on Earth will point towards a faint smudge of light over the next few weeks. The same patch of… Read More
2019-11-27 23:45
Researchers at Australia’s Deakin University say they’ve managed to use common industrial polymers to create solid electrolytes, opening the door to double-density solid-state li… Read More
2019-11-27 22:39
There might be cracks in space-time, but humanity’s telescopes can’t see them.
The cracks, if they exist, are old — remnants of a time shortly after the Big Bang when the u… Read More
2019-11-26 20:08
Perhaps the greatest discovery to come from the “Golden Age of General Relativity” (ca. 1960 to 1975) was the realization that a supermassive black hole (SMBH) exists at the cent… Read More
2019-11-25 10:13
A woman sits at a computer, video chatting with her young son while she gently pats an interface on a separate screen. In response, a wireless patch on the child’s back vibrates in a p… Read More
2019-11-19 08:32
In some ways, the most Earth-like world in our solar system (other than Earth, obviously) is Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. And now, astronomers from NASA JPL and Arizona State Universi… Read More
2019-11-18 00:55
It’s hard to imagine the Arctic without sea ice.
But according to a new study by UCLA climate scientists, human-caused climate change is on track to make the Arctic Ocean functionally… Read More
2019-11-14 19:43
Scientists have redefined the conditions which could make an exoplanet potentially habitable, narrowing down the number of worlds that could become targets in the search for life beyond Eart… Read More
2019-11-12 11:10
When Chevrolet re-introduced the Blazer name last year, there followed a lot of use of the word “Camaro” in the hoopla. Chevy very much wanted to tie the Blazer in with the Camar… Read More
2019-11-10 15:07
Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing. The exoplanet has… Read More
2019-11-09 08:36
Wielding state-of-the-art technologies and techniques, a team of Clemson University astrophysicists has added a novel approach to quantifying one of the most fundamental laws of the universe… Read More
2019-11-04 12:46
When Voyager 2 reached Neptune in 1989, just 12 years after setting off on its historic journey through the solar system, it discovered six new moons, took the first images of the planet&rsq&hell…Read More
2019-11-01 12:07
Black holes are an important part of how astrophysicists make sense of the universe—so important that scientists have been trying to build a census of all the black holes in the Milky… Read More
2019-10-30 22:19
Scientists have spotted signs of water as the object, 2I/Borisov, streaks towards the Sun.
Astronomers have spotted signs of water spraying off comet 2I/Borisov, which is flying towards the… Read More
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