Author Archives: Sam Ochanji
Spatial, Nreal and Qualcomm Partner on Holographic Collaborative AR
This week, Spatial revealed a new initiative in partnership with various companies as part of a bid to speed up the mass-market adoption of 5G-optimized Augmented Reality collaboration tools. With…
Top 5 Haptic VR Devices Set to Launch in 2020
Haptic feedback or simply “haptics” is currently one of the fastest growing immersive frontiers in the industry. It entails deploying various technologies to simulate a sense of touch and even…
Standalone Headset Manufacturer LYNX Raised $2 Million in 2019
The French XR startup LYNX, which participated in Qualcomm’s hardware accelerator program, raised $ 2million in 2019. The startup is using the Snapdragon XR2 chipset which is made for XR…
Valve Index VR Headsets to be in Stock Again Ahead of the ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Launch
The Valve Index has been sold out for some weeks now. This week, the company finally confirmed that shortages of the headset have been occasioned by the coronavirus health crisis…
Latest Snapchat Filters Transform the Floor into Lava
With Snapchat’s latest AR filters, you can conjure realistic-looking lava flows or floods. Snapchat Lava and Flooding Filters The latest batch of Immersive Snapchat Lenses enable you to drastically change…
Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days for HoloLens Set Begin in May
Microsoft will be gathering Mixed Reality developers in Redmond for the second time. Microsoft Mixed Reality Dev Days Microsoft has announced it is planning to host two Mixed Reality Dev…
XR Marks the Spot: Learn How 5G Networks Are Driving the Future of XR at GTC
Discover how NVIDIA RTX powers virtual, augmented and mixed reality to accelerate a new era of computer graphics. Virtual reality is about to get real. 5G mobile networks are bringing…
Sandbox VR Developing an SDK that Will Enable Anyone to Create for its VR Arcade Platform
Sandbox VR is hoping to create better content for its high-end virtual reality arcades and putting third-party developers in the driving seat. Sandbox VR is building new SDK that will…
HTC Teases Vive Proton Headset Concept
On the same day that HTC unveiled its new modular Vive Cosmos lineup, firmly establishing the Vive and the Vive Cosmos lineup as PC VR headsets, HTC also showed a…
HTC Unveils a New Cosmos Lineup
HTC has unveiled a new lineup of Cosmos virtual reality headsets. These are the Cosmos, the Cosmos Play, Cosmos Elite and Cosmos XR. These four are the successors to HTC’s…