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Google Is Making A VR Headset Similar To Gear VR, Reports Say
Google is getting very serious about virtual reality. According to a report made by the Wall Street Journal, Google is reportedly working on a brand new kind of virtual reality…
Samsung Is Opening A Virtual Reality Studio In New York
Samsung has announced at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 that it is opening a virtual reality studio in New York to produce new VR experiences. Like early VR studios such…
Apple Hires Top VR Expert To Join The Likes of Oculus, Samsung, and HTC
With a handful of recent VR company buyouts Apple has undertaken, it shows that the Cupertino tech giant is showing its interest in virtual reality. And to spice up the…
Facebook to open Oculus VR research facility in Pittsburgh
Facebook is about to break ground on Pittsburgh as it establishes a facility dedicated to Oculus VR research efforts in the said American city. The company will open a 20,000-square-foot…
Leap Motion Sees Its Tech In “Major” OEMs This Year
Leap Motion, a VR company specializing in gesture-driven input technology, announces that their proprietary technology will come to well-known VR OEMs in 2016. Although the San Francisco-based company was founded in…
Google Updates Cardboard Platform With 3D Audio Support
In the light of Google's boosted efforts for virtual reality with the launch of its dedicated division for VR, the Google Cardboard VR headset has become a major ongoing project…
Avegant Glyph Launches Early This Year, Retails For $699
The Avegant Glyph is an immersive media headgear and a noise-cancelling headphone in one, which Virtual Reality Times wrote an article about during its Kickstarter launch. Now, as 2016 ushers…
Google Forms VR Division, Gets Serious On Virtual Reality
Google has formed a division to focus specifically on virtual reality, in response to the intensifying competition among virtual reality headset developments from Facebook-owned Oculus VR, HTC, and Sony. Google…
HTC Vive Pre-orders To Begin On February 29, Shipping Launch Units in April
2016 is seen to become the year of virtual reality. With Oculus VR starting the pre-orders for the Rift, HTC's turn has come. Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC confirmed it will…
Theme Park Blends A Roller Coaster Ride With VR Space Travel
Does your usual roller coaster ride ain't giving you the needed adrenaline rush? A new twist on the physical roller coaster is about to be launched by a theme park…