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Facebook Launches an Augmented Reality ‘Virtual Wing’ Exhibit at the Tate Museum
Some of the paintings in the Tate Museum will soon come “alive” virtually thanks to a partnership with Facebook to launch a “virtual wing” project at the museum this summer.…
VR Streaming Startup Vreal Calls it a Day
The Seattle-based virtual reality streaming startup Vreal has closed shop. The startup offered a sort of Twitch-like app for VR which provided a recording and broadcasting service with a number…
Xiaomi Denies Reports it is Disbanding its VR Development Projects
Virtual reality was billed as the next big tech revolution a few years ago and every major tech company threw its hat in the ring to grab a piece of…
PSVR Captures 30% of VR Hardware Revenues, Interest Waning in Low-End VR Headsets
A report by Strategic Analytics released yesterday indicates that shipments for virtual reality headsets dropped by 50% between 2017 and 2018. This might appear like a catastrophic slump in…
Oculus Rift Overtakes HTC Vive as the Top Platform for VR Devs According to XDCR Report
The XRDC VR/AR Innovation Report by the AR & VR Innovation Conference (XRDC) which surveys AR/VR developers is out. The conference carries out the survey every year. This year, they…
VR Fitness with Beat Saber: Players Share Their Workout Successes
You may no longer have to foot the bill of your annual gym subscription thanks to some new virtual reality games that are proving physical and exerting enough that they…
Valve Has Cancelled the VirtualLink VR Connection Standard for Valve Index
Last year seemed like a very progressive time for the industry when many of the players including Microsoft, Nvidia, Oculus, Valve and AMD agreed to have a common standard-VirtualLink- for…
Popular UK Retailer Lists HTC Vive Cosmos Price
The popular UK retailer Argos this week listed the price (product page has since been taken down) for HTC’s Vive Cosmos VR headset at £ which works out to about…
Microsoft Has Released Holographic Remoting Player App for HoloLens 2
Microsoft has this week released the Holographic Remoting app for its upcoming HoloLens 2 headset that enables users to create apps and content from their PCs which can subsequently be…
Microsoft Makes an FCC Filing, Suggesting HoLolens 2 Launch May be Imminent
Microsoft unveiled its retooled HoloLens, the HoloLens 2, during this year’s Mobile World Congress 2019 which was held in Barcelona. Now it seems the wait may be over and the…