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Sony Selling Millions of PSVR Headsets
Sony’s PlayStation VR virtual reality headsets are doing quite impressively with the company having sold a total of million PlayStation VR systems throughout the world by March 3rd 2019. This…
HTC Vive Focus Plus VR Headset to Cost $799 and Ship Starting April 15
HTC has just announced that its Vive Focus Plus standalone VR headset will be shipping from April 15 for $799. The enterprise-targeted virtual reality headset was revealed during its annual…
Virtual Reality Comes to No Man’s Sky in Upcoming Update
Two years after the launch of its sci-fi exploration game No Man’s Sky, Hello Games has today announced that its next update of the game will have virtual reality support…
Seasoned Venture Capitalist Joins AR Startup WaveOptics as CFO
WaveOptics, the British augmented reality startup and one of the AR pioneers of the industry in the UK has just hired seasoned venture capitalist Robert Bahns of IP Group as…
Magic Leap and Air New Zealand Partner for an AR Game
Air New Zealand has partnered with Magic Leap and showcased a new augmented reality game called “Fact or Fantasy Game of New Zealand”. Also involved in the effort is the…
Nintendo Labo VR Kit Provides a Hands-On DIY Virtual Reality
With Nintendo’s latest Labo kit, users can now code their own virtual reality games in an almost silly LEGO kind of way. Nintendo just released a DIY cardboard accessory kit…
Israeli AR Startup Infinity AR Acquired by Alibaba
The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has acquired the Israeli augmented reality startup InfinityAR for an estimated $10 million according to market sources. Alibaba already held a major stake in the…
Microsoft Introduces OpenXR to Windows Mixed Reality in a Cross-Platform VR Play
In a move that will help unify cross-platform virtual reality development, Microsoft has just incorporated OpenXR into its Windows Mixed Reality devices. The move is aimed at making it a…
GDC 2019: Tobii Launches New Mixed Reality Eye-Tracking SDK
Tobii just unveiled a new software development kit (SDK) for mixed reality applications at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC 2019). The Swedish high-tech eye tracking company also announced a…
WarDucks Raises $3.8 Million for Location-Based AR Game
Dublin-based game studio WarDucks has just raised $ million for the launch of its location-based AR game studio in a bid to compete with some of the biggest augmented reality…