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Glückauf! Take a Guided Virtual Reality Tour Inside Germany’s Last Coal Mine
For generations, coal or the “black gold” powered Germany’s industrial pre-eminence. Generations of families and communities lived off the coal mines that also kept German industries humming along. Now the…
Samsung Preparing to Launch its New Odyssey+ VR Headset
As a result of a filing at the FCC, it has emerged that Samsung is planning on launching an updated high-end virtual reality headset for its Original Samsung Odyssey. It…
StarVR One Debuts Next-Gen Headset Featuring Eye Tracking
Taiwan-based virtual reality startup StarVR has debuted its next-generation virtual reality headset, the StarVR One. The new headset comes with a new suite of features while also upgrading some of…
Magic Leap is Shipping Long-Awaited Augmented Reality Headset
The long-awaited Magic Leap One augmented reality headset has finally hit the market with a starting price of $2,295. At this price, it is currently more costly than almost any…
Japanese Students Have Recreated Hiroshima Bombing in Virtual Reality
Want to experience what life in Hiroshima was like before, during and after the atomic bombing of 1945? A group of Japanese students from Fukuyama Technical High School have walked…
Lockheed Martin Using Augmented Reality in Spacecraft Manufacturing
It is almost like something straight out a Sci-Fi movie but Lockheed Martin is deploying augmented reality in building NASA’s Orion spacecraft which will be used on its mission to…
Smithsonian Renders Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality
The iconic Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has partnered with Intel and Second Life creator Linden Lab to render its current art exhibition No Spectators, The Art of Burning Man…
The Best Real-World Use Augmented Reality Apps for 2018
Augmented reality (AR) is a computer-enhanced perception of reality. It has great potential to radically distort reality and create new real-world and virtual experiences. The best example is the widely…
Get a Sneak Peek into the Magic Leap OS
Magic Leap is peeling back the veils of secrecy and finally giving users a sneak peek under the hood of its upcoming operating system. The company has updated its developer…
Google Officially Adding Chrome to its Daydream VR Headsets
Google has now given the Chrome a virtual reality treatment. The Google Chrome browser has now been officially added to the Daydream virtual reality platform. From today, if you are…