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Beat Saber Won’t Get Cross Buy Following Facebook Acquisition
Facebook recently announced its acquisition of the Czech virtual reality studio Beat Games of the Beat Saber fame. The acquisition, however, left a few hanging questions such as whether there…
SteamVR App ‘YUR’ Counts Number of Calories You Burn in VR
Virtual reality is becoming the newest fitness fad. A lot of these games and apps require that player immerse themselves into the experience with their whole body rather than simply…
Nreal Light Partners with Qualcomm and Deutsche Telekom for First B2B Application for Remote AR Maintenance
Augmented reality manufacturer Nreal’s products have so far been aimed at the consumer market but that is about to change. During the Snapdragon Tech Summit held in Maui, Deutsche Telekom…
App Subscription for Oculus Quest: Viveport Infinity Now Supports Oculus Quest via Oculus Link
Viveport Infinity for Oculus Quest Viveport Infinity now officially supports Oculus Quest. This week saw HTC announce that its Viveport Infinity VR gaming subscription service would begin supporting the Oculus…
Adobe Announces the Acquisition of Oculus’ ‘Medium’ Sculpting App
Oculus has always ensured that its Touch Controllers can be useful in creative applications in VR partly due to the proliferation of creativity apps such as the sculpting app Medium.…
Report: Magic Leap Sold 6,000 AR Headsets in 6 Months
Magic Leap has been one of the most funded and most hyped Silicon Valley startups but the billions of dollars investments haven't translated into tangible market performance s far. A…
Qualcomm Partners with Niantic For Next-Gen Augmented Reality Headset
Pokémon GO creator, Niantic, has been a little limited in what it can currently accomplish with augmented reality. Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Platform Concept Design AR technology is already grappling with…
Qualcomm Announces the XR2 Platform for 5G AR/VR Devices
The new Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 chip is expected to power a constellation of virtual reality headsets and smartglasses beginning from 2020. Virtual reality and augmented reality two immersive technologies which…
Gucci Teams Up with a Snap for Limited-Edition 3D AR Glasses
During the Art Basel held in Miami on Wednesday night, Snap Inc unveiled a film collaboration with Spectacles 3, the filmmaker Harmony Korine and Gucci. A limited edition of the…
HTC Vive Launches a Beta Wireless Streaming for VIVEPORT
HTC Vive has launched the beta version of VIVEPORT Streaming that will allow for the wireless streaming of PC VR content to both the VIVE Focus Plus as well as…