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Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Not Compatible With Gear VR
Samsung’s newly-announced Galaxy Note 10 phones will not be compatible with its Gear VR headset. The tech company has confirmed that users will not be able to use the Note…
Facebook Confirms Local 3D Image Processing for Oculus Quest and Rift S Cameras
Facebook recently relaunched its Quest and Rift S platforms. Both of these leverage a large number of cameras during use and this has raised some privacy concerns, particularly with regard…
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…
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…
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…
Veteran Apple Software Manager Kim Vorrath Moves to the AR Team As Apple Ramps Up AR Headset Development Efforts
One of Apple’s key software executives Kim Vorrath has been moved to the augmented reality division to “bring some order” at a time when Apple is busy ramping up its…
Applications Open for Oculus Launch Pad 2019 Developer Program
You can now submit your applications for the fourth annual Oculus Launch Pad Boot Camp 2019. The program has been developed to help support promising developers and creators who come…
Registration Opens for the Oculus Connect 6 Conference
Facebook this week opened the registration for the upcoming Oculus Connect 6 (OC6) virtual reality developer conference which takes place at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center on September 25th…