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Xbox Creator Nat Brown Joins Apple
Apple has hired former Xbox co-creator and ex-Valve VR Engineer Nat Brown. Brown broke the news about his new gig via Twitter stating that he was looking forward to continue…
HTC Viveport Streaming Subscription Service Offers an All-Access to Thousands of Games
HTC Vive has unveiled a new built-in streaming subscription service that offers users an unfettered access to thousands of virtual reality titles. HTC calls the service Viveport Streaming and it…
Amazon Launches the Amazon Prime Video VR for Virtual Reality Experiences
Amazon has spread its wings wide across many technological frontiers but virtual reality seems to have been the last hold-out. Beyond selling virtual reality devices on its ecommerce platform, Amazon…
Location-Based VR Startup ‘The Void’ is Expanding to 25 New Locations
Location-based virtual reality entertainment company ‘The Void’ is partnering with the multinational mall developer and operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to roll out some 25 location-based VR centers across the globe by 2022,…
Hong Kong Startup ‘Sandbox VR’ Building Hyperrealistic Virtual Reality Games
Hong Kong-based startup Sandbox VR made news early this year when it raised $68 million in Series A funding from some of the industry heavyweights such as Andreesen Horowitz, Stanford…
Microsoft Has Joined the XR Association Promoting AR/VR Development
Microsoft has joined the XR Association or XRA, a trade association representing the shared interests and goals of the headset and technology manufacturers in the augmented reality (AR), mixed reality…
Microsoft Showcases New HoloLens Hologram Capable of Language Translations
Microsoft keynote showcases language translation and holoportation, giving event-goers a window into the future. It is now possible to have an almost life-like and hyper-realistic holographic replica of yourself but…
KAT Loco Sensors Provide a Complete Wearable VR Locomotion System
Virtual reality controllers and headsets now easily track head and hand movements. However, the last terrain that has proven difficult to conquer is foot-tracking. The games hardware company KAT is…
Google Recreates a 3D Rendering of the Apollo 11 Cockpit
The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing is coming up in July and Google has lined up two augmented reality experiences that will immerse viewers into role of…
XRHealth Opens Up Platform to Third Party Development
Immersive technologies are now used widely in a variety of medical applications with virtual reality being at the vanguard of emerging innovations that are successfully being deployed in the health…