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Apple Hires Top VR Expert To Join The Likes of Oculus, Samsung, and HTC
With a handful of recent VR company buyouts Apple has undertaken, it shows that the Cupertino tech giant is showing its interest in virtual reality. And to spice up the…
Facebook to open Oculus VR research facility in Pittsburgh
Facebook is about to break ground on Pittsburgh as it establishes a facility dedicated to Oculus VR research efforts in the said American city. The company will open a 20,000-square-foot…
Leap Motion Sees Its Tech In “Major” OEMs This Year
Leap Motion, a VR company specializing in gesture-driven input technology, announces that their proprietary technology will come to well-known VR OEMs in 2016. Although the San Francisco-based company was founded in…
Google Updates Cardboard Platform With 3D Audio Support
In the light of Google's boosted efforts for virtual reality with the launch of its dedicated division for VR, the Google Cardboard VR headset has become a major ongoing project…
Avegant Glyph Launches Early This Year, Retails For $699
The Avegant Glyph is an immersive media headgear and a noise-cancelling headphone in one, which Virtual Reality Times wrote an article about during its Kickstarter launch. Now, as 2016 ushers…
Google Forms VR Division, Gets Serious On Virtual Reality
Google has formed a division to focus specifically on virtual reality, in response to the intensifying competition among virtual reality headset developments from Facebook-owned Oculus VR, HTC, and Sony. Google…
HTC Vive Pre-orders To Begin On February 29, Shipping Launch Units in April
2016 is seen to become the year of virtual reality. With Oculus VR starting the pre-orders for the Rift, HTC's turn has come. Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC confirmed it will…
Intel and ionVR Partners For A VR Headset That Promises A Lag-Free Experience
Intel partners with a small headset company called IonVR to create a mobile headset that can map the world (and your hands) without wires, controllers, or external cameras. IonVR is a…
Samsung Reveals “Rink”, A Motion Controller For the Gear VR
Photo: Samsung C-Lab In Samsung's C-Lab, a team of six people worked on a problem that haunts the Samsung Gear VR until this day – to have a fairly precise…
Chinese VR Startup Launches Gear VR Alternative
A new name on the VR headset scene has been gaining attention recently. Chinese virtual reality platform company FiresVR launched its JiDome-1 VR headset which functions similarly to the Samsung…