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Magic Leap One Creator Edition European Launch Date is Approaching Soon
Magic Leap One is officially launching in Europe one year after it launched in the market. The initial shipments had been to only a few selected US cities and each…
LiquidMask VR: A New VR Face Mask Makes You Feel Like You Are Underwater
Taiwan-based researchers have developed a new water mask that can be worn under virtual reality headsets and which is capable of transmitting some liquid-based haptic and tactile stimuli. Scientists and…
Korean Institute Develops ‘Aero-Plane’ Force-Feedback Haptic Controller Prototype
Players have largely been become accustomed to the lack of gravity or weight when holding objects in the virtual environment but it ends up ruining the fluidity of the immersion.…
Popular UK Retailer Lists HTC Vive Cosmos Price
The popular UK retailer Argos this week listed the price (product page has since been taken down) for HTC’s Vive Cosmos VR headset at £ which works out to about…
Microsoft Has Released Holographic Remoting Player App for HoloLens 2
Microsoft has this week released the Holographic Remoting app for its upcoming HoloLens 2 headset that enables users to create apps and content from their PCs which can subsequently be…
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…
Tobii Spotlight Foveated Rendering Technology Leverages Eye-Tracking to Reduce VR Graphics Load by 57%
The Tobii eye-tracking technology, which is used widely in security features such as Windows Hello, has just gotten some major software enhancements according to an announcement made early this week.…
BBC Earth’s Next ‘Micro Kingdoms’ Immersive Experience is Coming on Magic Leap
The BBC has always been at the forefront of adopting emerging technologies and it has taken up enthusiastically to immersive technologies such as virtual reality. Now the media company is…
Bigscreen Beta Coming to PlayStation VR By Early 2020
The social VR app Bigscreen Beta already provides a vast cross-platform support. In its early days, the app enabled PC users to view their PC monitors in virtual reality but…
Oculus Venues Events Has Arrived Quest
The first round of software updates are now arriving on the standalone Oculus Quest headset and the app support on the platform is just about to widen dramatically. This week,…