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Samsung Is Opening A Virtual Reality Studio In New York
Samsung has announced at the Sundance Film Festival 2016 that it is opening a virtual reality studio in New York to produce new VR experiences. Like early VR studios such…
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…
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…
Oculus VR Launches Pre-orders for the Rift, Priced at $599
Facebook-owned Oculus VR already began taking pre-orders for the Oculus Rift Consumer Edition virtual reality headset starting Wednesday. Oculus VR, which Facebook purchased in 2014 for $ billion, started taking…
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…
The HTC Vive Pre Is An Updated Vive Revealed At CES 2016
Photo: HTC HTC delivered something so well during the CES 2016 with its updated version of the Vive: a VR headset called the Vive Pre. What sets the Vive Pre…
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…