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HTC and Valve to Offer Vive VR Dev Kit for Free
The Vive, made by Valve in conjunction with HTC. Photo: HTC/Valve The collaboration between HTC and Valve has created a good contender to match the Oculus Rift in the form…
Avegant Glyph is a Pair of Headphones and VR Glasses in One
The Avegant Glyph looks like a high-end pair of headphones at first glance. Photo: Avegant You might think: can a VR headset be ever so sleek, far from the conventional…
Facebook Talks About VR at F8 Conference
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivering a keynote at the F8 annual developer conference. Photo: Facebook After the well-known buyout of Oculus VR made by Facebook close to a year ago, the…
Magic Leap: Everything You Need to Know
Magic Leap's vision of putting virtual objects on top of real ones. Photo: Magic Leap What if our virtual world revolves around us, integrated into our real world, unharnessed by…
OSVR and Leap Motion Team Up for Integrated Hand-tracking VR Headset
The OSVR headset. Photo: OSVR The futuristic hand-tracking abilities of Leap Motion will soon be a standard feature of the open-source VR headset OSVR, with the recent announcement made by…
Nimble VR: What It Is, And What It Does For Virtual Reality
The Nimble Sense in action, attached to an Oculus Rift VR headset. Photo: Nimble VR As a tech startup founded at San Francisco, California, Nimble VR sought people's attention and…
List of All Virtual Reality Headsets Under Development
(This post is updated to include all VR headsets under development as of August 2017.) After the historic crowdfunding success of the Oculus Rift back in 2012, virtual reality took…
VR Accessory Adds Realism To VR Experiences
The FeelReal Mask on Oculus Rift DK2. Photo: FeelReal Virtual reality headsets take your visual sense to another level. What if something can add much more than a great visual…
List of Haptic Controllers under Development for Virtual Reality
The Sixense STEM System demo at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show. (UPDATE: article updated with the addition of Unlimited Hand) Isn't it cool to control games such as tennis, boxing,…
Microsoft Will Bring Xbox Games to HoloLens
Microsoft's Phil Spencer on stage at the GDC 2015. Photo: Microsoft At the recently held Game Developers Conference, Microsoft had an opportunity to talk about its plans in bringing even…