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Redditors mixed reactions on Apple Vision Pro

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Redditors mixed reactions on Apple Vision Pro


  • Friday, June 23, 2023
  • By Richard Harris

The Apple Vision Pro headset has sparked mixed reactions on Reddit over the high price, low battery life, and limitations of the headset. GlobalData revealed that Redditors argued it might be used more for work than gaming, and concerns about it lead...


visionOS SDK and what devs should know

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visionOS SDK and what devs should know


  • Thursday, June 22, 2023
  • By Freeman Lightner

The visionOS SDK, Xcode 15 beta 2, Reality Composer Pro, Simulator, and developer tools are now available through the Apple Developer Program, and next month Apple is hosting in-person developer labs so devs can get hands-on experience with the Visio...


Vision Pro headset and visionOS from Apple

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Vision Pro headset and visionOS from Apple


  • Monday, June 12, 2023
  • By Richard Harris

Apple officially revealed that the Vision Pro headset and visionOS will be available in early 2024. visionOS is Apple's first-ever spatial operating system and the Vision Pro headset will bring mixed reality experiences to users, transforming the way...


ByteDance offering pay to Meta VR developers

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ByteDance offering pay to Meta VR developers


  • Monday, April 24, 2023
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

ByteDance, the parent of TikTok is offering to pay Meta VR developers from 15k-25k per title, to bring more apps to its Pico headsets. Pico / ByteDance saw a gigantic marketplace opportunity, as well as Apple, which plans to release a device at some ...


VR sports app Gym Class secures $8M in funding

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VR sports app Gym Class secures $8M in funding


  • Thursday, August 11, 2022
  • By Brittany Hainzinger

Gym Class, the VR digital sports app has announced that they have landed $8M in funding, and plan to launch the game on the Meta Quest Store in the fall of 2022. The Gym Class founders have teamed up to build a social experience through digital sport...


Future VR optics from Meta

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Future VR optics from Meta


  • Tuesday, June 28, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

Sam Dale, Technology Analyst from IDTechEx analyzes the future VR Optics from Meta including the prototype VR headsets and components, compact optics, the Holocake Lens, how the vergence-accommodation conflict will be solved with varifocal lenses, an...


VR metaverse solution for the enterprise market

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VR metaverse solution for the enterprise market


  • Monday, April 18, 2022
  • By Freeman Lightner

Remio has raised $4.5M to expand its VR metaverse solution for the enterprise market. The seed round funding will help transform workspaces for leading enterprise businesses including Google, Netflix, Hubspot, Fidelity, Twilio, Trello, Nextdoor and m...


Open source Mixed Reality (MR) application for Microsoft HoloLens

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Open source Mixed Reality (MR) application for Microsoft HoloLens


  • Tuesday, September 3, 2019
  • By Freeman Lightner

Feel Physics releases a new open-source mixed reality (MR) app for science education to make learning science fun and contribute to improving the quality of science education worldwide....


VR gaming with computer vision assisted audio coming

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VR gaming with computer vision assisted audio coming


  • Thursday, March 21, 2019
  • By Richard Harris

The world’s first computer vision assisted, spatial audio system could help virtual reality gaming ‘level up,’ claim experts from the University of Surrey’s Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)....


Scarygirl Mission Maybee comes to Zero Latency's FreeRoam VR

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Scarygirl Mission Maybee comes to Zero Latency's FreeRoam VR


  • Monday, March 18, 2019
  • By Richard Harris

Scarygirl Mission Maybee's imaginative free-roam VR gameplay is the first third-party content to hit Zero Latency’s next-generation platform, which is being developed in collaboration with Microsoft, HP, and Intel....


Mesmerizing Titanic virtual reality game coming to PlayStation

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Mesmerizing Titanic virtual reality game coming to PlayStation


  • Wednesday, December 26, 2018
  • By Richard Harris

Titanic VR is a gripping educational game that delivers gameplay that's historically accurate to the experience of the Titanic disaster. Players also get the opportunity to explore the shipwreck on the sea floor as well....


Transforming industries with photoenabled apps

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Transforming industries with photoenabled apps


  • Monday, December 24, 2018
  • By Jindou Lee

Though often thought of as consumer technologies, the potential applications of AR and VR in professional settings are diverse. VR is already being used to help train surgeons and pilots, provide virtual tours of listed homes, and create virtual walk...


RelayCars 8 lets you shop for cars in virtual reality

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RelayCars 8 lets you shop for cars in virtual reality


  • Tuesday, November 20, 2018
  • By Christian Hargrave

RelayCars 8 features the new RelayCars Garage, an immersive showroom which allows car shoppers and car dealers to select, save and compare a personally curated selection of vehicles....


Overstock executive named cochair of VRARA Retail Committee

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Overstock executive named cochair of VRARA Retail Committee


  • Friday, January 12, 2018
  • By Christian Hargrave

Augmented Reality app by Overstock.com sees their SVP of Software Engineering named chairman of the VRAR Association....


National Air and Space Museum releases VR Hangar App

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National Air and Space Museum releases VR Hangar App


  • Friday, December 22, 2017
  • By Christian Hargrave

Mobile VR app released by Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum to bring their displays to everyone in a whole new way....


Mountain Dew taps Immersv for 360 video ads

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Mountain Dew taps Immersv for 360 video ads


  • Monday, November 27, 2017
  • By Richard Harris

Mobile 360 degree and VR ads by Immersiv are going to be used to market Mountain Dew's new #GotHandles campaign....


How Virtual Reality is helping seniors improve their quality of life

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How Virtual Reality is helping seniors improve their quality of life


  • Wednesday, September 27, 2017
  • By Christian Hargrave

Virtual reality implementations are helping senior citizens improve their quality of life through Maplewood Senior Living's new Center for Aging Innovation and Technology....


VR human body reconstruction developed by Fraunhofer HHI

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VR human body reconstruction developed by Fraunhofer HHI


  • Thursday, September 7, 2017
  • By Christian Hargrave

3D VR body imagery scanning software developed by Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute lets developers create VR representations of humans with images....


Immersv VR and Mobile 360 marketing firm nabs $10.5M in Series A

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Immersv VR and Mobile 360 marketing firm nabs $10.5M in Series A


  • Wednesday, August 23, 2017
  • By Richard Harris

VR advertising and mobile 360 marketing startup Immersv nabs $10.5M in a series A funding round....


IBM proves commitment to Java and Scala communities

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IBM proves commitment to Java and Scala communities


  • Tuesday, July 4, 2017
  • By Richard Harris

Collaborative cognitive and artificial intelligence development initiative announced between IBM and Lightbend....


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