Google is shutting down its Emmy Award-winning VR film division, Spotlight Stories, after six years of building out content, Variety reports. We’ve reached out to Google for confirmation. “Google Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. We are artists and technologists making immersive stories for mobile 360, mobile VR and room-scale VR headsets, and building the […]
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Nintendo brings virtual reality to the Switch with its new Labo kit
Google showed off virtual reality designed around cardboard in 2014, but it looks like Nintendo is ready to get in on the action now as well with a new Labo VR kit for the Switch that puts the system inches from your face. In Labo fashion, there are some pretty outlandish projects to be built […]
View More Nintendo brings virtual reality to the Switch with its new Labo kitNintendo announces Shareable, a Labo cardboard VR Kit for Switch
In a surprise to practically everyone, Nintendo announced a virtual reality Labo kit for the Switch — and it’s out April 12.
The “simple” cardboard VR set will serve as the fourth kit in the Labo line and offer up six new DIY Toy-Con creations for players to make and enjoy. The project marks Nintendo’s first foray into the world of virtual reality since the release of the much-maligned Virtual Boy in 1995.
The new VR Kit comes in two packages, with the more expensive $80 option including everything in the Shareable lineup: Toy-Con VR Goggles, Blaster, Camera, Bird, Wind Pedal, and Elephant — plus a screen holder, safety cap, and game software. Read more…
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View More Nintendo announces Shareable, a Labo cardboard VR Kit for SwitchMatterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platform
The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age of digital media and imaging technologies, and startups that are putting themselves at the center of that are attracting interest. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Matterport, which started out making cameras but has since diversified into a wider […]
View More Matterport raises $48M to ramp up its 3D imaging platformJupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy them
Whether it’s by flood, fire, or the fury of a storm, climate-related catastrophes are now impacting most cities and towns across the country. As these natural disasters increase in frequency and severity, cities and the businesses that reside in them are mobilizing to understand how best to prepare for the climatological challenges they’re going to […]
View More Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate change will destroy themSteam fights for future of game stores and streaming
For more than 15 years, Steam has been the dominant digital distribution platform for PC video games. While its success has spawned several competitors, including some online stores from game publishers, none have made a significant dent in its vice-like grip on the market. Cracks though are seemingly starting to appear in Steam’s armor, and […]
View More Steam fights for future of game stores and streamingQualcomm wants your phone to drive your next VR and AR headsets
Qualcomm wants to create a new device category, XR viewer headsets, that combine the compute power of its current Snapdragon 855 platform with the speed of 5G on a smartphone to provide you with mobile VR and AR experiences — or ‘Extended Reality,’ as Qualcomm likes to call it — with six degrees of freedom […]
View More Qualcomm wants your phone to drive your next VR and AR headsetsRobotics, AR and VR are poised to reshape healthcare, starting in the operating room
About 20 years ago, a medical device startup called Intuitive Surgical debuted the da Vinci robot and changed surgical practices in operating rooms across the United States. The da Vinci ushered in the first age of robotic-assisted surgical procedures with a promise of greater accuracy and quicker recovery times for patients undergoing certain laparoscopic surgeries. For […]
View More Robotics, AR and VR are poised to reshape healthcare, starting in the operating roomHTC revamps standalone VR headset to keep pace with Oculus while it looks to big business
HTC has had a little bit of a rough ride these past few years. After betting the farm on VR, the company has had to make some substantial business strategy shifts to keep the division kicking in the face of a less-than-robust headset market and a behemoth margin-less competitor that’s alright losing a few billion […]
View More HTC revamps standalone VR headset to keep pace with Oculus while it looks to big businessThis is the best VR headset I’ve ever demoed
Before Oculus kickstarted a lot of the fervor around consumer headsets, the VR headsets that were being built for enterprise rigs were multi-thousands-dollar rigs that still sucked. As Oculus and HTC expanded their platforms, a lot of these enterprise-focused VR companies shriveled up or were forced to significantly retool how they approached fat-wallet customers. Things […]
View More This is the best VR headset I’ve ever demoedOculus co-founder shipping free Rift repair kits to users with VR headset audio issue
Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey isn’t in the VR hardware business these days since getting canned by Facebook (he’s focused on smart border security at his new company Anduril), but he still wants people to like the product he helped design. A couple of months back he detailed some of the rather intricate mods he had […]
View More Oculus co-founder shipping free Rift repair kits to users with VR headset audio issueA virtual reality ‘Doctor Who’ film is coming to a headset near you
If you’ve always wanted know what it’s like to travel through space and time, then this is for you. Soon, you can space/time travel with The Doctor inside the TARDIS for a full 12 minutes.
The BBC announced it is releasing an animated virtual reality Doctor Who film in 2019, that will allow viewers to tag along with The Doctor as she travels around in the TARDIS on a mission to save someone from something.
The movie is entitled Doctor Who: The Runaway, and is a new original Doctor Who story — but those are all the details we have so far. Read more…
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