You can fire him from Facebook and remove him from working on the Oculus VR technology he helped pioneer, but you can’t stop him from letting his inner geek run wild.
Ousted Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey is still very much the same boy who’s obsess…
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YouTube VR finally lands on the Oculus Go
Today, Google’s YouTube VR app arrives on the $199 Oculus Go, bringing the largest library of VR content on the web to Facebook’s entry-level VR device. YouTube brings plenty of content in conventional and more immersive video types. It’s undoubtedly the biggest single hub of 360 content and native formats like VR180, though offering access […]
View More YouTube VR finally lands on the Oculus GoVirtual reality training for car assembly line workers feels like a game — but it might work
As the colorful confetti rained down around me, I put my hands up and wiggled in a small victory dance. No one around me knew why I was celebrating; all they could see was the white Vive Focus headset covering most of my head. But I knew: I had succe…
View More Virtual reality training for car assembly line workers feels like a game — but it might workSave $100 on the MSi GP73 Leopard laptop at Walmart to enjoy VR gaming on the go
In the world of PC gaming, only a handful of companies have the kind of history that MSi does. From producing motherboards in the 1980s to the high-end gaming computers of today, you can’t argue with the company’s pedigree in the space.
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The Oculus Quest hits the VR sweet spot
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From my very first demo two years ago, back when it was called Santa Cruz and had a fan and processor strapped to the back, I’ve been impressed with the headset. Last year, I saw an even better demo that convinced me the future of VR is wireless.
Now that I’ve seen the product fully realized, I’m even more certain: the Oculus Quest feels like what VR should have been all along — mobile, wireless, and about the same price as a gaming console.
For Facebook, the Oculus Quest ($399) rounds out its VR lineup, with the Oculus Go ($199) at the low end and Oculus Rift ($399, plus the cost of a powerful PC) at the high end. Oculus Quest, by comparison, is a kind of compromise that attempts to offer the best of both worlds: the portability of the Go with games worthy of the Rift. Read more…
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Swiping right on virtual relationships
Sextech entrepreneur and advocate Bryony Cole is planning for a future when entire relationships exist in virtual reality.
View More Swiping right on virtual relationshipsHow Magic Leap compares to Microsoft HoloLens
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I first tried out Microsoft HoloLens a few years ago, a few months before its launch as a developer tool, and came away with similar impressions that many tech journalists had at the time: the tech was intriguing and impressive in some ways, but its limited field of view diminished the experience considerably.
I’ve used HoloLens a few times since then at demos and events, and although there have been improvements, they haven’t changed fundamental experience — or its limitations.
Magic Leap, which launched its developer hardware in August, provoked similar reactions. Although the product is different from HoloLens in many ways — it’s more steampunk goggles than futuristic visor, and you need to carry around a small hockey-puck computer to make it work — most people who had hands-on time with the device had similar observations: Here was a very promising augmented-reality experience that also suffers from field-of-view limitations and a lack of compelling software (although the latter criticism may have changed on Wednesday, with the release of a Magic Leap version of Angry Birds Read more…
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View More How Magic Leap compares to Microsoft HoloLensAmazon have got some great offers on PlayStation consoles and VR, just in time for the release of ‘Marvel’s Spider Man’ and ‘Fifa 19’
There are a few major releases on the horizon for Playstation. Namely, the new Marvel’s Spider-Man and FIFA 19.
Much has already been said about both releases and whilst we won’t know for sure how good (or not so good) these games will be until they’…
Acer adds built-in eye-tracking to its powerful StarVR One headset
Acer’s latest VR headset sure isn’t compact, but at least it’s mighty powerful.
The original StarVR headset launched in 2016 as the only VR headset with a 5K display and now Acer’s returned to the IFA tech show in Berlin with the StarVR One, an upgra…
Verizon has the Google Daydream View VR Headset on sale for 70% off and we’ve never seen it that cheap
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Hey, got $30 laying around?
Good, then you have guaranteed plans for every weekend of the next year — because Verizon is selling the Google Daydream View VR Headset for 70% off at just $29.99 right now.
The Google Daydream View is a phone-to-face immersion headset, AKA all you need to do is stick your phone in and bam — you’re in a whole new world, baby. Or as Google says, “Dream with your eyes open.” (I see what they did there.) Compatible phones include the Samsung Galaxy S8/S8+/Note 8, Google Pixel 1 and 2, LG V30 and Moto Z2. (Read Mashable’s past coverage of the Google Daydream View here.) Read more…
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Pico nabs $24.7M to create VR hardware that challenges Facebook, Google
While there aren’t many VR hardware startups raising cash out there these days, there are far fewer that are securing investments to actually build the VR headsets themselves. Even as established tech giants are having a rough go-ahead with the headset market, Beijing-based Pico Interactive is looking to give it a go with a focus […]
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