Facebook and ZeniMax settle Oculus VR lawsuit
After more than four years of legal back-and-forth, ZeniMax and Facebook reached an undisclosed settlement in a suit that ensnared three key Oculus leaders. Read the full article…
Read MoreAfter more than four years of legal back-and-forth, ZeniMax and Facebook reached an undisclosed settlement in a suit that ensnared three key Oculus leaders. Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: Two years ago, Mark Zuckerberg donned a VR headset at Mobile World Congress against a backdrop that read “the next platform.” It sparked fervor and big investment in the VR space. But in the past year, many critics have questioned the viability of the industry, as headset sales underwhelm and buzzy technologies like blockchain… Read the full article…
Read MoreNomadic is a VR experiences company founded by people that have worked in Hollywood at companies like Industrial Light and Magic on Star Wars films. Read the full article…
Read MoreSony is skipping E3 2019, and we know why! OK. That’s a lie. I don’t know why I do that. I just think that maybe you’ll like me if I know things. Read the full article…
Read MoreFollowing backlash surrounding the reveal of exclusive content for the PSVR version of Beat Saber, developer Beat Games has reassured PC players they’re not being forgotten. In tweets yesterday the developer noted that it wanted PSVR players to have ‘something new’ to experience when the game launched on the platform on November 20. That includes a…Read… Read the full article…
Read MoreAugmented and virtual reality startup Leap Motion was close to being bought out by Apple, but killed both deals, and may now be teetering on the edge. Read the full article…
Read MoreWithout innovative immersive technology, arenas risk losing fan interest, can expect reduced revenues and face the danger of becoming irrelevant in an increasingly connected and digital world. Read the full article…
Read MoreOne of the interesting talks during Magic Leap’s laborious three-hour keynote presentation last week was by Jared Ficklin, creative technologist and partner at Argodesign, a product design consultancy. Ficklin’s company signed on to help Magic Leap, the creator of cool new augmented reality glasses, in the creation of the next generatio… Read the full article…
Read MoreMagic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz suggested an initial public offering might be planned for his company if it is able to continue building momentum with developers. The suggestion came during our first interview with Abovitz on Tuesday during Magic Leap’s developer conference in Los Angeles. The Magic Leap One Creator Edition headset started shipping a c…Read… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: The VR industry has been through quite the tempest during the past few years, and much of the rollercoaster ride of emotions and expectations has been due to what, in my opinion, have been major misunderstandings about the emerging tech’s product-market fit. And yet, despite all of these perceptual barriers and the artificial forces… Read the full article…
Read MoreGoogle’s Owlchemy Labs just revealed one of its experiments using ARCore on a phone to offer a spectator view into the upcoming game Vacation Simulator. At Oculus Connect 5, Facebook’s teams demonstrated a series of experiments that together included full body tracking, arena-scale movement freedom and mixed reality which incorporates real objects… Read the full article…
Read MoreEXCLUSIVE: Observer Analytics has launched its analytics platform for virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. That’s a lot of realities, but the truth is it isn’t clear which of these new technologies will become the biggest. Observer Analytics believes they all have to be quantified and sees its job as quantifying VR and…Read More… Read the full article…
Read MoreThe company Dream is named appropriately. For three years, it has been working on an online collaboration tool that enables people to view web sites on the Chrome browser in virtual reality. It’s like the operating system for virtual reality, and it is available for free on the Oculus Store. That might seem a bit crazy,… Read the full article…
Read MoreVirtual reality is still a fledgling industry, and it’s hard to make money on the relatively small installed base of VR headsets. But that doesn’t bother Robin Hunicke, the CEO and cofounder of San Francisco-based indie game studio Funomena. Hunicke, who is also director of the Art, Games, & Playable Media BA program at the Universi…Read… Read the full article…
Read MorePixvana debuted Spin Studio in late 2016 to help VR content creators easily make and distribute videos — now the platform is becoming even more compelling. As part of today’s “full release” of Spin Studio, Pixvana is notably adding the ability to edit content directly within a VR headset, complete with VR-native tools and ge…Read… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: In over two years as CEO of Admix, an AR/VR company, I have attended well over 100 events, pitched investors, and given countless interviews. By far the most common question I get is “What does VR need to get to the next level?” Industry people have different theories about it. Some say hardware needs… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: Almost everyone’s heard something about the promise of augmented reality (AR). Next-generation video game action. The future of interactive movies. Or blockbuster AR investments from heavy-hitters like Facebook, promising a new way that we’ll connect and interact. Is this exciting? Absolutely. But there’s more to AR than hype or novelty. Sma…Read More Powered by… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: One of the earliest use cases in both AR and VR was using these new mediums as a canvas for different creations. From Google’s Tilt Brush to paint in 3D space in VR to their “Just a Line” app to draw in 3D space using their AR framework, ARCore. Magic Leap also launched its… Read the full article…
Read MoreVeer VR has launched a free web-based virtual reality content creation tool as part of an effort to get users to create more content within the Veer global VR content community. Veer Experience is a coding-free interactive creation tool that people can use to create VR photos and videos, including those that can be viewed… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: Since Apple’s release of ARKit, it’s become easier than ever to make AR experiences. However, an initial stumbling block for the nascent mobile AR ecosystem was the fact that AR experiences were solitary. That is, it wasn’t possible to make seamless real-time multiplayer AR experiences, and content didn’t persist in the spaces where these… Read the full article…
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