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Virtuix Cancels International Pre-Orders for Treadmill

by Bob Raikes

One of the accessories desired by very serious VR users is equipment that allows safe movement. The Omni VR Treadmill is a crowd-funded device that raised $1.1m on Kickstarter. However, the company has now …

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WorldViz Debuts Content Creation Tool Called Skofield

by Chris Chinnock

Debuted just prior to I/ITSEC at the Autodesk University event in Las Vegas, the company was also demonstrating a content creation tool called ‘Skofield’ at I/ITSEC as well. Skofield is a cloud-based application targeting …

Rockwell Collins Shows Multiple AR/MR Demos

by Chris Chinnock

Rockwell Collins showed several mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) applications at I/ITSEC 2016 that were good. In the mixed reality camp was a new product they call Coalescence. This is a commercially …

Eyetracking and Tobii Show, well, Eyetracking

by Chris Chinnock

Two companies, Eyetracking and Tobii were demonstrating eyetracking technology for a range of applications at I/ITSEC 2016. The company Eyetracker says its tracker can track heads, faces and even eyelids in addition to gaze …

Boeing Features Strong Focus on AR and VR Applications

by Chris Chinnock

Boeing made a strong impression with a variety of Hololens AR demos as well as a VR demo at I/ITSEC 2016. With Hololens, Boeing must have had 4-5 demos all placed in virtual spaces …

Training Needs Evolving within the Military

by Chris Chinnock

In numerous panels and presentations it became clear that the U.S. Armed Forces are increasingly seeing a need to revamp the way they train their service members. We listened in on one important panel …

Oculus Confirms Touch Titles

by Yvette Raikes

Oculus has just launched its touch controllers, and pre-orders will get 8 free titles. The company has released a list of 53 titles which are available here.

Tags:AR/VR| Mobile Display Monitor| Oculus VR| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 48

AWS offers NGCodec

by Bob Raikes

Amazon web services (AWS) is working with NGCodec to use the firm’s FPGA-based H.265/HEVC video codec which can support high performance encoding of UltraHD with low latency for AR and VR applications. By running …

SuperData Launches VR Data Network

by Bob Raikes

Market data supplier, SuperData, said that it has a new partnership network supporting ‘the $5B virtual reality industry’. It exploits SuperData’s existing data relationships with game publishers and payment providers, and the company claims …

Tags:Game Playing| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 47

HTC Flat in Sales in 2017

by Bob Raikes

Reports from Taiwan say that HTC is not expecting increased sales revenues in 2017 because it is struggling to ramp up demand for the HTC Vive headset. Although it has signed up with Sprint …

Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 47

Was VR ‘the biggest loser” on Black Friday?

by Bob Raikes

The markets for the largest categories of consumer electronics, such as TVs, smartphones and computers have been pretty weak over recent years, and everyone is looking for the ‘next big thing’ to drive the …

Tags:Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 47

What’s Percolating in the Ed Market

by Len Scrogan

What are the late-breaking developments in educational tech? Which innovations are trending in the near term? What is expected to surge and scale in schools? And which innovations promise to swell over the long …