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HTC Adds Wireless Kit for Vive

by Bob Raikes

HTC is making available a new wireless upgrade kit, the TPCast that mounts to existing Vive headsets on the Chinese HTC Vive headset. The unit has a battery on the back that supports the …

MSI & Dell to Go for Gaze

by Bob Raikes

Taiwanese sources claim that MSI and Dell will join Acer in adding Tobii’s gaze recognition technology to products. Acer announced products with gaze recognition at the recent IFA 2016 event. (Acer Jumps onto Gaze …

Asus AR Phone at CES?

by Bob Raikes

Asus is expected to be the second company after Lenovo with its Phab phone, to have a smartphone with Google Tango, the company’s CEO, Jerry Shen has said. The Google Tango platform is for …

BBC to Release VR Film for Daydream

by Bob Raikes

The BBC has confirmed that it will launch a new VR film, “The Turning Forest” free on Google’s Daydream platform. A trailer has already been shown (with pretty good binaural audio, so use headphones …

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Saturn Ingolstadt Has Dedicated VR Space

by Bob Raikes

Saturn, the German retailer, has put a special installation in its flagship Ingolstadt store, that is designed to allow clients to experience VR gaming. The company also uses VR in its kitchen planning department …

VR Threatened by Low Cost

by Bob Raikes

Juniper Research said that nearly 60 million VR headsets using smartphones will ship in 2021, up from around 16.8 million this year. Fewer than 5% of smartphone VR apps are chargeable at the point …

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ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces G701VI for VR

by Milos Pavlovic

ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced G701VI, a slim and stylish gaming laptop with overclockable NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics for incredible virtual-reality (VR) gaming performance. ROG G701VI has a wide-viewing-angle display that …

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U.S. DoE Awards VR Prize

by Bob Raikes

The U.S. Department of Education is launching EdSim Challenge, a competition to design educational simulations in virtual and augmented reality with a cash prize pool of $680,000 and additional sponsor prizes from IBM, Microsoft, …

Virtual Assault Becomes a Reality

by Norbert Hildebrand

With VR gaming reaching a larger and larger audience a very disturbing event has been made public. It concerns a case of sexual assault in virtual reality. In a blog posted on medium.com, the …

Tags:AR/VR| Gamer| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Fove with Eye-tracking Open for Orders

by Bob Raikes

We have been reporting on the development of VR headsets with eye tracking from Fove since 2013. Now the company is coming to market with pre-orders now available. The Fove 0 will go on …

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Google’s Daydream Headset Due

by Bob Raikes

Google’s Daydream VR headset is to start shipping on November 10th in Verizon stores and Best Buy. (Google Brings New Phones and VR Headset)

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When is VR Really Going Mainstream? Maybe Later than You Think.

by Norbert Hildebrand

Microsoft just announced that companies will be offering VR headsets for $299 and up and all powered by Windows “Holographic” technology. (Microsoft is developing a habit of using perfectly defined technical terms for marketing …

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