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PS5 release date, specs, news, and rumors for Sony’s PlayStation 5
It's official! The next-generation PlayStation console is called the PS5 (PlayStation 5) and it's landing at the end of 2020. In recent months, Sony has been drip-feeding us juicy titbits such as an official PS5 release window, name and a few details about features....
Rumor: Apple Reportedly Partners With Valve to Develop AR Headset
Apple is developing an AR headset; so much is clear from its many AR-specific job listings and even its latest version of iOS, which includes a stereoscopic renderer. The questions of what, how, and when are all patently up in the air though, making any shred of...
Facebook CEO: ‘VR is Taking Longer Than Expected, but We’ll See It to Mass Adoption’
Facebook held its Q3 2019 earnings call late last week, and Oculus again found itself in the center stage as one of the company’s most visible of projects. Company founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that although their plans for VR & AR is “taking a bit...
HTC recreated the ‘Mona Lisa’ in 3D for the Louvre’s da Vinci exhibition
The Musée du Louvre in Paris has opened a new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, who died in Amboise, France, 500 years ago. As well as displaying paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculptures and more, the retrospective will play host to...
Varjo Launches VR-2 Headset with SteamVR Support
Announced and launched today, Varjo’s enterprise-focused VR-2 brings support for SteamVR content and improves on the headset’s ‘bionic display’, which delivers ‘retina’ resolution at the center of the field of view. A variation called the VR-2 also offers integrated...
Vive Cosmos Review – A Decent Headset Up Against Stiff Competition
Vive Cosmos has arrived and takes HTC’s consumer headset ambitions in a somewhat different direction. Three and a half years after the launch of the original Vive, Cosmos finds itself in a rather strange competitive landscape where it simultaneously must defend itself...
Oculus unveils the Rift S, a higher-resolution VR headset with built-in tracking
Oculus VR unveiled its next-generation Rift headset today, a higher-resolution pair of virtual reality goggles that remove the need for external cameras by incorporating built-in tracking. The name of the device, as rumored by numerous reports over the last 12 months,...
Samsung’s New Galaxy S10 Lineup Announced with Gear VR Support
Samsung today announced its latest and greatest flagship phone lineup, the Galaxy S10, S10+, S10e, and S10 5G. The company has confirmed that all variants of the S10 are compatible with the latest Gear VR headset. Gear VR, a snap-in smartphone headset, was released...
WiGig Chip Company Peraso Technologies Closes $42M Financing Round
Peraso Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company creating mmWave technology and Wireless Gigabit (WiGig) chipsets, announced that it has raised an additional $42 million in its Series D financing round. Peraso produces WiGig chip solutions for Fixed Wireless...
Oculus Quest standalone VR headset shipping next year
Oculus has announced its new headset, the Oculus Quest: a $399 standalone virtual reality headset that’s launching in the spring of 2019. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that “with Oculus Quest, we will complete our first generation of Oculus products.” Zuckerberg...
Jahshaka Studio 0.7.3 Alpha Release
The industry leading open source VR authoring toolkit, Jahshaka, has released version 0.7.3 alpha for windows, OsX and Linux. This release is the final in the 0.7 branch and builds on the new foundation laid out in 0.6.0 for powerful dynamic assets and materials. It...