Enlarge / Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift headset at a 2016 event. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Facebook mastered social media by giving people an easy way to share their offline lives with friends, family, and complete strangers on the Internet. So why is the company} now trying to invent a virtual […]
Enlarge / One day, the VR industry may be boosted with sensory tricks like smell-o-vision. That’s different from the itching and burning sensations reported by Quest 2 users—unless one of Quest 2’s VR zombie games is really, really ahead of its time. (credit: Oculus | Aurich Lawson) Facebook’s VR division is recalling every single foam […]
Demeo feels much like a classic, physical session of a tabletop RPG like Dungeons & Dragons—and it stars these four classes of heroes. You pick them up and move them around a board in VR, and the sensation is fantastic. Have you ever liked something so much that it made you sad? It’s that weird […]
The HTC Vive Focus 3, the company’s latest and highest-powered untethered VR system yet. New controllers, improved internal specs… and a very high MSRP of $1,299. [credit: HTC ] Today’s VR-centric ViveCon 2021, presented by HTC’s Vive division of VR headsets, kicks off with two new headset models slated to launch this year. That’s probably […]
The HTC Air VR headset, dolled up in a fitness-specific fit. HTC’s next major product-reveal event is looming in May, but for at least one of its upcoming VR products, the surprise has been spoiled—by an award, of all things. The IF World Design Guide Awards, held in Germany for decades and bestowed upon many […]
Enlarge / Former Apple hardware engineering leader Dan Riccio. (credit: Apple) A couple of weeks ago, Apple announced that longtime hardware engineering chief Dan Riccio will step down from his role to focus entirely on a “new project” within the company. According to yet another report at Bloomberg based on sources with knowledge of Apple’s […]
Enlarge / The “Sword of Damocles” head-mounted display, the original augmented reality headset, circa 1968. Augmented reality has gotten a lot more mobile in the past decade. (credit: Ivan Sutherland) A new report in The Information corroborates and expands upon an earlier Bloomberg report claiming that Apple is preparing to launch a high-end VR headset […]
Any excuse to show former Ars UK reporter Seb Anthony excited about a VR headset is a good one. (credit: Sebastian Anthony) The last time we heard any details about Apple’s long-rumored plans in the virtual/augmented reality space, the company was implementing a two-year internal delay from a previously planned 2020 launch. Today, Bloomberg cites […]
Expand (charge: Arthur VR) This happened to me following an abysmal briefing within an Oculus Quest two headset. Joined by over a dozen additional floating avatarswe teleported our strategy round an”outside” assembly space which could only be called aircraft-carrier-meets-Croatian-vacation. Past the huge expanse of digital breakout distances was a gorgeous sunset, but the evening {} […]
The HP G2 Omnicept Edition seems much like the normal HP G2, however it is accompanied by an extra slew of detectors. Visible at the top here’s really a heartrate tracker, whereas the eye-related trackers are based across the lenses. [charge: HP ] We are still awaiting check out HP’s following PC-VR headphone, the $600 […]