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HTC Annouce New Vive VR Hardware and Purcase Plans

March 2, 2017

HTC Vive purchase credit It would seem that HTC are taking steps to try to get their Vive VR headset and controls into more homes by allowing interest free finance over a 12 month period in North America. In ... Read More...

Acer is betting $10 million on location-based VR experiences and VR IMAX

Jeff Williams

November 11, 2016

News

Acer seems to have a dream where experiences similar to the arcade scene of yesteryear are recreated, but with a VR focus. They want to bring full-on VR experiences to physical locations that people can visit, ... Read More...

MY.COM ANNOUNCES VR INVADERS

Jeff Williams

September 29, 2016

Press Releases

VR Invaders Lets Players Dive Into Virtual Reality Amsterdam, The Netherlands – September 29, 2016 – Global publisher My.com is proud to debut the first virtual reality PC game in its portfolio. VR Invaders is... Read More...

Oculus Rift Review

Darren

September 27, 2016

Articles, Hardware Reviews, Peripherals

It’s been a tumultuous 4 years since Palmer Lucky first posted his Kickstarter for the rift, in those 4 years a lot has happened. The DK1 (DevKit 1) was released the following year, with its basic tracking allo... Read More...

Acer and Starbreeze come together to form a joint venture for StarVR

Jeff Williams

June 25, 2016

Press Releases

Acer and Starbreeze Boards Approve Definitive Agreement to Form Joint Venture for StarVR TAIPEI, Taiwan & STOCKHOLM--Acer Inc. (TWSE: 2353, LSE: ACID) and Starbreeze AB (First North: STAR) announced toda... Read More...

Razer announces the OSVR HDK2 to compete with Oculus and HTC

Darren

June 13, 2016

News

Razer today announced a new virtual reality headset for is OSVR platform at E3 2016. An evolution of the Open Source Headset. The HDK2 (Hacker Development Kit) touts an improved display featuring a resolutio... Read More...

Outlook has been optimized for HoloLens, and it’s rather peculiar

Jeff Williams

June 3, 2016

News

The HoloLens has the potential to be one of the most innovative and useful consumer devices and Microsoft has just shown off an Outlook mail and the calendar app used through the $3000 AR goggles in a surprisin... Read More...

Microsoft Research’s Flashback puts VR on low-end devices

Jeff Williams

May 31, 2016

News

Good virtual reality, the type that is at least somewhat convincing, is a resource intensive thing to create. Microsoft Research has created what they're calling 'Flashback' which seeks to make decent virtual r... Read More...

Google is doubling down on VR with Daydream, their own VR platform

Jeff Williams

May 19, 2016

Mobile, News

We already knew that Google was investing pretty heavily in VR when they created their Cardboard platform and we had previously heard some whispers in the Internet ether about a full first-party solution. Now i... Read More...

NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1080 graphics card

CreativeMaster

May 7, 2016

Articles, GPUs

During their live-stream event in Austin, Texas, NVIDIA announced their latest flagship graphics card, based on their next-generation Pascal Architecture. The GeForce GTX 1080 marks the beginning of the much aw... Read More...

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