Niantic is Bringing Its Large-scale AR Positioning System to WebAR Too

Niantic is Bringing Its Large-scale AR Positioning System to WebAR Too

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address This week Niantic announced Lightship VPS, a system designed to make possible accurate localization of AR devices at a large scale to…

Unexpected Update Brings New Content to SteamVR Home

Unexpected Update Brings New Content to SteamVR Home

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address Valve released an update to SteamVR this week that unexpectedly added new content to SteamVR Home. Valve has long been making small…

Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

Lynx Secures $4M in Series A Funding, Aims to Become “European Champion of Mixed Reality”

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address Lynx, the French XR hardware startup known for crowdfunding the Lynx R-1 mixed reality headset, today announced it’s secured $4 million in its…

Meta Research Explores a New Solution to One of VR’s Biggest Display Challenges

Meta Research Explores a New Solution to One of VR’s Biggest Display Challenges

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address New research from Kent State University and Meta Reality Labs has demonstrated large dynamic focus liquid crystal lenses which could be used…

Magic Leap is Selling Its First AR Headset for Just $550

Magic Leap is Selling Its First AR Headset for Just $550

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address It looks like Magic Leap is holding a barn burner of a sale on its first AR headset, Magic Leap 1, as…

Catch Road to VR Co-founder Ben Lang on the Between Realities Podcast

Catch Road to VR Co-founder Ben Lang on the Between Realities Podcast

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang recently joined the crew of the Between Realities podcast. Bringing more than a decade of experience…

VR Roguelike ‘OUTLIER’ Cancelled Due to “overestimated demand”

VR Roguelike ‘OUTLIER’ Cancelled Due to “overestimated demand”

FacebookTwitterLinkedinRedditSubscribe The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox.  Email Address Joy Way, the studio behind VR titles Stride and Against, announced it’s abandoning development on its most recent PC VR title, Outlier,…

Google ‘Blocks’ Update Matures Tools for Even Easier 3D Modeling in VR

Google ‘Blocks’ Update Matures Tools for Even Easier 3D Modeling in VR

Google Blocks, the 3D object creation tool for VR/AR app developers, just got a big update that includes new environments, improved object snapping, and a number of experimental features that the company says makes Blocks “more powerful and even easier to use.” Released to Rift and Vive users for free back in July, Google intended the creation experience in Blocks be more…