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Upcoming VR/AR, technology announcements and events
Keep up to date with technology launches and announcements from the big players in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, cutting edge hardware, software and services. Event listings from Microsoft, Apple, Google,…
Lynx’s headset points to a bright future for mixed reality
A French start-up called Lynx is working on an affordable, standalone, all-in-one mixed reality headset with a number of features that put it ahead of well-funded competitors like Oculus and…
Oculus Quest is an augmented reality headset
Update 25 June 2021 Oculus appears ready to significantly update it’s AR/Mixed reality experiences when using the Oculus Quest 2 headset. On their developer blog, Oculus has shown off a…
Oculus Quest 128GB model retail price and package contents leak
The 128GB model of Facebook’s up and coming Oculus Quest mobile headset has leaked online. The retail price and package contents list appeared briefly on Amazon’s UK website before vanishing….
VR lightsabers in Star Wars Vader immortal trailer
A trailer for Star Wars Immortal, the first of a three part VR series heading for the Oculus Quest and Rift S, has arrived. Virtual Reality and lightsabers are an…
Acer’s ConceptD VR headset compared to the HP Reverb
Update 2021 Unfortunately Acer abandoned their plans to build the ConceptD OJO as a retail headset. Acer has announced a new high resolution Windows Mixed Reality headset called the ConceptD…
No Man’s Sky coming to VR headsets everywhere
No Man’s Sky is coming to every major virtual reality headset in June this year. Sony’s PSVR, HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift headsets are all included. With endless exotic…
Valve Index VR headset ships 15 June
Valve’s long rumoured VR headset is real and will be released on 15 June. A couple of leaks, that may have been deliberate, reveal an image of the headset, along…
Oculus Rift S coming soon: PC VR is not dead yet
Oculus is finally replacing its original Rift VR headset with the Rift S, a moderate upgrade coming in Spring 2019 (March to June in the US). The Rift S will…
SpaceX sending Japanese tourists around moon while live streaming in VR
In 2023, if all goes to plan, Elon Musk will send SpaceX’s yet to be built BFG spacecraft (Big Falcon Rocket) around the moon with its first paying passenger. After…
Did Magic Leap kill Google Glass 2?
Magic Leap is a secretive US company working on a head-mounted display that could surpass the hopes of Google Glass, Hololens, Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive combined. While these…
Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game
While we wait for No Man’s Sky to be released in VR, Ubisoft has shown off a new Star Trek based virtual reality experience at the E3 gaming conference in…
No Man’s Sky: 18 quintillion science fiction worlds ready for VR
If you’re a science fiction reader, the visuals generated by the upcoming computer game No Man’s Sky look hauntingly familiar. The trailers and screenshots released so far are striking reminders of…
Best virtual reality and augmented reality gear
The science fiction devices and virtual landscapes described in books like Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash and William Gibson’s Neuromancer are edging closer to reality. With the consumer editions of the…