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FOVE Begins Shipping $599 Eye-Tracking Headset this Month

Road to VR

Born from a successful Kickstarter campaign back in early summer of 2015, FOVE attracted over $480,000 in crowd sourced funds along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures. We started FOVE as a small team back in 2014, and now we’re finally realizing an entirely new way for humans to interact with a virtual world.”

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VR Coaster and Sensics to Create All-in-one VR Headset for Theme Parks

Road to VR

VR headsets have been in use on rides like roller coasters and drop towers basically since the initial Samsung Gear VR for Note 4 came to market in late 2014. Sensics will also be at the CES show in Las Vegas in January 2018. image courtesy VR Coaster.

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Happy New Year!

VRWorld

as a small team is en route towards Las Vegas, Nevada. VR World launched on the last day of August 2014, reaching a stable readership base. 2017 looks to offer a large number of innovative products, ranging from CPUs and GPUs from usual suspects, first 10nm processors from Apple, Qualcomm and Samsung.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

Wedged somewhat inconsiderately at the very start of every year (it’s OK CES organisers, no one in the tech industry have families they want to spend time with), the annual Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas is still the biggest event for hardware in the world. CES 2013 / 2014: The Early Years.

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The Tantalizing Promise Of Augmented Reality Games

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week, was loaded with augmented reality smartglasses, which layer digital animations and information on top of the real world. We’ve been investing in it since 2014. We got into AR seriously in 2014. It’s my job to re-engage them and go from there.