article thumbnail

Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development

Road to VR

Today Razer is announcing a $5 million OSVR development fund which the company will use to incentivize support of its open-source VR platform. This gives developers a minimum expectation of ROI when building for OSVR and incentivizes Razer and OSVR to help co-market developers projects in order to sell those pre-purchased keys.

Razer 100
article thumbnail

Razer Want to Make OSVR the “De Facto” VR Platform in China

Road to VR

Razer Chief Executive and co-founder Min-Liang Tan has stated his company’s intent to dominate China’s rapidly growing virtual reality market, with new products built around the OSVR platform, tailored to the region launching next month. See Also: Razer Announces $199 ‘Hacker Dev Kit’ VR Headset as Part of OSVR Initiative.

Razer 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

Despite the fact that a mere 6% of Americans will own a VR headset in 2016, future-looking venture capital firms have invested $500M in the VR/AR industry in Q3 of 2016 , with an average investment of $9.3M. Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company.

AR 362
article thumbnail

Review OSVR HDK2

VR Bites

from Razer. The result was somewhat disappointing, so Razer assisted to show me their latest model. Razer helped me out of that illusion. They clearly stated that the HDK is designed for developers and semi-professionals who like to hack hardware and software. Razer has chosen a dual lens system. Controllers.

Razer 100
article thumbnail

E3 Roundup Day 0: Top 5 Most Important Announcements

Road to VR

The expo floor opens today, but this year’s E3 in Los Angeles has already kicked off with some big names in the industry making fresh commitments to VR on both the software and hardware side of things. Razer Earmarks $5 Million to Encourage OSVR Content Development. Oculus teased over 10 of the upcomming Touch launch titles.

Razer 100
article thumbnail

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

RAZER: ZVENTURES VC FUND – Starting as a hardware company and evolving into a software company as well, Razer is now also growing into an investing company. THE STORY OF THE 2016 NBA FINALS IN VR. The company announced its $5M pre-Series A funding, which was led by WI Harper. …and more. …and more.

Razer 150
article thumbnail

Sounds Good: Valve Acquires 3D Audio Company Impulsonic

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Phonon is a physically-based sound propagation and 3D audio solution that Impulsonic has been developing for use with VR software. It’s been a while since the company has demoed its tech, but you can see (or, more accurately, hear) the state it was in a year ago at CES 2016 below. “We’ll have more to announce soon.”

Razer 100