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Google Announces First Daydream-Ready VR Phone – Breaking

Road to VR

Brian Rakowski, VP Product Management at Google, showed off Pixel’s hardware on stage boasting a Snapdragon 821, AMOLED capacitive touchscreen on both phones, 5-inch for Pixel and 5.5-inch The XL however, matches it’s samsung’s rivals with a similar QHD screen. inch for Pixel XL. This story is breaking.

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Big XR News from Meta, HaptX, Siemens, and Apple

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Meta is committed to its immersive product portfolio and has recently released significant hardware and software updates just before the report’s release. The new smart glasses are available for pre-order in 15 regions, covering the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe. Meta’s Q1 total revenue was $36.5

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Viveport’s Play at Home Sale Offers Massive Reduction on Infinity Subscription

Peter Graham

The sale runs until this Sunday, 19th April, available in the following countries: US, Canada, France, UK, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Russia, and South Korea. It’ll even support Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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Women In VR spotlight: Lee and Jordan Brighton talk about Run Dorothy Run.

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We built one of the first content management systems in Australia; we were also one of the early application service providers (before it was known as SaaS), and we’re again bringing a platform or “engine” approach to how we build games. We’re proud of our systemized approach to leveraging new technologies. And how has it?

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What is the Valve Index? Everything you need to know: features, specs, price and how to preorder it!

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Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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FOVE Launches Pre-Orders For Eye-Tracking VR Headset FOVE 0, Starting at $549

Road to VR

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups. Minimum Hardware Requirements. Accessories: Position tracking camera / Face cushion.

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Crytek-Incubated ‘VR First’ Program to Double Number of Academic VR/AR Labs in 2017

Road to VR

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. North Metropolitan TAFE, Australia. image courtesy VR First. Oklahoma State University, USA.

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