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Varjo announces XR-4 mixed reality headset with impressive resolution

The Ghost Howls

The controllers have been made in partnership with Razer Integrated Audio Varjo finally tuned in in 2023 and understood that this year shipping a new headset without integrated audio is a huge WTF. So the Varjo XR-4 finally features integrated speakers and microphones.

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Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M.

AllThingsVR

Funding Roundup: InstaVR Raises $2M & iStaging Raises $5M Series A & Razer Creates $30M Fund To Invest In Games, Tech, and VR InstaVR , a San Francisco, CA-based virtual reality (VR) authoring, publishing, and analysis company, closed a $2M series A equity funding round. The round was led by The Venture Reality Fund.

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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. You need quite a bit of technical knowledge if you want to use the OSVR (Open Source Virtual Reality). For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor.

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‘Half-Life 2: VR’ Mod Gets Green-lit on Steam in 4 Days

Road to VR

Those who have been following the modern VR era since the beginning may recall the original HLVR mod launched in 2013 that was well ahead of it’s time, offering motion-controller input via the Razer Hydra, literally years before Oculus or Valve would announce their own VR controllers. Sadly, it wouldn’t last.

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Intel Doubles Down on VR and AR, Calls it Merged Reality

VRWorld

Slowly but certainly, Intel is unveiling its “Merged Reality” strategy. About a year and a half ago, Intel invested in Razer bringing the valuation of the said company to north of $1 billion. Exactly a year ago, that investment expanded with the launch of Open Source Virtual Reality or OSVR.

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Khronos Announces an Open VR Standard Initiative

VRWorld

The Khronos Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and software companies, have just announced a call for participation in a new initiative to define a cross-vendor, royalty-free, open standard for access to modern virtual reality (VR) devices. This situation may also result in sub-optimal display driver optimizations.

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A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES

Road to VR

Virtual reality has figured prominently at the event in recent years of course, quickly rising to become one of the shows hottest technologies. The most infamous example is of course, the legendary 3DHead system. CES 2015 brought yet more impressive advancements from VR and AR fields, and some notable setbacks.