Products
Augmented Reality Market To Hit $175B By 2026: ABI Research
Growth and demand are spread across both enterprise and consumer
Virtual Reality
Products
Trying Out the World’s Most Advanced AR/VR Headset
My experience with the Varjo XR-1 and the Varjo Workspace Dimensional Interface
Products
It’s For Real: New Age Teams With HTC Vive For VR
Offerings include newest premium stand-alone headset
CES
Consumers Aren’t Terribly Impressed With Home VR
Enthusiasm is waning, so what does the future hold?
CES
Sports Fans Are About To Get Their ‘Jet Packs’
Immersive technology's on cusp of unlocking hyper-realistic experiences.
CTA
CTA Adds VR & AR To Free Standards Library
Category expected to generate $1.2 billion in revenue this year
Products
Walmart’s Virtual Shopping Tour Is Waiting To Take You Away
Perusing an apartment in 3D and VR
Products
Apple Readying VR Headset: Report
Apple may be working on a headset that combines virtual reality and augmented reality.
Products
Sony Demos Augmented Reality Air Hockey
Sony's A(I)R Hockey is on display at Sony Square NYC.
Products
Samsung Debuts VR Content Series
Grant program provides indie filmmakers with pro 360 cam, distribution on Oculus store
Products
Alibaba Advances VR Effort AT MWC 2018
Teams with iStaging for smartphone app integration into Tmall platform
Products
Do AR & VR Have Real Shots In Retail?
Tom Campbell, corporate director for Video & Audio Center, discusses the retail prospects (and hurdles) for virtual reality and augmented reality.
CES
Sony Unveils Second-Gen Bravia OLED (Sans Easel) At CES 2018
Rather than spending a lot of time on new products, Sony's Hirai instead spent the majority of his unusually brief CES presentation on the...
Accessories
Cleer Brings Headphones Quartet To CES
Cleer officially took the wraps off the new products it’s bringing to CES 2018, and the lineup includes a pair of completely wireless in-ear...
CES
VRIF To Present Its 1st Virtual-Reality Industry Guidelines At CES 2018
Will host masterclass addressing production, distribution and more
news
VR 20/20 2017: Virtual Reality A Game-Changer
Lisa Martinez Gilpin, global head of news and publishing at Google Play, broke down the attributes of both virtual reality and augmented reality at...
news
VR, AR Headset Market Poised For Growth
IDC is forecasting significant growth for the virtual reality and augmented reality headset market. The firm expects the market to reach 13.7 million units...
news
A Virtual-Reality Data Crunch Is Coming: Juniper
The coming VR revolution may be delayed by heavy traffic. A new report from Juniper Research forecasts that data consumption by wireless virtual-reality headsets,...
news
Alphabet Spells P-R-O-F-I-T
Alphabet’s revenue continues its upward streak as the Android, Google and YouTube parent saw second-quarter earnings growth of 21 percent year over year. The...
news
Samsung Announces New VR Partnerships With UFC, X-Games, Live Nation
Samsung has inked deals with UFC, X Games and Live Nation to stream select live events in virtual reality. Samsung’s VR Live Pass on...
news
Monster Digital Teams With Petra To Bring Virtual Reality To The Masses
Monster Digital’s products are about to become available to a much wider audience thanks to a recent deal with Petra Industries. Monster Digital, an...
news
Facebook Takes Deeper Dive Into Augmented Reality
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the phone as the bridge product to the widespread adoption of augmented reality (AR), and the company is basing...
news
Vuzix To Build Smart Glasses For Toshiba
Vuzix, a manufacturer of augmented-reality smart glasses, announced it will build smart glasses for Toshiba Client Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Toshiba Corporation....
news
Tour The White House In 360-Degree VR
President Obama and the first lady gave a tour of the White House residence and the West Wing using 360-degree virtual reality. The video,...
news
CES 2017: 3dRudder Promises Deeper VR Experience
3dRudder will bring its VR motion controller to CES 2017 next month. The device, also called the 3dRudder, is billed as the only foot-powered...
news
Sony, Samsung, HTC, Acer, Facebook & Google Form Global Virtual Reality Association
A team of VR-headset manufacturers have banded together to form the Global Virtual Reality Association. The non-profit organization will “promote the growth of the...
news
Vuzix Next-Gen Smart Glasses Poised For Nov. Shipments
Vuzix said it will begin shipping its next-generation augmented reality smart glasses, the Vuzix M300, this month. The M300 is in the final stages...
news
Universal Music Group Kicks Off VR App For Live Concerts With Avenged Sevenfold
The music industry is beginning to embrace virtual reality. Universal Music Group (UMG) is launching a new mobile VR app called VRTGO that will...
news
Tessera To Acquire DTS For $850 Million
Tessera Technologies, a manufacturer of imaging and semiconductor packaging and bonding technologies, will acquire DTS in a cash deal valued around $850 million. DTS’s...
news
360 Video: Virtual Reality’s Path To The Mainstream
Video has proven to be an early driver of Samsung’s Oculus-powered Gear VR. Immersive and interactive games tend to get top billing at this...
news
Intel To Acquire Movidius To Strengthen RealSense Computer Vision
Intel said it will acquire Movidius, a manufacturer of ultra-low-power visual intelligence, as it prepares for a “Cambrian explosion of compute.” Readying for...
news
Virtual Reality: Samsung Gear VR, Powered by Oculus
TWICE VIP Award 2016 Winner! With the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus, consumers can find themselves in a whole new world with the...
news
Yuneec SkyView Gives You A Drone’s-Eye View
Yuneec is merging two of the hottest tech categories in retail: virtual reality and drones. The company’s SkyView first-person view (FPV) headset enables users...
news
Technicolor Opens Experience Center To Develop VR Content
Technicolor announced a new dedicated space for the creation of virtual-reality content. The Technicolor Experience Center will focus on developing VR, augment reality and...
news
You Can Now Buy Merge VR’s Soft Purple VR Goggles At Best Buy
Merge VR continues its retail expansion with its colorful VR headset that saddles the fence between all-but-free Cardboard headsets and high-end Oculus Rifts. The...
news
‘World’s Smallest 360 Camera’ Launches On Indiegogo
Nicovr, a Shanghai-based technology start-up, has launched what it is calling “the world’s smallest consumer 360-degree camera.” The Nico360 VR camera is cube that...
news
T-Mobile Techs Up MLB’s All-Star Home Run Derby
T-Mobile is swinging for the fences at this year’s MLB All-Star Home Run Derby. The un-carrier is the official sponsor of the T-Mobile Home...
news
Acer Officially Entering VR Headset Market
Acer and Sweden-based game creator Starbreeze AB have officially formed a previously announced joint venture to bring virtual-reality headsets to the market. The new...