Virtual World To Help Cope With Phantom Pain
Some people use alternate virtual world programs like Second Life to escape reality, but one researcher is examining whether these same virtual worlds that are used to stimulate the imagination could...
View ArticleOculus Raises $75 Million
Oculus VR has raised a $75 million Series B round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Existing investors Spark Capital, Matrix Partners, and Formation 8 also participated in the round. The post...
View ArticleSony Gets Into Virtual Reality With Morpheus Headsets
Sony is working on a virtual reality (VR) system, dubbed Project Morpheus, that lets players immerse themselves in a simulated 3D world. Sony is also opening up the Morpheus SDK, currently under...
View ArticleFacebook Buys Virtual Reality Company Oculus For $2B
Facebook has reached a definitive agreement to acquire immersive virtual reality technology company Oculus VR, for roughly $2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of...
View ArticleGoogle Uses Cardboard To Bring Virtual Reality To All
Google unveiled Google Cardboard, a DIY enclosure made of cardboard that transforms a phone into a basic virtual reality headset. The company showed off the headsets, costing just a few dollars, at the...
View ArticleSamsungs Gets Into Virtual Reality With Gear VR
Samsung gets into the virtual reality space with the Samsung Gear VR, powered by Oculus technology. The Gear is a result of a deep and integrated partnership with Oculus, a Facebook company, says...
View ArticleAltspaceVR Raises $5.2M
Social virtual reality platform AltspaceVR has raised $5.2 million in seed funding. Investors include Formation 8, Google Ventures, Dolby Family Ventures, Lux Capital, Foundation Capital, SV Angel, and...
View ArticleOculus Launches New Headset Prototype: Crescent Bay
Virtual reality headset-maker Oculus, now owned by Facebook, unveiled a consumer version of the company's virtual headset device, called Crescent Bay at its annual developer conference on Saturday....
View ArticleMagic Leap Raises $542M In Series B Funding
Magic Leap, an augmented reality startup in stealth mode, has raised $542 million in a Series B round of financing. The financing was led by Google, with participation from Qualcomm, through its...
View ArticleMicrosoft Unveils Windows Holographics, HoloLens Headets
Microsoft is getting into the virtual reality space with its just-announced HoloLens, a holographic computer enabled by Windows 10. The head-mounted HoloLens display is expected to be compatible with...
View ArticleVirtual Nose Can Solve Motion Sickness From VR Games, Study Finds
Virtual reality games often cause simulator sickness – inducing vertigo and sometimes nausea – but research findings from the computer graphics technology department at Purdue University, may offer a...
View ArticleOculus Rift Headsets Hit The Stores
Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets will be hitting retail shelves for the first time, starting this May. A limited number of Oculus Rift headsets will be available for purchase from Best Buy stores...
View ArticleStarbreeze, Acer Form Virtual Reality JV
Starbreeze and Acer have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture for the StarVR Virtual Reality (VR) Head-Mounted Display (HMD). The two companies aim to cooperate on the design,...
View ArticleAmerica’s First Dedicated Virtual Reality Roller Coaster Opens In Six Flags
Six Flags St. Louis, in partnership with Samsung Electronics America, is opening its first virtual reality roller coaster on May 29. Riders on the coasters will be wearing Samsung Gear VR powered by...
View ArticleNavy shows off diving helmets with augmented reality; yes, like Iron Man
The US Navy is building on working a helmet for divers that has augmented reality, with functionalities that broadly mimic Tony Stark’s (or rather that of Iron Man) in Marvel movies. Underwater systems...
View ArticleLenovo to use Movidius machine vision technology for virtual reality projects
Ultra-low power machine vision technology company Movidius has inked a partnership with Lenovo to provide vision processing technology to a variety of VR-centric Lenovo products. Under the terms of the...
View ArticleThe Virtual Reality Company raises $23 million to create original VR content
The Virtual Reality Company (VRC), a Los Angeles-based VR production company, has raised $23 million in equity financing. The equity investment was made by Hengxin Mobile Business, a Beijing-based...
View ArticleThe first phone with Google’s augmented reality technology comes from Lenovo
Lenovo is launching Phab2 Pro, the world’s first phone with Tango, the augmented reality (AR) technology from Google. The phones, with a price tag of $499 will be coming to the US later this year....
View ArticleColumbia Engineering researchers develop way to combat VR sickness
Columbia Engineering Professor Steven K. Feiner and Ajoy Fernandes MS’16 say they have developed a method of combating virtual reality (VR) sickness that can be applied to consumer head-worn VR...
View ArticleAppliedVR brings therapeutic virtual reality content to Cedars-Sinai Medical...
AppliedVR is introducing virtual reality technology in the Spine Center, Department of Surgery and Orthopaedic at Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. More such launches are expected in the coming...
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