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AR Stocks Predicted to Shine in Stock Market

May 3, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Although VR is more well-known in comparison to AR, many large technology companies are looking towards AR and mixed reality for the future. According to US News and World Report, “Chris Curran, chief technologist at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas, says according to his company’s 2016 Global Digital IQ Survey (which included more than 2,000 IT and business […]

HTC

HTC Hires Former Disney Exec Paul Brown as Vive Europe’s General Manager

May 3, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Today, HTC announced that they have appointed five year Disney vet, Paul Brown, as their newest Vive Europe General Manager. While at Disney, Brown served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital D2C and Disney Interactive. He also spent a year and a half at Spotify as Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. […]

VR News

Chet Faliszek leaves Valve and SteamVR

May 2, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

It was announced today that Chet Faliszek, writer and VR evangelist, is leaving Valve after 12 years. Valve is the company that created SteamVR’s platform. Faliszek assured gameindustry.biz that his decision to leave had no hard feelings or ill will behind it. “It was nothing exciting or drama filled,” he wrote of his departure. “I worked […]

HTC Vive

Who wants to have a ‘Séance’?

May 2, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Turn off the lights, and get ready to feel the forgotten adrenaline rush of anticipated childhood terror. I mean, who doesn’t like a good ghost story, am I right? Starting today, Holospark is releasing a free 5-minute demo of their new VR experience, Séance: The Unquiet, on Steam and the Oculus Store. Enter the haunted house where “a family confronts […]

Google Daydream VR

Standup Comedy Goes Virtual Tomorrow

April 26, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Tomorrow, April 27, AltspaceVR will be hosting ‘Comedy Living Room’s’ virtual, live standup show. ‘Comedy Living Room’ is a live comedy show, hosted in a living room. Created in 2012 by comedy fans and roommates Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz, these entertaining minds thought it would cool to host a stand-up show in their living room for their […]

VR Experience

Free Limited Edition Xenko Game Engine Available Through July

April 25, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Silicon Studio (game makers and middleware pioneers) is celebrating today’s launch of their new Xenko Game Engine, by giving away a free version through July 31, 2017. All users can access the engine’s unrestricted Pro plan at no cost and with no registration requirements until end of July. Xenko is an open-source game engine with the […]

360 Video

GoPro Releases New VR Camera Called ‘Fusion’

April 24, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

GoPro announced the release of their new VR camera, the Fusion, last week via their blog. The company’s latest offering joins the throng of other 360° cameras released in the past week. This is GoPro’s first camera capable of VR. According to GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman, GoPro Fusion has “the ability to capture every angle simultaneously… as though you […]

360 Video

Nokia Announces a New Slate of Enhancements for OZO Reality

April 24, 2017 Alexandra Sedor

Nokia has announced the launch of OZO Reality, an updated set of technologies for supporting improved VR creation, delivery, and user experience, at Las Vegas’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention which started on April 22nd and will run until the 27th. “There is virtual reality, and then there is OZO Reality: our vision for […]

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