Two days ago I wrote my fancy predictions about augmented reality for this new year, so today I guess it’s the turn of its cousin virtual reality. AR is far behind VR, so there was less news to talk about: regarding VR, instead, in 2017 we have seen a bazillion of interesting (and sometimes) unexpected […]
Some weeks ago I dedicated an article on Vive Focus and Vive Wave. This is a new standalone 6DOF virtual reality headset announced by HTC and that will be initially sold in China and then in the rest of the world. During the announcement event, few details of the headset have been revealed and only […]
Yesterday, during Vive Developer Conference in Beijing, Vive China president has announced two great news for the company: the standalone headset Vive Focus and the mobile VR platform Vive Wave. The event has taken place in China and these announcements will regard only the Chinese market, but I think that in the long term these […]
Hello everyone! One of the first posts of this blog was written to help people in choosing the right headset for them. It has been written in August 2016 and I think that too much time has passed by for that to still be valid: OSVR is a project that is slowly dying (at least in […]
We all know that Oculus and Vive are now discounted to $399 and $599, so they cost a lot less than when they originally came out. On all VR communities there are people that now are willing to buy a headset due to the cheaper price and are unsure which one to buy. Oculus or […]
We all know that Oculus has slashed down the price for its Oculus Rift CV1, offering the bundle Oculus Rift + Oculus Touch at only $399. The “Summer of Rift” initiative has caused a flooding of Rift purchases, with lots of people going to Reddit each day to announce that they’ve bought a brand new […]
Virtual reality and Augmented reality are two of the buzz words of the moment. These technologies are forecasted to become the next technological revolution: according to many experts we are in a moment of disruption, exactly as we were when the first smartphone has been released. A lot of startups are growing inside this VR […]
Some days ago we were all excited about the news of the upcoming new controllers for SteamVR system: the Knuckles. And we still are. These controllers appear as an Oculus Touch 2.0, since as Oculus Touch they’re controllers you wear in hands, that offer precise hands and fingers tracking, but are more ergonomic and offer […]
Yesterday everyone was excited in talking about Apple entrance in the AR/VR world, while I was actually excited by another news: the upgrade of Lighthouse tracking of SteamVR. After having leaked various previews in the last months, Valve has officially announced the upgrade with a community post. Let’s see together what this announcement is and […]
Last week has finished with a big boom for virtual reality: at Google I/O conference, Google has announced its upcoming Standalone headsets. In this post I’ll try to describe all the main information about this and all other AR/VR news they’ve announced… information that are splattered around dozens of posts around the web and that […]
Yesterday finally we got to know the price of the Vive Tracker and all other add-ons Vive revealed at CES! If you forgot what I’m talking about, you can have a look at my wonderful previous post about it or you can go on to refresh your memory. Basically Vive got lot of hype announcing […]
