• ELECTRONICS
    Huawei VR Headset With 360-diploma Sound launched for P9 Flagship

    Telecommunications massive Huawei already makes smartphones, capsules, smartwatches, and fitnessbands, other than of direction, telecommunications equipment. The organisation but last weekaccelerated its product line up by launching its own virtual fact headset, the Huawei VR, at an occasion in Shanghai, China. The wearable device appears to imitate the layout and functionality from that of the […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    HTC Vive VR Headset’s International Pricing, Bundled Apps Revealed

    On the same day Microsoft began accepting pre-orders for the HoloLens Development Edition and unveiled a shipping date for it, HTC too had something to say about its HTC Vive. The Taiwanese company – which announced the price, pre-orders, and shipping dates for its consumer virtual reality headset at MWC – revealed the international pricing […]

  • NEWS
    Patient Wears VR Headset During Brain Surgery

    In a world first, a patient in France undergoing brain surgery while conscious wore virtual reality glasses as doctors removed a cancerous tumour, the chief surgeon told AFP Tuesday. “In creating a completely artificial world for the patient, we could map certain zones and connections of his brain related to functions that we could not, […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Google Launches VR View Tool For Easy VR Content Embedding

    Google on Wednesday introduced VR View, a tool to let developers easily embed 360-degree virtual reality photos and videos on Android, iOS, and the Web. The content can be viewed using the Google Cardboard or a single lens “Magic Window” viewer. The Mountain View-based tech giant also expanded its accessibility by adding iOS support to […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Oculus Rift VR Headset Shipments Delayed Due to Component Shortage

    Facebook-owned Oculus VR last month started shipping its Rift virtual reality headset to those who pre-ordered it earlier this year. Company Founder Palmer Luckey himself delivered the first order of the headset. However, the company is now facing an unexpected component shortage because of which the shipping dates of the wearable device for some buyers […]

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    Samsung Gear VR Update Brings WebVR Support to the Headset

    Samsung, after having a dedicated Web browser for its Gear VR headset, is now expanding the wearable device’s coverage by adding experimental support for WebVR, a work-in-progress standard for virtual reality devices to access VR content in browsers. This comes as a part of Samsung Internet for Gear VR 1.0 update, which until now was […]

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    Low-Cost VR Headsets Will Boost Virtual Reality in India

    Once the virtual reality (VR) phenomenon explodes, India, with its huge smartphone base, will be a key market – but VR players will have to come up with low-cost options to entice the country’s “digital” consumers. According to experts, head-mounted devices (HMDs) that create an immersive virtual world for users is the future after the […]

  • ALL DEALS
    Assassin’s Creed Film to Get Tie-In VR Experience

    During AMD’s presentation at the 2016 Game Developer Conference on Monday night, Ubisoft and VR content maker Practical Magic unveiled a virtual reality tie-in experience for the Assassin’s Creed film which is slated for a December-end release this year. (Also see: Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: Russia Review) Speaking at the event, president of Practical Magic VR […]