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Meta on Thursday announced the Quest 3, its next generation all-in-one untethered VR/MR headset. The updated headset is based around a newer Qualcomm SoC for VR/MR applications, offering increased performance, a higher resolution display, improved controllers, an all-new 6-degree-of-freedom (6DoF) positional tracking system, and backwards compatibility with existing software developed for existing the Quest headset. Meta's Quest 3 comes with the company's 'highest resolution display yet' coupled with slimmed down optics assembly to make the device thinner. Meta is not disclosing the display resolution or refresh rate just yet, but it is reasonable to expect that it exceeds per eye resolution of 1832x1920 resolution and 72 – 120 Hz refresh rate range featured on the Quest 2. Meta says that the Quest 3 has a...
HTC & Intel Partner on WiGig Wireless for Vive VR Headset
HTC's doing a little Spring cleaning, and it's starting with all the wires protruding from its headsets. The company announced today at Computex 2017 that it has partnered with...
9 by Ryan Smith on 5/30/2017Dell Launches 'VR Ready' XPS 27 AIO: 4K, Core i7-7700, Radeon RX 570, 10 Speakers
Dell has launched a new version of their XPS 27 all-in-one gaming PC. The VR Ready flavor of the XPS 27 has the same 4K display and the same...
29 by Anton Shilov on 5/27/2017Google I/O 2017: New AR/VR Experiences
Today at its annual developer conference, Google made several announcements about what augmented and virtual reality projects it and its partners have been working on. Google just launched its...
18 by Matt Humrick on 5/17/2017HTC Announces New Standalone Vive VR Headset with Google Daydream Support
Today at Google I/O 2017, Google and HTC announced a new Daydream VR compatible Vive headset. This new device in the Vive family is a standalone unit that does...
14 by Matt Humrick on 5/17/2017Acer Announces Holo 360° Camera with Integrated 4G LTE
Acer has demonstrated a new camera designed to capture 360° videos and can upload content to the Internet without a PC or a smartphone. The Holo 360 camera is...
6 by Anton Shilov on 5/1/2017AMD Announces Radeon Pro Duo (Polaris) - Double Polaris for Content Creation
Back in 2016 AMD launched the Radeon Pro Duo, an interesting take on a semi-pro workstation card. As a dual-GPU Fiji card wasn’t going to be viable for the...
36 by Ryan Smith on 4/25/2017AMD Acquires 60 GHz Wireless IP and Staff from Nitero
AMD on Tuesday announced that it had acquired millimeter wave radio-related intellectual property and key engineers from Nitero. Nitero specialized in radio technology for the 60 GHz range, which...
19 by Anton Shilov on 4/15/2017CyberLink Launches PowerDVD 17 with UHD Blu-ray and VR HMD Support
CyberLink has been regularly updating their multimedia playback software / PC DVD & Blu-ray players. While ArcSoft dropped out of the software Blu-ray player market a few years back...
29 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2017GDC 2017 Roundup: VR for All - Pico Neo CV, Tobii, & HTC
Now that I’ve wrapped up the major GDC product launches, I want to spend a bit of time talking about the rest of GDC. The annual show has always been...
5 by Ryan Smith on 3/13/2017Basemark Releases VRScore, a VR & VR Headset Benchmark Suite for Windows
Back in 2015 as the development of the first generation of modern VR headsets was coming to a close, benchmark developer Basemark announced that they would be applying their...
5 by Ryan Smith on 1/30/2017Kopin at CES 2017: 2K120 VR, Whisper Voice Recognition
If you’ve never heard of Kopin before, you’re probably like most people. Going into CES I had no idea what Kopin was, but it turns out that they’re actually...
5 by Joshua Ho on 1/6/2017Oculus VR Acquires The Eye Tribe, Developer of Eye Tracking Technologies
It has been announced that Oculus VR as bought The Eye Tribe, a company known for its eye tracking hardware and software technologies, earlier in December. Facebook’s VR division...
17 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2016Zotac ZBOX MAGNUS EN1080 SFF PC Review: A Premium Gaming Powerhouse
Gaming systems and small form-factor (SFF) PCs have emerged as bright spots in the desktop PC market that has been subject to severe challenges recently. Many vendors have tried...
38 by Ganesh T S on 12/19/2016Christmas Game Bundles: Civilization VI, Doom, Hitman, Serious Sam VR from AMD, HTC, & NVIDIA
In recent days AMD, NVIDIA and HTC have initiated three new free game campaigns in an attempt to attract attention of gamers to their hardware. AMD will add a...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/14/2016The Khronos Group Announces New Standards Collaboration for VR Integration
It’s no secret that at this early point in the lifecycle of VR that there are many different platforms, solutions and paths to choose from when it comes to...
13 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/7/2016ZOTAC VR GO Backpack PC Gets Priced: Core i7-6700T, GeForce GTX 1070, $1999
ZOTAC this week plans to start sales of its VR GO backpack PC designed for virtual reality enthusiasts. The system uses a quad-core processor from Intel, and is equipped...
14 by Anton Shilov on 11/30/2016MSI Releases the 'VR One': A Backpack PC For VR From $1999
MSI has started to sell its VR One backpack PC designed for virtual reality enthusiasts. The MSI VR One system is now available in the US, and comes equipped...
20 by Anton Shilov on 11/21/2016Alienware 13 R3: Quad-Core CPU, GeForce GTX 1060, QHD OLED, VR Ready
Alienware last week introduced the third generation of its 13” gaming notebooks. The manufacturer describes its new Alienware 13 R3 machines as the world’s first 13-inch laptops capable of...
45 by Anton Shilov on 11/10/2016ZOTAC Announces VR GO Backpack PC with GeForce GTX 1070
ZOTAC this week has formally introduced its VR GO backpack PC designed for virtual reality enthusiasts. The system is equipped with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1070 graphics, a quad-core CPU...
30 by Anton Shilov on 11/2/2016Oculus Touch Controllers Shipping In December for $199
Back when the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets launched earlier this year, one of the main differentiating features was the inclusion of touch/motion controllers. The Rift was...
14 by Ryan Smith on 10/6/2016