Last week, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Quest store content sales have passed the $1 billion mark. The platform, which was launched in 2019, is home to a range of VR apps and games for use with Meta Quest headsets. This represents a quadrupling in their average monthly revenue with sales skyrocketing … Continue reading Quest Store Sales Surpass $1 Billion
While the first Oculus Rift headsets, whether developer or retail, offered a properly immersive and present experience. However, they still had some major areas where improvement was necessary. Now we’re starting to see a new generation of high-end headset that seems to address what early modern VR has needed since day one. JVC, yes the … Continue reading JVC Shows Off XR Headset With Insane Field Of View
Everyone has been rather excited at the news of the Oculus Quest. A proper 6DoF, all-in-one mobile VR headset seems like the perfect product to help get the VR market where it deserves to be. While Oculus has already announced the product, the actual release of the Quest is still some time away. With only … Continue reading Shadow VR Beats Oculus Quest to the 6DoF Punch
Modern VR is pretty incredible, but the technology still has major shortcomings when it comes to visual quality. Even with the incredibly pixel-dense LCD and OLED panels of today, its still hard to do high-resolution, sharp VR images. The hardware inside the Oculus Rift is fantastic for immersing us in spacecraft or the treehouses of … Continue reading VR Startup Varjo Promises VR Sharpness Revolution
Another January brings us another dose of the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and CES 2018 is one of if not the biggest showcases for tech in the world this year. The last couple of years have been rather interesting for VR, with 2016 being the grand party to celebrate the first true … Continue reading Top 10 VR Highlights at CES 2018
Another year has brought another festival of the future in the form of the winter Consumer Entertainment Show. Amidst the curved televisions, 8k, Bluetooth toasters and robots that can do anything from nannying kids to playing Cards Against Humanity, VR had an important presence at CES, with a mix of interesting experiments to technological boosts … Continue reading Top Ten VR Highlights from CES 2017
What are Head-mounted Displays? If you’ve ever watched TV or browsed the internet, the phrase ‘Virtual Reality’ probably conjures up a very specific image in your mind: that awesome helmet. Well, they’re real. They’re called head-mounted displays, or HMDs, and they are probably the most instantly recognizable objects associated with virtual reality. As such, they … Continue reading Head-mounted Displays (HMDs)
HMD Name: Fove (Developer kit) Designer: Fove Website: http://www.getfove.com/ Estimated price $350 (Developer kit) Display type: LCD (not final) Resolution: 1280×1440 per eye Field of view: 45 degrees (100+ projected feature) Head tracking: Yes Eye Tracking: Yes, infrared, 120fps per eye Audio: Own headphones (projected feature) Refresh rate: 60Hz (90Hz projected) Latency: TBA/Unknown Optics: TBA/Unknown … Continue reading Fove Virtual Reality Headset
Brain injuries are a touchy topic in sports such as boxing and American football. Repeated strikes to the head can have a devastating effect on the long-term health of players. Sometimes the results of this accumulated damage only becomes apparent in autopsies. One study found that 78% of football players exhibited signs of brain disease … Continue reading VR Could Be Saving Brains in Contact Sports
On February 16th, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on the Morning Brew Daily podcast to talk about everything from the launch of the Apple headset and AI to his growing interest in raising cattle. During the interview, Zuck indicated that a finger-tracking neural wristband would launch within the next few years. At the moment, virtual … Continue reading Zuckerberg Suggests Meta Neural Wristband Will Launch “In Next Few Years”
