Tom's Hardware's GDC 2017 Highlights By Tom's Hardware News Team In which we recap the highlights from our time at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2017.
Microsoft Debuts Acer-Made Mixed Reality HMD Dev Kit (Updated) By Seth Colaner Today at GDC, Microsoft announced that an Acer-made HMD dev kit that bears the ungainly title of Acer Windows 10 Mixed Reality Development Edition is nigh.
Real-Time Cinematic VR Rendering With Epic Games And The Mill By Seth Colaner They call it the Blackbird. It looks like a dune buggy with a fancy camera rig on top, and in truth, that’s kind of what it is, but that’s not what it’s for.
Khronos Bolsters VR, AR, MR Markets With OpenXR Working Group, API Updates, More By Nathaniel Mott OpenXR, along with the Vulkan API, WebGL, and glTF, are meant to help VR and AR game developers support more hardware platforms with less hassle.
HoloLens Heads To The Operating Room By Seth Colaner Microsoft announced that it’s partnering with a medical technology company called Stryker to use HoloLens to design better operating rooms.
Magic Leap Acquiring Dacuda's 3D Scanning Assets By Seth Colaner Magic Leap, the secretive MR startup with a sky-high valuation, is acquiring 3D scanning software company Dacuda. Or at least, parts of it.
Hugo Barra To Lead Facebook's VR Efforts By Nathaniel Mott Barra, who previously worked at Google and Xiaomi, will lead Facebook's virtual reality (VR) work following Palmer Luckey's PR disaster and Brendan Iribe's resignation.
App Annie: 'Pokémon Go' Made Almost $1B In 2016 By Nathaniel Mott Still don't believe 2016 was the year augmented reality (AR) went mainstream? A new report from the App Annie mobile analytics firm says otherwise, thanks to "Pokémon Go."
Inside-Out Position Tracking Software For VR, AR Device OEMs: Eonite Announces Vantage Head Tracker By Kevin Carbotte
4K Mobile Device Panels, 120Hz Displays For VR, AR Devices From Analogix Semiconductor’s SlimPort Receivers By Kevin Carbotte
ODG Introduces Consumer AR Device That Looks Like Sunglasses By Kevin Carbotte Osterhout Design Group (ODG) revealed its eighth and ninth generation AR glasses during CES 2017. For the first time, ODG has a consumer facing product to show, and it’s kind of a big deal.
Lenovo's VR HMD, Such As It Is By Seth Colaner Lenovo had a non-working prototype of its merged reality VR HMD on display at CES. Here's what we know and don't know about the device so far.
