Augmented Reality

At WinHEC, Microsoft detailed a range of specs and features we can expect to see on the incoming wave of mainstream-level VR HMDs from OEMs such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo.

At WinHEC, the next chapter of Wintel VR unfolds in a mess of ideas, ethos, and things.

Augmented reality company CastAR is bringing its "mixed reality gaming and entertainment platform" to market in 2017.

Lenovo will be the first to market with a smartphone that comes with Google's Project Tango: the Phab 2 Pro

Immersed 2016 ran from October 16 -18, and there were plenty of exhibits to take in, but none of them were quite as impressive as the Vrvana Totem mixed reality headset.

Take a regular smartphone. Add Dacuda's SLAM Scan software and any mobile HMD. Now you have a mobile, 6DoF, roomscale VR solution.

CastAR recently resurfaced with news that it took on a new CEO, and today CastAR announced the opening of a new development studio in Salt Lake City to drive its product to retail.

Mixed reality video with photorealistic graphics from Unreal Engine is coming to live TV productions in 2017 thanks to The Future Group's Frontier Interactive Mixed Reality technology.

The old Wintel paradigm is re-emerging, and this time the two tech giants are tackling the VR, AR, MR (XR) market. Here is their plan.

Movidius' Myriad 2 VPU already powers Microsoft's HoloLens and Google's Project Tango. The acquisition would merge the VPU with Intel's RealSense technology.