Kevin Carbotte

If you invested in Bitcoin in December, today is going to be a bad day for you. Following an announcement from India's Finance Minister, the cryptocurrency took a hard tumble in the last 24 hours and washed away the recent gains.

VR Cover revealed a new product in its lineup of hygienic, washable, fabric covers for VR headsets. Now, the company offers washable covers for the integrated headphones that some HMDs offer.

Nolo VR, the creator of the Nolo 6DoF Motion Tracking kit for mobile and desktop VR devices, announced Nolo Home, a content distribution platform for 6DoF content on mobile devices.

Caffeine announced a new livestreaming platform with real-time social interaction and a simple one-click setup process with no third-party apps. Caffeine also prioritizes messages from people in your social circle to make livestreams more personal.

Survios today announced that "Sprint Vector" would be available on all three major VR platforms in February. The developer just completed a closed beta trial, and now it’s confident the game is ready for primetime.

Bethesda will roll out an update to "Doom VFR" on Steam today to introduce smooth locomotion to the game. The update will also enable support for Windows Mixed Reality headsets.

Pimax released a post-CES progress update that confirms our suspicions: The company won’t be able to live up to its delivery window promises. The company revised its shipping target from Q1 to Q2, 2018.

Vuzix announced that the demand for the Vuzix Blade beta developer kits outpaced the company’s expectation. The company launced the Blade Edge program to allow more developers to create content for the Vuzix Blade Smartglasse.

Plex today introduced Plex VR, an immersive media viewer for Google’s Daydream platform that offers an interactive, social VR environment for viewing streamed, broadcasted, or recorded video content from your Plex DVR or Plex Media Server.

Visbit launched a new VR video player that supports 360-degree stereoscopic video at up to 8K resolution. The Visbit 8K VR Player will debut on the Vive Focus platform, and the company plans to expand support to other headsets and mobile devices later.

Intel launched a new generation of RealSense depth cameras this week, and they feature stereo cameras, updated depth modules, and Intel RealSense D4 vision processors. But these cameras aren’t built for consumers; these are for developers.

Dell announced that it would begin selling Meta 2 Augmented Reality developer kits next month. The company wants to make AR more accessible and plans to offer the Meta 2 headset with and without bundled computers.

2017 was a banner year for cryptocurrencies, but it could all be coming crashing down in 2018. For the second day in a row, the values of nearly all the top 100 cryptocurrencies are tumbling hard.

Sixa’s Rivvr wireless VR solution is back from the dead. The company announced that pre-orders are open again, and the hardware would ship in March. And this time around, the device meets all the necessary certification requirements.

Oculus quietly added a new product to the Oculus Rift accessory lineup. The company now allows you to order individual left and right Touch controllers—even if you’re probably better off buying two anyway.

Survios announced that it would be running closed beta testing for its upcoming VR game, "Sprint Vector," from Friday, January 19 until Sunday, January 28.

HTC released a major update to the Viveport VR content distribution platform this week, which introduced a novel VR content preview system and a new virtual home environment from which to access your content library.

Tactical Haptics revealed a VR peripheral that can be reconfigured for different game mechanics on-the-fly, so you can switch from wielding a sword, using a two-handed weapon, and driving a car, all with the same controller and without leaving VR.

During CES 2018, TPCast revealed the upcoming second generation of the company’s wireless VR system. The new device, dubbed TPCast Plus, is an all-around improved product that should put to rest the complaints about the original model.

Lenovo revealed the upcoming Mirage Camera, a point-and-shoot VR camera powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon SoC. The new device supports Google’s YouTube VR180 platform, Google Photos, and the Google Daydream VR platform.

HumanEyes introduced a new version of its Vuze VR camera called the Vuze+, which includes improved lenses, better audio capture hardware, and stronger dust and water protection. The Vuze+ is also capable of livestreaming.

Oculus announced that it formed a strategic partnership Xiaomi and Qualcomm to bring affordable standalone VR to the worldwide market. Xiaomi signed on to build the Snapdragon-powered Oculus Go headset, and it will make a Xiaomi-branded clone for China.

HTC today announced that later this year it would release a wireless accessory for the Vive based on Intel’s WiGig technology. The new device would enable a tether-free VR experience for the current Vive and the upcoming Vive Pro.

Today, at CES, HTC introduced the Vive Pro, a new VR HMD which features updated display panels that produce a crisper, clearer image. It also offers support for Valve’s updated tracking system.