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EXCLUSIVE: Varjo, a Finnish company that’s working on an ultra-high-fidelity mixed reality headset, announced today that it raised an $ 8.2 million round of series A financing to propel its business towards the launch of its first developer kits. EQT Ventures led the round, with participation from other firms including Lifeline Ventures, the Venture Reality […]
Mira’s Prism headset is a lot like Google Cardboard but for augmented reality, and investors at Greylock Partners think that’s a cool enough idea they led a $ 1 million funding round in the startup. The funding “will be used to provide more resources to the burgeoning developer community” while helping with “Mira’s content partnership initiatives,” according […]
Intel won’t be releasing its Project Alloy VR headset platform anytime this year — in fact, it won’t be releasing the technology at all. The tech giant has officially killed the initiative, which aimed to provide partner companies an open reference design for their own standalone VR devices. Intel was supposed to launch the platform […]
VR’s not-so-meteoric rise has also revived interest in that most sci-fi of concepts: the personal cinema. A head-mounted display that lets you immerse yourself in a movie, blocking out the distractions of modern life. No matter if you’re on a plane or train, you can pretend that you have your very own screening room, like […]
Movie theater attendance has become a problem in recent years due to high ticket prices, poor customer service experiences, and a wealth of entertainment choices from various subscription streaming services. While companies like MoviePass are trying to increase attendance with their own movie ticket subscription plan, one company is trying to make the home theater […]
When Samsung’s Note 8 smartphone launches on September 15, it will be accompanied by a new version of the company’s Gear VR headset, made in partnership with Oculus. This latest iteration doesn’t boast any new features, but Samsung did say that it was the only version of the device the Note 8 would support. Yesterday, however, we received […]
Turtle Beach announced its Stealth 700 wireless headset for Xbox One consoles today. The headset is the first to use Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless technology to connect directly to the console, just as a wireless controller does. The advantage is that you can press a power button on the headset to turn on the console, and […]
ASUS has been teasing us with details of its Windows Mixed Reality headset, but now is ready to let folks try it for themselves. At IFA 2017, we were also able to spend a decent amount of time using the Windows Mixed Reality controllers that will ship with it. The short version of it all […]
This week we got our hands-on the first development kit edition of the HP “Windows Mixed Reality” VR headset. Right off the bat let’s clarify that verbiage. Microsoft is using the term “Mixed Reality” as an umbrella to encapsulate VR, AR, and all other related devices. The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP […]
Razer is bringing its wireless Thresher into the high-end gaming-headset fight. Its PlayStation 4 and Xbox One models launch worldwide for $ 250. That puts it up against competitors like the $ 200 Logitech G933 or the $ 300 Astro A50. As the pricing would suggest, the Thresher squeezes between those headsets in terms of […]
