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The HTC Vive Pro arrives in April for $799, current Vive drops to $499
HTC announced today that the Vive Pro HMD, with an increased resolution of 2880x1600 and built-in headphones, will cost $799, the same price the Vive launched for in 2016. Pre-orders begin today, and shipping of the new headset will begin on April 5. Orders received before June 3 will include a six-month trial for Viveport, which gives you five games of your choice every month.
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Ready Player One: we are surprisingly close to realising just such a VR dystopia
I was fortunate enough to catch a preview screening of Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s futuristic novel. It blew me away. What really caught my attention wasn’t just the awesome references to 1980s pop culture, or the mind-blowing set pieces. It was also the sub-text of the philosophical and cultural impact of gaming and related technologies.
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WipEout Omega Collection's PSVR upgrade arrives today
We already consider it a highly recommended purchase for PlayStation 4 and Pro users, but Sony's WipEout Omega Collection moves to the next level today with a free upgrade that introduces full PlayStation VR support. We've had access to the PS4 Pro version, we've played it extensively - and it's rather special.
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Firefox Reality Is Mozilla's New Browser Built For VR And AR
Mozilla today announced a brand new browser that's built specifically for standalone VR and AR headsets, Firefox Reality.
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Google Brings WebVR to Chrome, All Major PC VR Headsets Supported
Google recently pushed out Chrome 66, the latest update to the company’s web browser. Unbeknownst to the VR community, Google also quietly included WebVR integration for OpenVR-compatible headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.
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Full Sail taps VR to help online students feel less isolated
Online classes are convenient, but they don't feel like college. The Rumii app could fix that.
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Delivering VR in perfect focus with nanostructure meta-lenses
Using nanostructures on a flat piece of glass can make lenses smaller, lighter and much cheaper – while providing better image quality.
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The US army is using virtual reality to train their soldiers to navigate real cities
The Synthetic Training Environment allows soldiers to get to grips with potential war zones.
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Google Demonstrates Promising Low-cost, Mobile Inside-out Controller Tracking
A number of standalone VR headsets will be hitting the market in 2018, but so far none of them offer positional (AKA 6DOF) controller input, one of the defining features of high-end tethered headsets. But we could see that change in the near future, thanks to research from Google which details a system for low-cost...
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Oculus Reveals 140 Degree VR Headset Prototype with Varifocal Displays
Oculus today at F8 overviewed some of the latest VR technology that they’d been working on internally. Among the projects mentioned is the ‘Half Dome’ prototype, a Rift-like headset with a 140 degree field of view, varifocal displays, and what appears to be eye-tracking.
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Wander 'Burning Man' in VR with help from the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian teams with Intel to virtualize Burning Man art.
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This New Educational VR App Teaches Kids About Recycling
A new educational VR app teaches kids in Australia all about recycling, teleporting them to a special facility in Hume with interactive games.
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Virtual Reality Shows Promise in Treating Eating Disorders
Eating disorders can be some of the most difficult mental conditions to treat. Unlike other anxiety or compulsion disorders, the main trigger for an eating disorder—food—is unavoidable. But a new paper suggests that visual exposure in virtual reality (VR) might help patients battle their eating disorder in a physician-controlled environment, complemented with traditional cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).
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In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need?
How connected are your body and your consciousness? When Michiteru Kitazaki, a professor of engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, recently posed this question in an email, he evoked an idea from Japanese culture known as tamashii, or the soul without a body.
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NASA's New VR Demo Puts You on Distant Exoplanets
If you've ever wondered what it's like to stand on an alien planet, NASA has you covered.
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In five years, VR could be as big in the US as Netflix
The media industry has long waited for virtual reality to live up to its potential. PwC projects it may finally be happening.
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VR helps us remember
Researchers at the University of Maryland have found that people remember information better if it is presented in VR vs. on a two-dimensional personal computer. This means VR education could be an improvement on tablet or device-based learning.
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Todd Howard Believes VR Will Finally Blossom During Its 'Third Generation'
Bethesda's Todd Howard recently took to the Gamelab event in Barcelona, Spain to chat with Game Awards founder Geoff Keighley, as well as an interview with GamesBeat about a variety of different topics. During the chats, he had some interesting things to share, namely about Fallout 76, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and various other tidbits. But perhaps one of the most important kernels of information he shared were his thoughts on VR and how it's still going to come into its own.
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'Virtual reality cured my fear of heights'
Fay Nugent developed a fear of heights in her 30s. "It began after I went on a girls' weekend away," she says. "We had gone on an adventure activity called a tree-top walk. "I managed to climb up to do it - but then when it came to stepping out on to the high ropes, I just couldn't do it. "I felt physically ill and panicked, even though I knew I was perfectly safe."
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Virtually Better: How Virtual Reality Is Helping Treat Social Anxiety
We humans are deeply social creatures. We live our lives in the company of others: we work together, eat together, play together, and sleep together. Yet, for some of us, interacting with other people can really be “hell.” The prospect of talking with a stranger, ordering food in a restaurant, or speaking up in a work meeting, can, for some people, be an incredibly daunting and fear-provoking experience. This is very much the case for sufferers of “social anxiety disorder.”
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