Virtual & Augmented Reality news

Teens are split on the metaverse, most barely use VR headsets, survey shows  PC GamerA new VR game wants us to escape the metaverse  CNETWhy AR, not VR, will be the heart of the metaverse  VentureBeatWhy you should care about Facebook's big push into the metaverse  Vox.com9 Virtual Reality Headsets to Enjoy the Exciting World Of Metaverse  Interesting EngineeringView Full Coverage on Google News

‘Pokémon Go’ studio Niantic announced Peridot today, its latest game which the company says leans further into AR than prior projects.
When developer Niantic launched Pokémon Go back in 2016, many heralded it as ‘the first major augmented reality game’. But as I argued at the time, it really wasn’t ‘augmented reality’ at all… but merely a ‘location-based’ game (lest we want to call Google Maps an ‘AR’ app

Fixing up an old tower without tools sounds tough, but much less so when you have an army of robotic clones at your disposal. That’s the idea at least behind The Last Clockwinder, a VR automation game from Pontoco which is slated to hit Quest 2 and SteamVR headsets sometime in Summer 2022.Update (April 13th, 2022): The Last Clockwinder developer Pontoco announced today that it has signed on with Cyan Ventures (the publishing arm of Cyan Worlds, ,the studio behind Myst,&

Pico Interactive’s consumer-ready standalone VR headset could pose a serious threat to the Meta Quest 2During the 2022 Laval Virtual event in France earlier today, Pico Interactive, a VR hardware manufacturer based out of Beijing, China, announced that its latest VR device, the Pico Neo 3 Link, will be available for consumer purchase in Europe in the near future. Similar to the Pico Neo 3, the Neo 3 Link is a standalone VR headset, meaning no PC is required in order to play.
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Remember caring for your “Nintendogs” on your Nintendo DS? Or maybe you used to bring your Tamogatchi to third grade to make sure you could flush its pixelated poop? Pokémon Go creator Niantic is bringing that same energy to its upcoming augmented reality mobile game Peridot.
Peridots (or Dots for short) are virtual, magical animals that kind of look like knock-off Pokémon (but like, in a good way?). The goal of the game is to care for your Peridot from childhood to adu

Pico Interactive primarily targets enterprise users outside of China, however now the company says it’s taking a step into European consumer markets soon. And surprisingly, its new Neo 3 variant is priced to be competitive with Meta Quest 2.Called Neo 3 Link, the headset is aiming to straddle the PC VR and standalone headset segments by offering built-in PC streaming over either Wi-Fi 6, or tethered DisplayPort connection. It’s ostensibly the same hardware as the Pico Neo 3 Pro,

AR & VR in Aviation Market Research Report: Size, Share, Opportunities, Challenges, Statistics, Restraints, Drivers with Key Player like Aero Glass, Atheer, Bohemia Interactive Simulations, Elbit Systems, Eon Reality, etc – Political Beef  Political Beef

Augmented Reality Remote Assistance Software Market Expected to Reach Highest CAGR 2028: The major players covered in Augmented Reality Remote Assistance Software are:, Atheer, RE'FLEKT, VSight, Microsoft Dynamics 365 – Political Beef  Political Beef

Fracked (2021), the action adventure game from veteran VR studio nDreams, is set to leave PSVR exclusivity in May, as it’s landing on PC VR headsets via Steam and Viveport.The run-and-gun VR shooter is slated to release on PC VR headsets (including Quest via Link) on May 5th. It will also be available on the Meta PC Store at a later date, nDreams says.
In Fracked, you step into the ski boots of an action hero stuck deep in a remote mountain facility. It’s you against a legi