Hands-on with HTC Vive headset and SteamVR demo at CES 2016
Vive Pre developer unit impresses, but controllers may need some work
Perhaps one of the most anticipated and talked-about technology showcases at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas were the variety of virtual reality headsets offered from HTC, Oculus, Jaunt, Creative Labs, Leap Motion and others.
CES 2016 themes to include VR, more wearables and 4K drones
VR-equipped drones also likely
According to the newest report, the major technological trends to anticipate at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will include virtual reality (VR) headsets, a bigger lineup of wearable computing devices, and a new generation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) also known to the general public as drones.
HTC Vive VR now slated for April 2016
Delays, delays
HTC has been working with Valve in order to get its VR glasses to market for a while now, and it looks like the new launch date has been delayed until April 2016.
Reality will be the next big thing
Augmented and virtual everything by 2020
New research suggests that the next big thing in technology will be augmented (AR) and virtual reality (VR).
Microsoft finally delivers X-Ray specs
Project XRAY is comic-book genius
For decades comics used to promise that for a tiny amount of cash you could amaze your family and friends with x-ray specs. Now it seems that Microsoft is finally delivering.
Nvidia VR multi rendering saves 20 percent performance
Renders 25 to 50 percent less without visual degradation
Nvidia has being a busy bee when it comes to virtual reality. There is no doubt that this is the next performance battleground between AMD and Nvidia.
Mozilla plans VR in the browser
It is doing something interesting after all
Big Cheeses at the Mozzarella Foundation have finally come up with an idea that could make Firefox relevant again.
Oculus has Rift event on June 11th
5 days ahead of E3
Oculus has already showed rendered pictures of the next Rift and the company even talked about a possible launch date in early 2016.
VR units like Oculus, Re Vive to cost close to $1,000
Expensive technology
Now there is another player in the Virtual Reality arena and it goes under the name FOVE.
Windows becomes Oculus Rift compatible
Working in virtual reality
Finally Windows can runs in an Oculus Rift style virtual reality which is called Virtual Desktop.