Rich RobinsonWalmart may soon let you shop in VRverified_publisherEngadget - Mallory LocklearTwo patents describe a virtual reality showroom. Walmart has been getting serious about VR and its next project could be a virtual shopping experience. The company has applied for two patents that describe a virtual reality showroom customers could visit and shop from through VR headsets, Bloomberg …
Rich RobinsonGoogle snags Sony’s ‘Magic Lab’ VR guruverified_publisherTechCrunch - Lucas MatneyGoogle has hired Richard Marks, Sony’s Magic Lab head who was behind much of the company’s VR efforts, to a position in its Advanced Technology and Projects group, VentureBeat reports. Google confirmed the hire to TechCrunch, sending along a statement from ATAP head Dan Kaufman. “ATAP is at the …
Rich RobinsonThe next generation of VR headsets will connect over a single USB-C cableverified_publisherThe Verge - Shoshana WodinskyVirtualLink has announced a new standard, shrinking tangles of VR cables to one USB-C VirtualLink, a consortium of companies including AMD, NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, and Microsoft, has just announced that the oodles of cables needed to connect VR headsets to PCs will soon be whittled down to a single …
Rich RobinsonMagic Leap One will ship this summer with Nvidia Tegra X2 processorverified_publisherVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzFollowing four years of development, Magic Leap announced today that it will begin shipping the Magic Leap One Creator Edition to developers this summer — a window that began on June 21, 2018 and will end on September 22, 2018. The company also confirmed that it is using an Nvidia Tegra X2 …
Rich RobinsonLocation-based virtual reality is increasing its footprint in the U.S.verified_publisherTechCrunch - Jonathan ShieberEarlier this year, in a small, grey-walled storefront inside a very large mall in Torrance, Calif. (just past the AMC Center) , the virtual reality game-maker Survios planted its first flag in the market for location-based gaming. It’s one of several companies (many based in Los Angeles) that are …
Rich RobinsonDoes Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?verified_publisherTechCrunch - Maggie LaneIt was barely minutes after the Ready Player One premiere, and texts from my friends and colleagues in the VR community began pouring in… “How was it?” Those of us in the mixed reality industries have been waiting for this film like the VR messiah that will deliver us to public mass adoption. And the …