VR

Anduril takes control of Microsoft’s $22B VR military headset program

The Army has granted upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, founder Palmer Luckey announced in a blog post Tuesday. IVAS was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop augmented reality headsets for soldiers based on a ruggedized version of Hololens. […]

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Resolution Games announces Battlemarked, an upcoming VR Dungeons & Dragons game

Last year, Wizards of the Coast and Resolution Games announced an exciting development: Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), the popular tabletop role-playing game (RPG), is being adapted for virtual reality.  Until now, specific details about the new game have been kept closely under wraps. However, on Wednesday, the companies finally unveiled the official title and more

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Realize Music’s ‘Sing’ wants you to sing out loud by yourself in VR because it just feels good

People don’t sing as much as they used to, and Mike Wilson wants to change that. The former Devolver exec has of late been exploring how games can help with wellness, and his latest attempt is a VR app that you can, no joke, sing out loud with when you’re home alone. It’s not quite

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Ten years later, Facebook’s Oculus acquisition hasn’t changed the world as expected

Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if you average one a year. Oculus’ Rift prototype

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