Oculus says it’ll preview the next five years of Virtual Reality at Oculus Connect 5, on Sept. 26-27 in San Jose, California. The Facebook-owned brand hosts its Oculus Connect conference every year, where it shows off its new developments in the world of VR. Curious what Facebook has in mind for the next stage of …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Now playing: Watch this: Apple shows new Measure AR app 1:22 Augmented reality was one of the first topics Apple tackled at its yearly WWDC keynote on Monday, with new ARKit2 features in iOS 12 designed to help people put the technology to …
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The latest version of Lenovo’s Explorer Windows Mixed Reality headset system has been toddling along at $400 until today, when it was spotted in the Microsoft Store for half off at $200. Now playing: Watch this: Microsoft reveals mixed reality tech for the workplace 3:13 Mixed Reality headsets aren’t exactly flying off the shelves, and prices dropped significantly in January …
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Each year in June, just about every head in the tech world starts dutifully craning toward California to see what genius Apple will come up with next at WWDC. But this June, there’s a whole other world of tech happening outside the US. Forget WWDC, forget E3, forget Silicon Valley — if you want to see how the rest of …
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It’s pretty clear what Facebook wants with Oculus: for you to use VR to socialize with your network when you’re not physically with your network. Sound creepy? I hopped around a virtual arena and sat with other avatars during a VR broadcast of a basketball game last week for an hour, and I didn’t hate it. Oculus Venues is the …
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The next generation of VR headsets will most likely all have eye tracking built in. And in the meantime, eye-tracking technology company Tobii is developing ways to analyze where our eyes go in VR, and learn from it. I tried Tobii’s eye-tracking tech in an HTC Vive VR headset a few months ago, and it was astonishingly good. But what’s …
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I remember using a selfie stick to try out Google’s educational vision of AR, and it was impressive. My son tried it in his school one day, and felt the same way. Google’s AR Expeditions initiatives were originally designed to be used in classrooms, and still are, but before now schools had to be part of a pilot program to try …
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I’m in a plane 10,000 feet above Hawaii when a skydiver gives me the signal to jump. My heart skips a beat as I fall out of the plane and suddenly, with the wind rushing around me, I’m hurtling toward Earth. Now playing: Watch this: Skydiving in VR is ridiculous and fun 3:23 Being too scared to actually throw myself …
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HTC’s newest phone, the HTC U12 Plus, was just revealed. And its newest mobile standalone VR headset, the Vive Focus, hasn’t come to the US yet. But these two gadgets now intertwine just a bit thanks to HTC’s newest software updates to Vive Focus. The news was announced Thursday at a Vive Ecosystem Conference in Shenzhen, China. Vive Focus is …
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Hasbro’s first VR game just arrived in Oculus Rooms, the shared social space on the Samsung Gear VR and Oculus Go platforms. Boggle is now something you can play with your VR friends, if you have VR friends (I find it hard to make any). Facebook announced that Hasbro games were coming to Oculus at the F8 conference a few weeks ago, …
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