Virtual reality? Augmented reality? Mixed reality? Today at a Seattle symposium, experts settled on extended reality, or XR, as the catch-all term for devices that put computer-generated visuals in front… Read More
While the long road to mass consumer adoption of virtual reality technology is still being built, HTC remains hard at work on the vehicles that will take users on the… Read More
Samsung’s Gear VR will join some of its virtual reality contemporaries with the announcement that it will soon get a controller to go along with the Oculus-powered headset. Announced at… Read More
Virtual reality aficionados everywhere are bound to be happy this holiday season as Facebook-owned Oculus just released its long-awaited Touch controls to go with the Rift headset. Oculus announced the… Read More
“Take your stinking tech off me, you damned dirty human!” There, I just wrote some dialogue for the next installment in the “Planet of the Apes” franchise. The one where the chimpanzees react… Read More
Seattle-based Taqtile has developed a new interactive and collaborative 3D maps app for Microsoft’s HoloLens and other virtual and mixed reality headsets — blending the physical and digital worlds for a variety of… Read More
A pair of virtual reality/gaming companies are biting off huge chunks of industrial real estate east of Seattle, in an area that is rapidly becoming a hotbed of VR activity.… Read More
NullSpace VR wants to add a little more reality to the virtual reality experience. The company, founded by Morgan Sinko, Jordan Brooks and Lucian Copeland when they were students at… Read More
HTC Friday morning announced the global launch of Viveport, a virtual reality app store for the HTC Vive, after months of beta testing. The VR store first opened in China in April, and… Read More
Over the past four days, I transformed from Bruce Wayne into Batman, used clairvoyance to see through another person’s eyes, played high-tech racquetball in a 360-degree court, sliced fruit coming at me from… Read More
— Urban Airship CFO Mike Temple has stepped down from the Portland-based mobile marketing platform, according to a story on OregonLive. The well-known startup, which helps companies such as ESPN, Groupon, Waze… Read More
HTC is making it easier for customers to purchase its Vive virtual reality headset. The tech giant announced today that customers who buy the Vive online will receive their orders within 2-to-3… Read More
The cost of experiencing virtual reality is going to be high, not just because VR headsets cost upwards of $600, but also because the computers needed to power those headsets are monster… Read More
The HTC Vive is coming to consumers soon, but some members of the media got to try out a handful of games being built for the virtual reality headset at… Read More
Virtual reality is coming in hot, but getting into VR isn’t just about the new headsets hitting the market. You’ll need a pretty powerful computer to get into truly immersive virtual… Read More
A group of virtual reality heavy-hitters have quietly formed a new startup in Seattle — raising money, landing customers and launching what it hopes will one day be a leader in… Read More
It was only 15 minutes, but my time playing with Oculus’ latest virtual reality technology on Friday at the PAX Prime game convention in Seattle was the most exciting “video game”… Read More
HTC and Valve may have announced today the new Vive virtual reality headset won’t hit shelves until 2016, but Seattleites don’t have to wait that long to experience what many are… Read More
Those attending next month’s U.S. Open in New York will have a chance to play tennis with Maria Sharapova … kind of. American Express, which is sponsoring professional tennis’ fourth… Read More
Some people aren’t yet convinced that virtual reality is the next big thing. Others say it’s going to be a revolution. Three Oregon-based entrepreneurs speaking on Thursday certainly fall into… Read More
Developers who want to get early access to Valve’s virtual reality headset can now apply for a free development kit that should help jump-start their development for the company’s platform.… Read More
Valve will be giving away virtual reality headsets to developers to give them a head start on creating experiences for its hardware, which is slated for release by the end… Read More