While you were perhaps working from home or on vacation this week, Price Shaw was saving Seattle from a robot invasion. Price, a 7-year-old Seattle boy, was the recipient of… Read More
Virtual and augmented reality have yet to catch on with mainstream consumers, but investors are still betting on the immersive technology. Seattle startup Polyarc raised a $9 million Series B… Read More
Boeing isn’t due to start flying NASA crews to the International Space Station until next year, but in the meantime, astronauts can steer a computer-generated Starliner space taxi with the… Read More
Lies Beneath feels like a throwback to the early 2000s, and I absolutely mean that as a compliment. It’s a lot like the slightly janky horror games of that period,… Read More
Half-Life: Alyx, Valve Software’s flagship virtual reality game and a long-awaited return to the Half-Life universe, was released recently to near-universal acclaim (you can read our review here) and high… Read More
If you own a virtual reality headset, you’re going to want to play Half-Life: Alyx at some point. It’s aiming to be as foundational for VR as the original Half-Life… Read More
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
What were the top tech stories of the past decade? I’ve been discussing this topic with others recently on LinkedIn, and as I was editing GeekWire contributing writer Christopher Budd’s… Read More
Artists and organizations using immersive storytelling to create real-world change will gather in Seattle next month for the first-ever Impact Reality Summit, hosted by the late Paul Allen’s Vulcan Productions… Read More
HaptX announced a $12 million fundraising round Thursday, allowing the Seattle startup to develop its next generation of virtual reality gloves and robotics. HaptX is partnering with the Idaho-based manufacturer,… Read More
It’s doubtful anyone alive today will get to ride through the ice volcanoes of Saturn’s largest moon — but you can do the next best thing at Seattle’s Pacific Science… Read More
It looks like virtual reality capabilities won’t be coming to Xbox any time soon. VR doesn’t fit with Xbox’s perspective of gaming as a communal experience, Microsoft’s Executive Vice President… Read More
Valve Software’s Half-Life: Alyx was officially unveiled Thursday morning. It’s the first Half-Life game since 2007 (not counting fan-made drama bombs like Hunt Down the Freeman), and is a prequel… Read More
The quality of local startups in a region can often indicate the future of a tech ecosystem. To find out what the future may have in store for the Pacific… Read More
Companies looking for ways to educate their employees and keep them safe during an active shooter scenario have a new option: virtual reality. Seattle-based VR solutions provider Pixvana, which specializes… Read More
Jamie Fleming launched studio216 in 2005 and helped build the digital content agency for more than a decade. But after the recent acquisition of a Seattle mixed reality startup called… Read More
Yolanda Barton loves Seattle’s music history — the history that starts decades before Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Soundgarden came screaming onto the scene and Macklemore took fans thrift store shopping.… Read More
The Index, Valve Software’s new expensive entry into the virtual reality hardware market, has officially been released. At $999 for the whole package, the Valve Index is easily the highest-priced… Read More
What is it like to be homeless? How do you navigate around a crowded room in a wheelchair? Is teaching math in three dimensions a more effective learning tool? University… Read More
Judy Lee Baldwin-Mohn hasn’t played soccer since high school. But now at age 68, the U.S. Air Force veteran is getting on the field — virtually — as part of… Read More
Cyan Worlds, the Spokane, Wash.-based studio that produced the best-selling Myst franchise, today debuted the first game out of its new Cyan Ventures division. Last year, as its prolific PC… Read More
— It’s hard to find a new car these days that doesn’t have some type of technology inside, and those technologies are becoming more and more sophisticated. It’s no longer… Read More
Washington’s Grand Coulee Dam is one of the most impressive man-made structures in the country, but it can be difficult to fully see and understand all that goes into the… Read More
Valve Software unveiled a new virtual headset a month ago, and now it has a price. Pre-orders begin tomorrow for the Valve Index, and it will cost $999 for a… Read More
A big story in the virtual reality market is the upcoming Oculus Quest, an all-in-one portable headset that lets users enjoy VR games without requiring a wired connection to another… Read More
As a neonatologist at Seattle Children’s, Dr. Rachel Umoren knows that every second counts when a baby is born and doesn’t breathe or cry. If a caregiver doesn’t act fast,… Read More
For the last few years, Camouflaj, maker of the 2013 episodic adventure game Republique, has been quietly working on a top secret project in its Bellevue, Wash. studio. Last week, it… Read More
As VR and AR companies wait for the technology to catch on with mainstream consumers, companies aren’t waiting to put it to use in the workplace. Pixvana, the Seattle-based virtual… Read More
Cyan, the Spokane, Wash-based studio behind the Myst franchise and its spiritual successor, Obduction, began a new crowdfunding campaign today for their next game, Firmament. “Kickstarter is a way for… Read More