VR

Investors put $686 million into virtual and augmented reality in 2015

Posted in Medicine on 20th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Most of that $686 million is for video services, with gaming and solutions/services (stuff with uses for science and industry) following.

Goldman Sachs says VR will be bigger than TV in 10 years

Posted in Software on 16th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

"We definitely aim long-term to get a billion people in VR, and deliver an incredibly comfortable VR experience in a set of sunglasses," -Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe

Google now has a boss for its virtual reality business to take on Oculus

Posted in Business on 13th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

One of the execs behind Google Cardboard, will head up the companys virtual reality team.

Vive pre-orders to start on February 29, HTC boss Cher Wang confirms

Posted in Hardware on 12th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

Vive will compete with Oculus Rift and Sony's PlayStation VR as the technology finally enters the mainstream. Its price remains unknown.

The Rift is expensive: Oculus founder: We are not making money on $599 Rift; it's obscenely cheap

Posted in Games on 6th Jan, 2016
by Alex Muller

$599 to get the top-tier VR equipment in addition to the cost of a PC, and that has a lot of consumers feeling priced out of the market.