‘Blacktop Hoops’ Studio Announces $5.1M Funding Round, Open Beta Now Live

Vinci Games, the studio behind popular VR basketball game Blacktop Hoops, has raised $5.1 million in a seed funding round. The round was led by Makers Fund, with participation from Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Pioneer Fund, Anorak Ventures, BonAngels, and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. Vinci Games was previously supported by Y Combinator, and also successfully […]

Valve Interview Confirms Its VR Ambitions Are Alive and Kicking

If you’ve been plugged into the Valve leak-o-verse, you’ve probably come across the name ‘Deckard’, the supposed code name of a standalone headset allegedly under development by the one and only. While Valve isn’t confirming anything about the storied standalone, the company went on record late last year to say they are still have faith […]

Cosmonauts Rest Before Spacewalk, Astronauts Work Eye-Brain Study

The Expedition 69 cosmonauts are sleeping in today resting up for a logistics spacewalk set to begin tonight. Meanwhile, the rest of the International Space Station crew continued cleaning biology research hardware, conducted an eye and brain study, and serviced a pair of spacesuits. Commander Sergey Prokopyev and Flight Engineer Dmitri Petelin have completed their …

Elon Musk Says U.S. Govt ‘Had Full Access’ To Private Twitter DMs

This photo illustrates Elon Musk’s Twitter page. (Photo illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto … [+]Getty Images NurPhoto via Getty Images According to a new explosive teaser video shared by Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk who bought Twitter…read more

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Artist Projects A Virtual Uterus Over The Supreme Court

The creator of the 4th Wall AR app uses immersive technology to deliver a powerful statement. Nancy Baker Cahill, a new media artist and the developer of 4th Wall, a popular augmented reality (AR) smartphone app, recently shared a video featuring her latest thought-provoking installation: a virtual uterus projected over the United States Supreme Court […]

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‘Another Fisherman’s Tale’ Releases May 11 on Meta Quest 2 + Pro

Today, InnerspaceVR and Vertigo Games revealed that Another Fisherman’s Tale will release on Meta Quest 2 + Pro on May 11. Don’t lose your head—or…

Microsoft Ports Windows 11 to HoloLens 2 MR Headsets

Microsoft announced last week it plans to update its HoloLens 2 devices to Windows 11 to level its performance and standards. According to the Redmond, Washington-based firm, it would test the update with Windows Insiders to release the optional feature at a later date. The release will upgrade the HoloLens 2 to the operating system’s […]

Da Vinci Eye on Apple, iOS Immersive Application Development

Da Vinci Eye is an AR smartphone application for artists, amateurs, and professionals that leverages immersive visualisations to project guides onto real-world surfaces allowing users to trace or copy images.  The firm designed its application for artists at all levels. Although, the service is also getting usage by enterprise market end-users, including catering/bakers, leather workers, […]

Why Will Apple Reveal its Reality Pro Headset at the WWDC?

Apple is set to reveal its long-awaited Reality Pro mixed reality (MR) headset at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on 5 June, news reports revealed on Sunday. In his newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the WWDC would unveil the new immersive device. The company aims to move to a new era of advanced solutions […]

Immersive Learning and the Attention Economy

While intrinsically linked to hand and eye-tracking, attention tracking allows headset solution developers to create ‘heatmaps’ of human behaviour. These psychological blueprints create quantitative and qualitative analyses of human-computer interactions, leading to a greater awareness of measurable behavioural responses to stimuli.  According to sources, such technologies create the Internet of Behaviour (IoB). This concept is […]