Virtual Reality

Audi spin-out Holoride is launching to the general public for the first time, though a collaboration with Ford and Universal Pictures . The young company is focused on a unique twist on virtual reality: In-car VR, to be experienced by a passenger while a vehi…

Our hands are rich forms of gestural expression, but capturing these expressions without hindering the hand itself is no easy task–even in today’s world of virtual reality hardware. Fret not, though, as researchers at the Interactive Geometry Lab have recentl…

Microsoft might be working on a virtual reality mat to, at least in part, keep you from getting clotheslined by your coffee table yet again while ostensibly blinded by a VR headset. The company calls it a virtual reality floor mat activity region in the paten…

Several months back, we invited HTC cofounder and CEO Cher Wang to appear on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Sometimes, however, life happens. Two weeks ago, the company announced that Wang would be stepping down from the role, which would immediately be filled …

Forward-thinking businesses have been looking for ways to leverage augmented reality and virtual reality for some time now. The Pokemon Go craze predicted a new way of thinking. Gone are the days when these technologies were regarded as the work of an overact…

Late last year, John Root of Virtual Reality Los Angeles approached me with a crazy idea: what if we built a giant fake forest, placed it in the middle of the Los Angeles Convention Center, and used HoloLens to allow people to hunt for virtual Easter eggs ins…

"In some examples, computing device may take the form of a gaming console, and and peripheral control devices may be peripheral to the gaming console," it wrote in the filing, while the illustrations depict an Xbox as we…

Apple has reportedly acquired UK special effects studio IKinema, a startup that may be useful in Apple’s quest to bolster its mobile devices with AR special effects and in its more far-flung attempts to enter the AR/VR headset market. The company issued its …

A couple of new Microsoft patents were revealed recently.They focus on what appears to be an upcoming gaming console. A virtual reality boundary mat, motion controller, and stylus were part of the leak. Microsoft's next-g…

Apple has quietly acquired iKinema, a British company that develops motion capture technology for use in a variety contexts, including virtual reality and web animations. At the time of writing, the tech giant has not publicly announced the acquisition, but …