June 17, 2016
Nintendo talks mobile gaming, VR and its future at E3
Nintendo has never been afraid to go against the grain of prevailing industry trends. In fact, the refusal to follow the pack has become a defining aspect of…
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June 16, 2016
Zeiss made a really premium Google Cardboard headset
Google Cardboard’s biggest appeal has always been its accessibility. Heck, they send the headsets out with the newspaper. Zeiss is taking things in a different direction with the…
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Alienware is also working on one of those VR backpacks
It’ll probably come as no surprise to anyone who’s been following gaming of late, but Alienware’s looking to join the likes of HP and MSI with the release…
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Razer’s VR headset is designed for developers
The OSVR HDK2 was arguably Razer’s biggest E3 unveiling this year – but it was also kind of besides the point. Like Google’s Daydream announcement a few weeks back,…
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Good VR is great — and bad VR is abysmal
I don’t want VR to be boring. It’s strange to think that something so futuristic and promising, something we’ve looked forward to for decades, could be boring, but…
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HTC’s Mixed Reality demo shows onlookers what it’s like to experience VR
In these earliest days of commercial viability, virtual reality is running up against the same wall as so many technologies before it: how does a company translate it…
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Oculus VR shuffles the deck, promotes Jason Rubin to Head of Content
Facebook’s Oculus VR today announced the promotion of Jason Rubin to Head of Content, and Steve Arnold to Head of Oculus Studios. Prior to joining the company in…
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PlayStation VR is arriving October 13th, priced at $399
I mean, I’m as excited about The Last Guardian as the next unwashed blogger, but you didn’t really think we were going to get out of tonight’s pre-E3…
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TechCrunch is at E3! But why?
These are strange days for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. The (ostensibly) trade-only event draws immense attention, but it has long been fraying at the edges. Yet we’re here…
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Facebook unlocks tilt-viewing of your panoramas with “360 Photos”
No more frustrating zoom-in/zoom-out. Facebook finally made a modern way to view panoramas and VR photos with your phone. Its new feature “360 Photos” rolls out tomorrow on…
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