The Lego Creative Play Lab is launching a new – and free – augmented reality (AR) app, entitled Lego AR-Studio. The app allows users to explore and control virtually enhanced animated versions of Lego models in real-world environments, making and playing out their own unique stories and adventures. The app also allows users to record the […]
The BBC and VR production studio Rewind have launched A VR Spacewalk – an interactive VR experience – available for free on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift via the Steam Store and the Oculus Store. Inspired by the NASA training programmes used by British astronaut Tim Peake A VR Spacewalk enables users astronauts […]
Startup leaders across the 27 AR/VR sectors in Digi-Capital’s Augmented/Virtual Reality Report and Deals Database raised $1 billion (€0.84bn) in the fourth quarter before the end of November. This is only the second time the billion dollar figure has been reached in a single quarter. Three quarters of a billion dollars went into big deals […]
IMAX has opened its first virtual reality experience centre in the UK, at the Trafford Centre in Manchester, where it hopes to draw younger audiences to the cinema in greater numbers. The experience will allow visitors to enter the space and play multiplayer VR games or experience entertainment content that ties in with movies currently. […]
New-York based startup We Are TV, an IOS and Android AR app that launched in October, has reported 100,000 users. Available in both France and the US, We are TV allows viewers to interact with live, replay or VoD programming and enhance their experience by playing games or by posting and reading comments. “This number […]
b<>com, an Institute of Research and Technology, has developed what it claims is a “sickness free” Virtual Reality Platform. In July of this year, the marine theme park Océanopolis in Brest and b<>com tested a new VR dive into the Arctic Ocean, entitled the Virtual Arctic Expedition. Five key takeaways and developments from the project […]
The European Tour golf tournament has partnered with Tata Communications to build a best-in-class global technology platform that aims to underpin the digital transformation of the sport and attract new, younger fans to the sport. As the Official Global Connectivity Supplier of the European Tour, Tata Communications will distribute the video feeds from 47 European […]
HTC has unveiled a standalone virtual reality headset branded the Vive Focus. The all-in-one VR device does not need to be connected to a computer or use a smartphone’s screen to show images. The device has an AMOLED screen and uses internal sensors to work out where the user is looking, giving a greater ability […]
The makers of Pokémon Go have revealed it is working on a Harry Potter-themed follow-up that will also include AR features. Niantic said players would find and fight fantasy beasts in real-world neighbourhoods in the smartphone game, which has yet to get a release date. Pokémon Go reportedly had about 45 million daily players at […]
ETSI has announced that the Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Association (VRARA) has signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on interactive VR and AR technologies delivered over emerging 5G networks and hosted on Multi-Access Edge Computing sites. VRARA will be primarily involved with ETSI’s Multi-Access Edge Computing group. “Virtual and Augmented Reality technology holds the promise […]