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Oculus VR Founder Laments Failure to Communicate on Pricing

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey on Wednesday said the company did a poor job of communicating the price of the consumer version of the Oculus Rift headset. However, similarly priced products, such as TVs and smartphones, cost less to manufacture than the Rift VR headset, he said in a Reddit Ask Me Anything, or AMA,…

Unity and SteamVR Unite for Native Vive Support

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Unity Technologies last week announced that the Unity Platform has been retooled to offer native support for SteamVR, the software foundation for Rift rival HTC Vive. The move will save effort and resources, whether developers build made-for-VR titles or merely build virtual reality support into traditional games. In addition, Valve, the company behind Steam and…

Google’s Virtual Reality Tinkering May Get More Real

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Google is developing a standalone virtual reality headset that will be several steps removed from Google’s Cardboard VR, The Wall Street Journal reported last week. Instead of relying on a user’s smartphone and a lens-fitted cardboard headset, it will have all the necessary components built in. It also won’t have to rely on a PC…

Samsung Raises Curtain on Galaxy S7 Models

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Samsung on Sunday introduced two new models of its flagship Galaxy smartphone line at the annual gala for the mobile world, the Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. Both phones have similar features, but one, the Galaxy S7 Edge, has a 5.5-inch display, the same size as the iPhone 6s Plus. The units have curved…

USA Today to Experiment With Virtual Reality News Show

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The USA Today Network last week announced VRtually There, a virtual reality news program that will evolve alongside the nascent VR sector. Set to launch this spring, VRtually There will take a network approach and will air an assortment of regularly scheduled programming, according to theGannett-owned company. It will lean on the network’s newsrooms, dotted…

Oculus Rift Offers the Best VR Experience Yet, Reviewers Say

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The first reviews of theOculus Rift surfaced Monday, and reviewers praised the potential of the virtual reality system while pointing out some obvious concerns. The headset display is well-crafted and durable, but drawbacks include the cost — US$600 — and the fact that it requires a powerful gaming system to run it, according to some…

The Hololens Academy: How I Became a Novice Wizard

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At last week’s Microsoft Build conference, I attended the Hololens Academy — a whirlwind effort to turn me into a master programmer able to create things out of thin air. It failed. Apparently it takes longer than an hour to teach someone who hasn’t coded in decades to be a master programmer — go figure.…

Oculus’ Controversial ToS a Stark Reminder of Its Facebook Parentage

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Oculus last week updated its terms of service to accompany the release of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, raising privacy and content ownership concerns. Software will be installed to monitor how the device is used, and the usage data will be sent back to Oculus and its parent company, Facebook, according to the terms…

Learning to Love Virtual Reality

Eylül 8, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At Nvidia’s GTC, GPU Technology Conference last week, I saw a variety of new technologies showcased. From deep learning systems — computers that arguably are smarter than we are — to self-driving cars that can drive better than we can, the technological advances on display made me feel just a tad inadequate. One way to…

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