Mixed Reality

TubeCast VR brings immersive 3D YouTube to Windows Mixed Reality

21 hours

Veteran Microsoft Store Webrox has brought their popular video player to the Windows Mixed Reality. Mainly focussed on 360° content on YouTube, TubeCast VR lets you view 360° videos by moving your head, and browse the interfa...

Microsoft is promoting the HoloLens at the Hannover Messe trade show this week

by Surur

1 day

Microsoft is promoting the Microsoft HoloLens Mixed Reality headset at the Hannover Messe show in Germany this week. Billed as the world’s leading trade show for industrial technology, Microsoft is putting the headset forward ...

Intel shutters Augmented Reality division after failed spin-off, dooming Superlight glasses

by Surur

5 days

We reported close to 3 months ago on a rumour, via Bloomberg, that Intel was set to spin out a new smart glasses company with plans to bring its Superlight laser-projection-based headset wearable to the market. Intel was said to ...

Shocking! German HoloLens researchers use electrodes to simulate force feedback

by Surur

6 days

If someone said being hacked in virtual reality can kill you I would have laughed, but that was before a group of mixed reality researchers in Germany suggested we make our virtual experiences more realistic by covering our body w...

HoloLens used for midwives training in Australia

by Surur

2 weeks

The University of Newcastle in Australia has developed a midwife training program based on virtual and augmented reality that offers nurse trainees visual insight into the internal stages of childbearing and its effect on the hum...

Plex brings their VR app to Oculus Rift

by Surur

3 weeks

Plex has brought their media streaming app to Oculus Rift and Samsung’s Gear VR. The app has previously been available only on Google DayDream headsets. The app lets you watch media from your media server library in a vi...

Misguided developer imagines Augmented Reality-based grocery shopping

by Surur

3 weeks

Retail has always been the holy grail of Augmented Reality, helping shoppers navigate confusing store layouts, offering additional information on store items and offering stores further opportunities to engage with their customers...

Hololens 2.0 may ditch Intel for ARM processor

by Surur

3 weeks

Competition for the Microsoft Hololens is finally close to reaching the market, with the Magic Leap’s headset expected to reach virtual shelves later this year. This seems to have prompted the company to finally get around t...

Windows Mixed Reality start losing market share as Facebook’s Oculus Rift takes the majority of the VR m...

by Surur

3 weeks

Steam’s Hardware Survey numbers are out for March 2018, and while they remain useless for PCs, they do give us a look into the market share of the various VR headsets, due to Steam’s cross-platform support and attracti...

HoloLens app brings the Stranger Things monsters to your own living room

by Surur

4 weeks

A German developer has created an app which brings the monsters from the Stranger Things series to your own home. Powered by the Microsoft HoloLens, the app scans your room, adds the iconic structures and flying particles, and occ...

Microsoft releases Windows 10 RS4 Preview update for HoloLens with several new features

by Pradeep

4 weeks

After a long gap, Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 build for HoloLens devices. This new HoloLens RS4 Preview (Windows Holographic 10.0.17123.1003) update comes with several new features for consumers and developers. If yo...

Microsoft announces CAD support for Simplygon to bring more 3D content into mixed reality

by Pradeep

4 weeks

Microsoft today announced that Simplygon has added compatibility for popular CAD file formats, JT and STEP. Simplygon is a premier developer of automatic 3D data-optimization solutions which Microsoft acquired last year. Simplygon...