Kevin Carbotte
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Kevin Carbotte has written 381 pieces of content
- December 2020
- Tundra Labs will launch a Vive Tracker alternative on Kickstarter
- Lynx R1 production delayed for better hand tracking cameras
- Flight Simulator VR may be out, but that doesn't mean you can play it
- Oculus is investigating reports of skin irritation and taking action
- Noctua's passive cooler reportedly nearing production, pictured here
- HTC's next headset said to take VR industry 'to another level'
- One of the founders of Magic Leap left the company this month
- VR Cover now sells controller grips for Quest 2 Touch controllers
- Anker just released a magnetic charge dock for Oculus Quest 2
- Flight Simulator VR is out but your computer might not be ready for it
- Xbox is giving away this sweet pair of Mandalorian-themed controllers
- One of the last new apps for Oculus Go is called Poo With a View
- Patriot's Viper Steel RGB Memory has five addressable lighting zones
- Virtual Battlegrounds Season 2 gets dynamic weather, improved graphics
- Phanteks joins the AIO party with its Glacier One liquid cooler lineup
- MegaDodo is sending 300 'blogger edition' DecaMove units to YouTubers
- Jurassic World Aftermath lands on Oculus Quest December 17
- Bitcoin blew past $20,000 peaking at $22,900 for new all-time-high
- The Quake, Wolfenstein, and Half-Life VR ports now run at 90Hz
- The Wizards: Dark Times is coming to Oculus Quest next year
- The first patch for Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is already out
- Doctors in Zurich are using HoloLens 2 to help with spinal surgery
- Facebook simultaneously under fire from US and German authorities
- Oculus quietly dropped the price for Rift S, now $299
- Hyundai dropped almost $900 million to take control of Boston Dynamics
- VRCover for Quest 2 sold out almost immediately
- GIGABYTE's x470 and B450 motherboards now support Ryzen 5000 CPUs
- Japan's largest contact lens maker signed a deal to build AR contacts
- Cyan's Myst is now available on Oculus Quest
- The lenses in the Lynx-R1 headset are like none we've ever seen before
- Oculus brings Phase Sync frame timing technology to Quest SDK
- Medal of Honor VR's recommended specs are a little bit crazy
- XPG expands its chassis portfolio with the XPG Defender Pro E-ATX Case
- In Death: Unchained gets free Siege of Heaven DLC and it's out today
- HP mistakenly replaced a few Reverb G2 headsets with the old model
- China's new Quantum tech is 100 trillion times faster than Google's
- Magic Leap is 'focusing 100%' on enterprise for next 3 to 4 years
- Oculus now has over 50% of the SteamVR market share
- If you have an NZXT H1 you should stop using it and call support now
- Google killed another project: Google Poly shutting down in June
- Vodafone will distribute Nreal Light smartglasses in Europe
- Medal of Honor VR has five multiplayer modes, available Dec 11
- Pimax is testing an experimental virtual desktop mode
- Wacom is betting on the immersive future with a VR Pen for 3D artists
- Oculus is pulling the plug on MARVEL Powers United VR
- Varjo's new VR-3 & XR-3 professional headsets have extreme resolution November 2020
- Forget monoblocks, EK just launched its first multiblock!
- This AR headset can read your brain and speak for you
- One of the scariest games in VR just got creepier with a prison level
- Universal Studios and Nintendo built an AR Mario Kart ride in Japan
- Pimax's new 5K headset doubles the refresh rate of most VR devices
- Future XR hardware will read your thoughts with OpenBCI's Galea
- SideQuest is now part of Khronos Group and helping shape OpenXR
- Microsoft Flight Sim getting full VR support in December update
- Star Wars: Squadrons 3.0 update brings new VR performance features
- Is SideQuest Facebook's next target for destruction?
- Pimax completely overhauled the Pimax VR Experience beta
- Vive headsets are on sale and include Hal-Life: Alyx in the UK
- VR Cover finally released its Quest 2 cushion replacement
- Covid killed Intel's mixed reality Hollywood studio dreams
- StarVR is calling on simulation racers to try its ultrawide VR headset
- Sony's PS5 controller 'just works' on games using Steam input API
- Lian Li's PC-011D Mini is like a Tardis: It's bigger on the inside
- Oculus extended the Asgard's Wrath promotion to all Quest 2 owners
- Asgard's Wrath is free if you buy a Quest 2 and use Oculus Link
- Kat VR is about to release a new version of its VR locomotion sensors
- HTC's Vive Focus Plus headset just got a big update
- JVC is building an ultra-high-resolution MR headset for enterprise
- Mad Catz developed new mechanical switch technology for its new mouse
- Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge available now on Quest
- Cybershoes for Quest is fully funded on Kickstarter
- The military is using Valve Index headset for helicopter training
- Myst, Warhammer, Pistol Whip update coming to Quest 2 next Month
- Oculus might be exploring a 120Hz mode for the Quest 2 headset
- HP Reverb G2 is now backordered into next year
- Google's Expeditions VR education platform shutting down next summer
- Bigscreen's new green screen room lets you put your avatar in anything
- You should play these 12 VR Game of the Year candidates
- Oculus Move fitness tracker coming to Quest and Quest 2 next week
- Oculus Link exits beta, Quest 2 gets 90Hz suppor
- The bounty for the Quest 2 jailbreak is still up for grabs
- Valve wants to tell you about making Half-Life: Alyx while you play
- People are already breaking this small part of their HP Reverb G2
- PTC's Vuforia AR Enterprise Suite coming to Magic Leap next year
- Microsoft improved Windows MR image quality for HP Reverb G2
- The Marvel's Iron Man PSVR bundles to include PS5 camera dongle
- Deca can actually make a profit on DecaGear 1, components cost $200
- EK really did build a TEC cooler, and it uses Intel Cryo Cooling Tech
- This virtual reality pirate game looks incredible!
- Seeya Technology now producing a 1-inch 2560x2560 OLED microdisplay
- The GodView Tech smart glasses are a wearable 5K big screen TV
- bHaptics TactSuit X haptic feedback vests for immersive VR gaming
- G.Skill revamped the Trident Z Neo series for Ryzen 5000
- HP Reverb G2 deliveries have begun, first customer review surfaces
- Protect your Quest 2 with this silicone cover from VRCover
- It looks like EK is making a thermoelectric CPU cooler
- Oculus halts Elite Strap shipments while it investigates failures
- EK's newest monoblock is perfect if you hate RGB
- HoloLens 2 Developer Edition now available, financing coming soon October 2020
- The DecaMove locomotion system works with any VR headset
- Five times as many people pre-ordered Quest 2 compared to Quest
- Is Sony letting the original PSVR die a slow death?
- The PlayStation 5 PSVR dongle is a USB adapter
- Microsoft shifting the Windows Mixed Reality platform to OpenXR
- Immersed adds virtual keyboard overlays to its VR workspace platform
- Tilt Five lands $7.5 million to fund its AR tabletop gaming platform
- HP Reverb G2 in full production, first units out to partners
- CML says its depth camera is better than Apple's LiDAR system
- Lenovo is now selling ThinkStation computers with Varjo XR headsets
- Huawei is building a 6-DoF VR headset that tethers to a phone
- No, Facebook won't ban you for having two Quests
- Infinadeck wants to put its Ready Player One tech in your home
- DecaGear 1 is a 4K VR headset with face and hip tracking for $449
- PNY joins the PCIe 4.0 craze with a line of 5,600MB/s SSDs
- There may be a problem with the Quest 2 Elite Strap design
- Population: One is out today with crossplay between all VR platforms
- Acer just announced a metal & carbon fiber laptop designed by Porsche
- Adobe's AR Together solves object persistence in multi-user AR
- Facebook researchers are working on keyboard-less typing for VR
- Quest 2 is selling even better than Facebook anticipated
- Quest 2 is very good for developers, sales through the roof
- It is now possible to do mixed reality with a Quest 2 and an iPad
- Pimax secured a $20 million investment to improve customer experience
- A $10,000 bounty for a Quest 2 jailbreak has already been claimed
- SideQuest is seeing rapid growth following Quest 2 release
- Facebook abandoned the whole Go platform; Quest 2 can't play Go games
- FitXR is adding dance workouts to its VR fitness repertoire
- 3dRudder is now shipping a wireless model for standalone headsets
- Cybershoes for Quest is in the works, Kickstarter campaign coming soon
- Google Meet for Glass offers hands-free collaboration for technicians
- Check out this teardown of a Quest 2 headset
- All of EK's water cooling starter kits are now copper-based
- Snap's Lens Studio 3.2 supports Apple's LiDAR camera for seamless AR
- iPhone 12 Pro could be the best phone ever for AR content
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners shuffles its way to Oculus Quest
- Beat Saber now has a multiplayer mode to battle your friends
- FOVE0 eye-tracking headset gets new features with software updates
- HTC now selling Vive Cosmos bundled with AORUS laptops
- Quest 2 requires Facebook even for existing Oculus accounts
- Western Digital expands WD_BLACK series with three NVME SSD options
- NZXT's new Z490 motherboard perfectly compliments its elegant cases
- Corsair's MP400 packs up to 8TB of PCIe storage
- HTC introduces Vive Pro Secure VR headset for classified environments
- ZapBox is a 6-DoF mixed reality headset that you can buy for $40
- Virtuix has a new Omni that includes a headset and fits in your home
- The creator of The Void is launching a VR wingsuit attraction in 2021
- Population: One VR battle royale hits Standalone and PCVR October 22
- These Five Quest games are getting updates for Quest 2
- NVIDIA's CloudXR brings photorealistic VR to mobile headsets
- Google killed Daydream a year ago but Android 11 wipes it away
- Foveated rendering gives Reverb Omnicept 39% performance uplift
- Microsoft is looking for beta testers for Flight Simulator VR
- Foxconn developing Micro-LED smart glasses for 2023
- Canon's new mixed reality device is smaller than a smartphone
- Forget haptic gloves, HaptX is making a full-body haptic suit September 2020
- These VR boxing gloves give you an authentic fighter feel
- Gravity Lab gets Quest 2 update ahead of headset launch
- HP Reverb G2 Omnicept Edition has a face camera, heart beat sensor
- Pimax VR Experience gives you control of your headset from inside VR
- HoloLens 2 gets automatic eye-calibration in latest Insider Preview
- Development of Pimax Sword motion controller nearly complete
- Sony working on inside out tracking and new controller for future PSVR
- Photon Lens is building the sleekest AR smart glasses we've ever seen
- HP preparing to ship Reverb G2 VR headsets in November
- Oculus founder backs SideQuest hobbyist Oculus Quest marketplace
- Is HP getting ready to reveal Reverb G2 Omnicept? Possibly!
- Azure Object Anchors let you attach 3D content to physical objects
- Quest 2 is in high demand, pre-orders backordered in several regions
- Facebook may have acquired Lemnis Technologies for its varifocal tech
- IDC says VR headsets sales set to climb rapidly next year
- Quest 2 Infinite Office is a science fiction productivity environment
- UltraLeap's advanced hand-tracking hardware now widely available
- VividQ, ARM bringing holographic display technology to mobile devices
- EKTO VR built a set of robotic shoes to solve VR locomotion
- Project ARIA takes Facebook's AR research to the next level
- Oculus Quest 2 doesn't support Ultraleap hand-tracking after all
- Oculus is selling a whole bunch of accessories for the Quest 2
- Rift S is the last PCVR headset from the Oculus brand
- All the leaks about Quest 2 were true; white, powered by XR2, $299
- Facebook Connect starts at 10 am PT, here's what to expect
- If you get banned from Facebook, you could get banned from Oculus too
- Oculus Quest 2 headset box images surface outing unannounced VR games
- Facebook dun goofed: Oculus Quest 2 announcement leaks ahead of time
- Tactical Haptics developing modular accessory for Touch controllers
- The SaberGrip VR controller use shear forces to simulate anything
- Viper Gaming's new memory kits come in 4133MHz, 4266MHz and 4400MHz
- You can build your own VR headset for $200 with this open-source guide
- A Geekbench score may have outed HTC's next VR headset
- Far Cry VR is coming to an arcade near you next year!
- Apple's next iPhone will produce better AR because of Lidar
- Another Reality's Gorn is coming to Oculus Quest... eventually
- The RealMax Qian is an AR and VR headset rolled into one package
- HoloLens 2 available at Microsoft Store for anyone who can afford it
- Mojang is bringing the full Minecraft experience to PSVR within days
- ASRock's BOX-4000 mini PCs can drive four 4K@60Hz displays at once
- It is getting very hard to buy an Oculus Quest - is it discontinued?
- GeForce RTX 30 doesn't include USB-C port because VirtualLink is dead
- Fanatec's CSL Elite WRC steering wheel is ready for next-gen consoles
- No germs: Acer's Spin 7 convertible laptop has antimicrobial coatings
- Vuzix expect to bring smart glasses to the masses in 2021
- NVIDIA's DLSS SDK 2.1 now supports VR gaming titles in Unreal Engine
- Alphacool's leak testing tool pressurizes your loop before you fill it
- Teamgroup's QX SSD packs an astounding 15.3TB in a 2.5' package
- Pimax is getting ready to finally ship stretch goal rewards
- Facebook temporarily halts Oculus VR headset sales in Germany
- RealMax is building an AR headset with a super wide field of view
- Infinite Production created a database to compare VR headset FOV
- Acer Predator Orion desktops now support GeForce RTX 30 series cards
- Vuzix demonstrates the benefits of augmented reality for race drivers
- Walmart may have leaked the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset - it's cheap!
- ASUS drops two new Zenbook laptop models just in time for school August 2020
- Face tracking might feature on HP's high-end Reverb G2 VR headset
- Pimax is taking on extra quality control for 8KX VR headset shipments
- Asetek is expanding its business into... sim racing?
- Tilt 5 making 'steady progress' on holographic table top game system
- D-Link's super fast EXO AX5400 Mesh Wi-Fi 6 router available now
- Facebook Horizon will have a closed beta and it's starting soon
- Corsair's Hydro hardline kits include everything, even a hacksaw!
- Thermaltake introduces 32GB & 64GB Toughram RGB memory kits
- Qualcomm's XR2 Reference Headset Includes Ultraleap Hand Tracking