Tag Archives: augmented reality

Publisher Big Immersive has announced it’s entering the virtual and augmented reality markets around the world. Headquarted in the UK and Dubai, Big Immersive already has numerous titles in development from its first party studio based in Lahore, Pakistan, and has three titles that are already available across multiple formats, …

Former Oculus co-founder and chief engineer at Guitar Hero producer RedOctane Jack McCauley has joined Lucid VR has chief engineer. In his new role, McCauley will head up the worldwide manufacturing of their flagship virtual and augmented reality camera, the VR180 LucidCam. He will also help increase product production and …

Kuju has teamed up with brand experience agency Ralph Creative to create a one-stop-shop of ground-breaking VR and AR experiences across a variety of platforms and brands, the studio has announced today. The news comes after Kuju co-produced a music remix experience for the single ‘Paris’ from the Grammy Award-winning …

Hand-tracking company Leap Motion has raised another $50m in Series C funding led by JP Morgan Asset Management, the firm has announced. This brings Leap Motion’s total fund-raising amount to just over $94m, according to Crunchbase. As described in a blog post on Leap Motion’s website, the funding will allow …

A team of ex-ARM and Guerrilla Cambridge devs have set up a new company based in Cambridge dedicated to revolutionising the worlds of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology and content. Virtual Arts was initially formed in December 2016 when co-founders Nizar Romdan and Doug Day (CEO and CTO respectively) …

Data from VRDC report shows 35 per cent of developers would release their next title exclusively for the platform

An augmented reality studio founded by two former Valve employees has ceased operations. That’s according to Polygon, which reports that CastAR and closed its internal development studio Eat Sleep Play and laid off around 70 members of staff across its Palo Alto and Salt Lake City offices. A group of …

Microsoft confirm the augmented reality viewer to be in the OS at press conference.

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Magic Light Pictures and Forestry Commission England have teamed up to offer an augmented reality Gruffalo app designed for use in a number of England’s forests. Users follow clues along an interactive trail in an attempt to find the elusive Gruffalo. (For non-parents, The Gruffalo is a hugely successful picture …