Welcome to the Week That Was on TheVirtualReport.biz, where we bring you the highlights, biggest news and hottest topics from the world of VR, AR and MR business in the last seven days.
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Samsung’s Standalone VR HMD Revealed
New all-in-one eye-tracking headset breaks cover at Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
Google Releases In-VR 3D Modelling Tool
Free Blocks app makes making models in VR child’s play.
Virtual Time Travel: Explore 16th Century Edinburgh
Scotland's University of St Andrews releases new VR app taking users back in time to 1544.
Guardian’s New 360 Video Seeks Asylum On Cardboard
British newspaper releases animated VR documentary detailing the plight of refugees.
British broadcaster’s new app features Planet Earth II alongside other BBC Three content and full-length documentary, One Deadly Weekend in America.
Apple’s AR hand gesture patent; Devs move to higher end; Snapchat buys AR IP; Nasdaq; Nike Momofuku; Porn all-in-one hardware.
Rift Gets Mixed Reality. Kinda.
Oculus’ new native MR capture enables developers to merge live footage of users with VR.
Steel Media Launches Into The PC Games Business
UK-based media house – and home of TheVirtualReport.biz - expands its consumer tech portfolio.
Is ‘Virtual’ More Important For The Medium Than ‘Reality’?
Lone developer Tom Graczyk talks about his experience of creating a VR game on a zero budget and what it meant to place fourth in the Global VR Challenge.
Resolution Games' Tommy Palm On 2m Downloads For Bait!
Swedish CEO reflects on two million downloads on a young platform and the potential of mobile VR.
The Future Of VR Revealed At VR Connects San Francisco
IDG's Yoshio Osaki shares the odds on VR/AR scenarios from total failure to world domination.
$800m Investment In AR/VR In Q2 2017
Tim Merel, founder and MD at international tech advisors, Digi-Capital, examines the most recent round of investments and looks forward to the sector's growth potential.
Japan’s Smelly Start-up Raises $600,000
Vaqso gets more than half-a-million dollars to further develop its scent enabling device for VR.
MelodyVR’s Global Partnership With Microsoft
Music app gets support from Microsoft for all WMR devices.
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