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Submission + - HTC Vive Consumer Release Date Announced, Second Developer Kit Coming in January

Submitted by Will Mason on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @06:59PM

Will Mason writes: The long awaited HTC Vive VR headset finally got a release date, April 2016. This comes despite the reports at launch that the headset would release this year. In addition, HTC plans to unveil a second developer kit for the Vive at CES this year. Recently, HTC's head of marketing, who said on stage that the product would launch this year, jumped ship for the elusive Magic Leap start up in Florida.

Submission + - Lytro announces world's first light field VR camera

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 05, 2015 @09:19AM

An anonymous reader writes: VR is easy for video games, but hard for live action: you don't know where the viewer will be in the virtual world, so you can't put the camera in the right place in the real world. Light field cameras are perfect for VR though, because they're essentially holographic, and capture lots of positions at once. And Lytro has announced the first system that's both 'light field' and 'holographic', which changes everything.

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