Matthew Terndrup
To help raise awareness and show the impact of Ebola in that area, the United Nations and Vice Media teamed up with a virtual reality production company, VRSE, to tell the story of one survivor using 360 degree immersive...
WEVR's theBlu: Encounter was one of only a handful of titles to grace Valve's demo suite when the HTC Vive was revealed at GDC 2015 in March. Matthew Terndrup paid a visit to the developers' headquarters to spend some...
Welcome to Zenka's Mini-museum of VR History
Jenny Carden, aka Zenka, is a Los Angeles-based artist who created a unique exhibit that showcases the history of virtual reality. More than 20 life-sized ceramic raku 'masks' depict notable virtual reality and...
VR production team WEVR made a splash at the recent VRLA Spring Expo last week when they turned up with SteamVR and the HTC Vive headset to demonstrate the VR platform to attendees. It was an opportunity for writer Matthew...
The DAQRI Smart Helmet is a prototype in the works by a Los Angeles-based company who is approaching augmented reality from an industrial standpoint rather than a commercial one. It features thermal imaging, head tracking, motion sensing, pattern recognition,...
International developers have been waiting patiently to buy Samsung's Gear VR mobile headset internationally ever since the US release on December 8th. Many of them have their virtual reality applications ready to go, yet they have no way...
UploadVR is marking the start of an 11 city international tour of VR enthusiast gatherings tonight with a VR World Tour Kickoff event in San Francisco. Can't make it? The panel discussions will be livestreamed.
2015 is already primed to be...
During a recent virtual reality hackathon at OCVR, I was able to try out a crazy contraption called the Virtusphere—essentially a giant acrylic human hamster ball that lets the user feel like they are walking through a virtual world....
Deep inside the inlands of Florida, a technology conference was held that brought together a collection of virtual reality headsets and simulations that focused primarily on military applications. The event was called I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) and...
The multinational conglomerate company known as Siemens has partnered up with a team of artists and developers from London to highlight the company's engineering abilities using the Oculus Rift DK2 headset.
The story begins when Siemens approached the UK-based company...
A collection of virtual reality experiences were developed during a 24 hour coding marathon hosted by Comcast NBCUniversal in Hollywood earlier this month. We dropped in quickly after just getting back from the Samsung Developer Conference 2014 to investigate what...
Samsung officially showed off 13 Gear VR titles at SDC 2014 last week. The titles, which varied from games to 360 video experiences, were being showcased on the second floor in the Game Zone area of the event. Eight...
In a surprise announcement at SDC, Samsung revealed Project Beyond, a 360 degree 3D camera for filming virtual reality content. We got to take a look at the unit first hand and experience the VR video that it captures.
Project Beyond...
Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...
The 1st official virtual reality meetup in Long Beach was hosted at California State University Long Beach on November 4th, 2014 which brought together people from all over the West Coast. LBVR’s foundation is one built on the cross-section...
