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‘Wearality SKY’ Promises Pocketable 150 Degree FOV VR Smartphone Adapter, Kickstarter is Live

Wearality wants to make mobile VR even more mobile with their VR smartphone adapter that not only delivers a seriously wide field of view (FOV) at an impressive 150 degrees, but also folds up to fit neatly in your pocket. Wearality SKY...

Get a Real Workout in Virtual Reality with the Widerun Bike Trainer, Now on Kickstarter

Stationary biking is boring almost anyway you slice it. And while some people can zone out to music or lock their attention to a TV screen, others crave something a little more interactive. This is where Widerun sees their made-for-VR cycling system, a...

‘Ground Control’ and ‘Stompz’, Two Natural VR Controllers for Your Feet

The VR community has been rattling its cage for intuitive input devices for quite a while now, and because nobody really knows exactly what that means yet, we're entertaining anything and everything until we do. Here we take a look...

‘Roto VR’: the Chair That Aims to Drastically Reduce Sim Sickness, Kickstarter Now Live

Roto VR has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for its rotating chair design that promises to reduce simulator induced nausea, and give the user more control inside the virtual environment without getting tangled up in wires. Roto VR, a London based company,...

‘Nuren’ and ‘Apollo 11’ VR Experiences Successfully Funded on Kickstarter

Two exciting non-game Kickstarters projects out of the VR community that we've been watching over the last few weeks have hit their goal. Nuren: The New Renaissance Nuren: The New Renaissance is a feature-length VR musical being built in Unreal Engine 4. The experience...

Apollo 11 Educational Experience Nears Kickstarter Goal With 3 Days Remaining

The clock is ticking for Immersive VR Education's Apollo 11 Virtual Reality Experience. With only 3 days left in the Kickstarter campaign, the team is more than 75% of the way to reaching their crowdfunding goal. The educational applications of VR have...

‘NUREN’ Passes 50% Crowdfunding Mark, Classic Console Musician Chris Hülsbeck Signs On

NUREN: The New Renaissance has now obtained more than half of its crowdfunding goal, and with only a few days left until the close of their campaign they've also announced that they'll be tacking on another big name in video game music...
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‘NUREN’ Lands on Kickstarter for “Feature-Length VR Music Experience” for the Oculus Rift

The New Renaissance is planned to be an interactive cinematic VR experience, more than an hour in runtime, featuring original music and voice-acting. The project, which will work in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift, and on standard...

SEER 100 Degree FOV ‘Augmented Reality’ Headset Approaches $100,000 Kickstarter Goal

SEER, an augmented reality device from San Francisco/Shenzhen based Caputer Labs Inc, launched their Kickstarter campaign in late January, and have already reached beyond $75,000 of their $100,000 funding goal. The device, which takes advantage of the user's smartphone,...

Final Week: Pinć VR Nears Crowdfunding Goal for Smartphone Case That Transforms into a VR Headset

There's only a week remaining in Pinć VR's crowdfunded drive to take mobile VR out of backpacks and makeshift carry cases and put it straight in your pocket, and with the recently addition of support for selected Android devices,...

The Race to Create the ‘YouTube of VR’ is On

Competitors are lining up to introduce the world to the very first 360 degree video-sharing service, a concept that could soon become an industry standard for both the newly emerging mobile VR scene and PC-driven VR headsets alike. VCEMO (pronounced...

Ethereon Launches Kickstarter – A VR Adventure Game Inspired by the Classics

An ominous, desolate world awaits, and you, the silent explorer, must traverse the remains of a once great civilization and unlock its secrets to escape the clutches of puzzle-induced insanity. Did you see someone over your shoulder? It couldn't be....

Pinć VR Wants to Hide a VR Headset in Your iPhone 6 Case, Indiegogo Now Live

Move over Google Cardboard and Durovis Dive, because Pinć wants a seat at the mobile VR table, and with their new iPhone 6 case—which hides a small form factor VR headset—they'll be needing a little elbow room. Cordon Media, a Toronto-based...

What Happens When You Live in VR for a Month Straight? One Man Aims to Find...

Mark Farid, a British artist based in London, wants to strap into a head-mounted display for 28 days straight—and we're not talking about a month of Minecrift. Farid's new Kickstarter campaign, called Seeing I, is supposed to straddle a...

After Raising More Than $55,000, Dexta Robotics Cancels Kickstarter for Haptic Hand Exoskeleton

After raising just over $55,000 with the assistance of online crowdfunding, the Chinese mechanical exoskeleton company Dexta Robotics has canceled the Dexmo campaign on Kickstarter. This affordable mechanical exoskeleton was developed to provide forceful feedback to those wearing it and...
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