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First Look: ‘vTime’ is a “Sociable Network” for Mobile VR, Available Today on Gear VR
Starship, a Liverpool-based digital entertainment studio, has today released vTime on the Gear VR store, the mobile platform's latest social VR app. I got a chance to check out vTime's alpha and sat down with Paul Hollywood, the studios product development director, to find...
AVADirect and Road to VR Launch Exemplar, The Benchmark PC for High-end VR
Road to VR and AVADirect are pleased to announce the launch of Exemplar, a high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Available starting today, Exemplar is made for VR enthusiasts who...
Mozilla Launches A-Frame: VR-capable Websites Starting with One Line of Code
Mozilla today released A-Frame, an open source library for creating virtual reality web experiences without having to know the powerful (but complex) WebGL. Designed for web developers, A-Frame aims to make it easy to create high-performance and responsive virtual reality experiences...
NASA Looks to PlayStation VR to Solve Key Challenge of Space Robot Operation
While NASA has a long history of sending probes and rovers into space, advancements in robotics has made deployment of human-like robots an increasingly attractive prospect. But it turns out that controlling such humanoid robots remotely is challenging. NASA and...
Unboxing The Challenges of VR Cinema
The great fun in VR right now is that when you strip away all of the bluster, all of the marketing speak, and all of the ego posturing the truth, we’ve only scratched the surface of how this new...
Inside ‘Ixian Gate’ – An Otherworldly, Surrealist Dream Come to Life
Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies...
What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry
Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...
Here We Go (Again): The VR Industry Is Spinning up Just like Online Video 10 Years...
Here we go again. A decade ago, it was online video that changed everything. Now virtual reality is set to change the world once more. As we approach the Q1 2016 Oculus Rift release date, you can literally see and...
First Look: PresenZ Shows Navigable Pre-rendered Room-scale VR Scenes
PresenZ is a system developed by VFX studio Nozon which combines some of the essential benefits of pre-rendered imagery with those of real-time interactivity. For the first time the company is demonstrating a room-scale version of a Presenz-enabled scene.
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Review: ‘EVE: Gunjack’ Sets the Bar for Gear VR Turret Shooters
EVE: Gunjack, The mobile counterpart of the hugely anticipated VR multiplayer space shooter EVE:Valkyrie, is released tomorrow on Samsung Gear VR. We go hands-on with the consumer release and find out that CCP Games have succeeded in setting a...
‘The VOID’ Latest Impressions from a Theme Park Industry Veteran
The latest in a semi-regular series of features where Kevin Williams covers the wider aspects of the re-emergence of virtual reality development in consumer and commercial entertainment. In this special feature Kevin gets a chance to try one of the most...
VR as Empathy Machine: Under Promise, Over Deliver
The latest in a series of regular articles exploring virtual reality, Noah Nelson today ponders how the rise of VR film-making may be scuppered by traditionalist attitudes towards the medium and how VR's power to promote human empathy might just not...
How to Record Samsung Gear VR Videos with HQ Audio and Commentary
So, you've got the right Samsung phone and you're sitting patiently for your new Gear VR—currently available for pre-order from Best Buy—which is bound to come any day now, right? There's loads of fun virtual reality apps to download...
Lytro’s ‘Immerge’ 360 3D Light-field Pipeline is Poised to Redefine VR Video
Lytro have today revealed plans which take the company's expertise in 'still' light-field photography into the realm of VR film. The company have developed a scalable end-to-end solution for shooting, processing, editing and rendering next-generation 360 footage that allows a viewer to...
Hands-On with Epic Games’ ‘Bullet Train’ and Oculus Touch at SEA-VR
Guest writer Michael Glombicki attended SEA-VR, a Seattle based virtual reality event, yesterday where local developers Epic Games - creators of Unreal Engine - and went hands-on with their latest Oculus Touch enabled, first person, VR shooter 'Bullet Train'...




















