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‘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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New Crystal Rift Trailer Reveals Dungeon Level Editor

A grid-based dungeon crawler, Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics. The team behind the Oculus Rift adventure game have released a new trailer, introducing the game's...

NUREN is First VR Project to Receive Unreal Dev Grant

: The New Renaissance is the first VR project to get a slice of Epic Games' development fund, coming to the tune of $18,000 worth of "no strings attached" funds to further the development of the virtual reality experience. Last month, Epic Games announced...

‘[NUREN] The New Renaissance’ Oculus Rift DK2 Demo Now Available (video)

The developers of The New Renaissance have released a demo of their feature-length virtual reality music experience, showing a segment that reminds me of just why I got into this VR business in the first place: dancing robot girls...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 94): Discussing ‘NUREN’, A New VR Experience with Jake Kaufman and Jessie...

I love it when developers send me their stuff to try before it goes live. When I am intrigued by what I see or experience, I immediately try to get them on my podcast to discuss their project. Thus...
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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,...

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....

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...

DODOcase Sells More Than 65,000 Cardboard VR Kits, Now Kickstarting New Version and Open-source VR Tools

DODOcase is probably known by most for their phone and tablet cases, but the San Francisco-based company jumped on an opportunity to get Google Cardboard VR kits into the hands of a VR-hungry public. To date, the company has...

PrioVR Reveal New Designs as They Prepare for Manufacturing

YEI, the company behind the PrioVR motion capture suit for virtual reality applications, has revealed its latest designs as the company prepares to manufacture and ship to its Kickstarter backers. YEI has had a tumultuous time since we first featured the...

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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