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AMC Channel Launches 360 Video App Featuring ‘Walking Dead’ 360 Shorts

Popular American cable TV channel AMC has launched the AMC VR app for Gear VR and Daydream featuring 360 video content, movie trailers, and more. Now available on Gear VR and Daydream (and as flat apps on iOS and Android), the...
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‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’ is Out Now on Vive & Rift, Catch the Launch...

The Gallery – Episode 2: Heart of the Emberstone is the anticipated followup to one of VR's first room-scale experiences, Episode 1: Call of the Starseed, and promises to be considerably larger than its predecessor. Heart of the Emberstone today launched...

NextVR to Broadcast NFL Game Highlights in VR Following 5 Games this Season

Are you ready for some VR football highlights? NextVR, a familiar name in VR sports broadcasting—with earlier VR livestreaming initiatives with the NBA, NHL, and more—and the NFL return for a second season of post-game immersive highlight content in...

UK’s Central Bedfordshire College Launches New Immersive Training Institute

A new immersive training facility and program, the Immersive Training Institute (ITI), has been launched Luton, UK in a collaboration between Central Bedfordshire College (CBC) and AI and VR development firm AiSolve. The Institute will put VR and AR technologies in...

Oculus Friday the 13th Flash Sale Brings Deep Discounts to Spooky Rift Games

Just in time for the superstitious day of 'Friday the 13th', a one day flash sale on the Oculus store offers up some big discounts on scary & suspenseful games. With Halloween approaching, it's a ripe time to load up...
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Pixar Announces First VR Project ‘Coco VR’, a ‘Next level social experience’

Revealed during the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Coco VR is Pixar Animation Studios’ first-ever VR project, coming to Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Timed with the launch of Disney-Pixar’s new animated film Coco in November, Coco VR is...

‘Oculus Venues’ Will Let You Watch Sports, Concerts, & More in VR With Up to 1,000...

During the Oculus Connect 4 keynote today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed a new VR experience in development called Oculus Venues, described as a way to view live sports, concerts, and other live events in VR with friends and...

Where & When to Watch Oculus Connect Day 2 Keynote Livestream (including in VR)

Oculus Connect, the company's annual developer conference, goes down this week in San Jose, California on the 11th and 12th at the McEnery Convention Center. If you aren't attending in person you can catch the keynote livestream on several...
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NVIDIA ‘Holodeck’ Collaborative VR Design Tool Opens Applications for Early Access

At today’s GTC Europe conference in Munich, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced an Early Access program for Holodeck, their photorealistic, collaborative VR viewer. Described as the “design lab of the future”, Nvidia Holodeck aims to provide a highly immersive...

HTC Applies for ‘Vive Eclipse’ Trademark in New Zealand

HTC may have more than one new headset in sight than we initially thought when it registered the name 'Vive Focus' in the EU and US. It came to light via the Dutch publication Lets Go Digital that HTC has also applied...

Google Offering $40 Game Bundle With New Daydream View Headset

From now until the end of 2017, Google is offering a game bundle worth $40 with every Daydream View purchase, which includes some of the platform’s best titles. Google’s updated VR headset was announced this week alongside their Pixel...

Intel to Bring 2018 Olympic Winter Games Experience to Windows Mixed Reality

Announced during the main press briefing at Microsoft’s event held in San Francisco, Intel will be bringing a ‘Windows Mixed Reality experience’ for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. This forms part of a multi-year technology partnership between...

Stanford Event Seeks Innovative Uses of VR for Behavioural Health

The first VR Innovation Lab for Behavioral and Brain Health takes place on October 7th at Brainstorm, Stanford University’s new VR/AR startups laboratory. Selected finalists will pitch their innovative solutions for behavioural health problems to the audience and a...

PlayStation Move Sees Minor Hardware Update, Launching Alongside New PSVR Model

Revealed on the Japanese PlayStation blog, Sony is making a few minor adjustments to new Move controllers, timed with the arrival of the updated PlayStation VR headset. In a surprise update to the PlayStation FAQ, Sony announced that PSVR is...

HDMI Cable With Built-In Image Processor Claims to Enhance PSVR Visuals

Thanks to a built-in video processor, the mCable Gaming Edition HDMI cable applies image enhancements—including a custom anti-aliasing-like solution—to most source devices with HDMI output. Marketed mainly towards gaming console HDTV output, the cable also supports 1080p at...
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