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Official CONAN App Now Lets You Watch Clips and Behind-the-scenes in VR on Android and iOS
The official Team Coco app, which has previously offered up 360-degree Conan clips and behind-the-scenes footage from late night host Conan O'Brien, has added VR support for their 360 videos for Google Cardboard and other smartphone VR viewers.
Compatible iOS or Android smartphones can...
ILMxLab Creative Director John Gaeta Talks Immersive Star Wars Experiences and More this Sunday in Convrge
Convrge, the social VR space that regularly hosts events and weekly meetups, have announced a talk led by John Gaeta, the visual effects artist of The Matrix trilogy and current creative director of Industrial Light and Magic's xLab.
The talk is entitled "The Future...
Matterport Raises $30 Million to Bolster Professional and Consumer Environmental VR Mapping
Matterport, a company specializing in the capture and digital reconstruction of real-world environments, has announced a $30 million Series C investment round led by Qualcomm Ventures.
The company says that the new investment brings its total funding to $56 million....
Jaunt and Google Announce ‘High-End’ Cinematic Content Collaboration
360 degree immersive video specialist Jaunt VR has today announced that it's become a preferred VR content creator for Google as the search giant ramps up its presence in the VR space.
Jaunt has risen to become one of the most...
Getty Images Brings 360 Photos to Gear VR, Coming Soon to Oculus Rift
Getty Images, the stock image company known for its vast archive of copyrighted photos, is now publishing some of their spherical content on the Gear VR '360 Photos' app, with the promise of future access on the new Oculus Rift...
IC Real Tech Closes $15M Investment Round to Develop 360 VR Streaming Cameras
IC Real Tech, a Florida based company specializing in surveillance cameras, has recently announced a successful investment round closing out at $15 million. Investment funds will go to continue development on the company's pro-level IC720 camera and the consumer-level ALLie 360 x...
CryEngine 3.8.1 Released, Adds Oculus Rift and Linux Support
Crytek have announced the launch of the latest iteration of their CryEngine game engine. The big news is, it finally includes native support for the Oculus Rift VR headset.
CryTek are another company seemingly reinvigorated in the face of the...
Gameplay Video: World War Toons on Sony’s Morpheus at E3 2015
Sony's Morpheus had a huge presence at E3 this year with the system present in nearly 20 demos on the show floor. World War Toons by Reload was one of them. Here's a short gameplay video of the game in...
David Attenborough’s ‘First Life’ is a Virtual Reality Documentary for Gear VR
First Life is a VR documentary hosted by the widely influential Sir David Attenborough, best known for his 9 part Life series beginning back in 1979, the latest of which came out in 2008. The VR experience is showing now on Gear VR headsets...
This is How You Remove and Replace the Oculus Rift Headphones (video)
From the first time that Oculus revealed the 'Crescent Bay' prototype back at Oculus Connect 2014, they said they knew that no matter how good they made the headphones, some people would still prefer to use their own. And...
‘Paranormal Activity’ VR Game Coming to All Major Headsets in 2016
Paranormal Activity, Paramount Pictures' horror film franchise, is soon to be made into a VR video game set to release on all major headsets next year.
Paranormal Activity VR, a creation from Beast Media's VRwerx, will be coming to HTC Vive, Sony...
Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL
SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality.
Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...
Untold Games Bringing Loading Human to Sony Morpheus, Demoing at E3
Loading Human, a ambitious made-for-VR adventure game, in development for the Oculus Rift have announced it's on its way to Sony's Project Morpheus too.
London based Untold Games' Loading Human is a game with high ideals when it comes to VR....
Oculus Earmarks $10 Million for Indie VR Devs in Biggest Content Investment Yet
Oculus announced at their pre-E3 'Step into the Rift' event that they would be committing more than $10 million to accelerate indie VR developers. The investment fund signifies the largest amount of money ever publicly earmarked by Oculus for third-party content...
GTA Publisher Take-Two Interactive “Still in R&D land” When it Comes to VR
Speaking with the Wall Street Journal, Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says that the company is still far from deploying virtual reality games.
The Wall Street Journal's Sarah E. Needleman spoke with CEO Strauss Zelnick of Take-Two Interactive, owner of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar...


















