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Convrge Holding Leonard Nimoy Tribute Event, Sunday 3pm EST
Convrge, the in-development social VR platform for Oculus Rift, will be hosting a Leonard Nimoy Tribute Event this Sunday.
The Convrge team sent out the event announcement via email earlier today:
Hey everyone,
Shawn and I are huge fans of Star Trek and...
Skyrim Composer Jeremy Soule Signs with CloudHead Games for ‘The Gallery’ Score
Cloudhead Games, one of the earliest VR studios to begin production on a project for the Oculus Rift, today announced that they've signed Jeremy Soule, the composer behind Skyrim (2011) and many others, to score the company's forthcoming title, The...
Sublevel Zero Trailer Reveals VR-Enabled Descent-style Action
Mastertronic have just released a 'announce' trailer for their Sigtrap developed, 6 degrees of freedom shooter Sublevel Zero, which looks to be heavily inspired by the classic PC shooter Descent.
Packing 3D pixel-art style visuals and Oculus Rift DK2 support,...
Beautiful Oculus Rift Puzzler ‘Pneuma: Breath of Life’ Hits Steam
A new puzzler from developers Deco Digital has just hit Steam available for a limited time with 10% off.
The game has you playing the god 'Pneuma', traversing a beautiful, puzzling world rendered using the cutting-edge Unreal 4 engine accompanied by your...
Epic Games Offering up Cash from $5 Million Fund to ‘Anyone Making Cool Things with UE4’
Epic Games is offering developers a "no strings attached" piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are...
New CastAR Promo Video Shows a Vision of an Augmented Home
Technical Illusions, the company behind the CastAR augmented reality glasses, have just revealed a new promo video showing their vision of an augmented home.
"We're committed to not making "high concept" videos that most people do. For our Kickstarter we...
Apple Posts New Job Listing for Senior Software Engineer with “proven Track Record in Virtual and...
On the tail of their newly granted patent for a mobile head mounted display, Apple is continuing to search for new hires that would bring augmented and virtual reality experience to the company.
It first came to light that Apple...
Magic Leap CEO to Take to the Stage at TED 2015 in March
Additions to the TED 2015 speaker lineup have been announced, and Rony Abovitz, Founder, CEO and President of Magic Leap, is heading to the conference to speak about... to reveal... well, we're not too sure really—par for the course considering the...
‘Proton Pulse’ Free on Android for Google Cardboard, 3D Brick-Breaking Action from Maker of ‘Vanguard V’
Proton Pulse for Google Cardboard is free of cost for a whole month starting today on the Google Play store. The full game, which came to Cardboard in December 2014, has 53 different levels and 5 boss battles to keep you playing on...
Samsung Gear VR Now Available from Best Buy for $199
Previously only available online from Samsung, the Gear VR mobile headset is now available in the US from Best Buy, one of the country's largest electronics retailers.
The $199 Gear VR package (headset only, no bundled gamepad) is now available...
Students Create Real World AdBlock, Keeps Your Augmented Reality Ad-Free
The University of Pennsylvania's winter hackathon, PennApps, is now over, and we're not surprised to see a few VR experiences in the winners circle. Brand Killer, an application running on a custom-built VR headset, was unfortunately not among them, but...
DirectX 12 Coming to Unity 5, Can Increase CPU-bound Game Performance by 50%
Microsoft further detailed DirectX 12 at yesterday's Windows 10 address, and promised that not only could it increase performance in CPU-bound games by up to a staggering 50%, but also announced that DirectX 12 would be heading to Unity...
Samsung’s Gear VR International Rollout Begins With 4 EU Territories
At CES 2015, Oculus said that the Samsung Gear VR mobile headset would begin its international rollout before the month's end. True to their word, the headset has become available for purchase in three European countries and is up...
Microsoft HoloLens Reveal Concept Video
Prior to actually showing the device on stage at a Windows 10 press event today, Microsoft rolled a concept video giving examples of how the company envisions the device being used.
None of this is particularly new when you look...
‘Never Blind in VR’ Keeps You in Contact with Your Surroundings Using Kinect 2 (video)
Using a Kinect 2, French firm Dassault Systemes has recently demonstrated a solution to some of the problems associated with the isolating nature of modern VR headsets. The company has prototyped a system that not only allows you access...

















