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Preview Two Promising VR Entries in Leap Motion’s ‘3D Jam’: Soundscape VR and Weightless (videos)

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' is a developer competition sponsored by IndieCade, and centers around the popular 3D motion controller, Leap Motion. With contestants vying for $75,000 in prizes, you can imagine that the competition to produce interactive environments that...

‘The North Face’ Brings the Wilderness to You Courtesy of Jaunt’s Cinematic VR

Jaunt VR, a company specialising in 360 VR Video, has collaborated with outdoor apparel giant 'The North Face', going out on into the wilderness to create a VR experience which captures the beauty of the great outdoors in 360...

Valve’s Michael Abrash Joins Oculus as Chief Scientist—Breaking

And we thought all the exciting Oculus news was done for the week... Valve's Michael Abrash is joining the company as Chief Scientist.Oculus just announced that Michael Abrash, formerly of Valve, will be joining the company as Chief Scientist....

Exclusive: VorpX Teaser — Crysis 3 on the Oculus Rift [video]

We were lucky enough to recently get our hands on the latest beta of the soon-to-be-released vorpX DirectX injection drivers, similar in aim to the community supported Vireio Perception offering, which adds Oculus Rift head-tracking, stereoscopic 3D, and pre-warping...

HTC Launches ‘Vive Studios’ for First-party VR Game Development and Publishing

HTC today announced that they've spun up an internal development and publishing group called Vive Studios. Mirroring Oculus' own 'Oculus Studios' effort, HTC has formed an internal VR game studio and publishing group called Vive Studios. Like other first-party studios,...

HTC: Consumer Vive Is “Gonna Look a Lot Different” – Modular Headphones, New Mounting System, and...

While the HTC Vive's room-scale VR experience is one of the best available today, the device itself still needs to undergo a significant metamorphosis from development kit to consumer-ready product. Details about exactly what changes we'll see in the...

Go Show Kickstarter Launches to Bring Virtual Cinemas, YouTube, Hulu, and More to Smartphone VR Headsets

Sam Gebhardt, developer of VR cinema app Go Show, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bolster the feature set of the app. Designed for Smartphone VR headsets, Gebhardt hopes to add custom theaters, streaming media support, and more to...

Google Tango Dev Contest Includes AR/VR Track and $95,000 in Prize Money

Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...

Oculus Rift Easter Egg in Sony’s Morpheus Presentation

Little icons accompanied many of the slides during Sony's Morpheus announcement presentation at GDC 2014. One slide in particular included a nod to Oculus. For those not familiar, the eye icon used on the slide is the same used for...

E3 2014: Cmoar is a Mobile VR Viewer With Swappable Lenses (Video)

It's now fairly unusual for us to attend big shows like E3 without seeing another mobile smartphone VR viewer pop up. As the processing power and 3D rendering capabilities of average smart phones has exploded these days, and that...
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Widescale Tracking and Real Props Make for an Even More Immersive VR Experience

Kenzan, a Geneva based 3D visual effects company, has recently released a video showing a curious motion capture installation that could have you discovering a pharaoh's tomb in a setting that blends the physical world with the virtual. The...

Google Wants to Use Tango Tech for VR, But Admits Current Dev Kits Aren’t Optimized

Project Tango, Google's computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to...

Update to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Prepares Phone for Gear VR Launch (screenshots)

At Samsung's 2014 Developer Conference, it was finally announced that the Gear VR 'Innovator Edition' headset, powered by Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 mobile phone, would be released in early December. The Note 4's latest software update (v4.4.4) indicates Samsung is on track...

Free Gear VR with Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Pre-orders “While Supplies Last”

Samsung today announced their next generation of Galaxy S smartphones, the S7 and S7 Edge. The company says Gear VR will be included for free with pre-orders. On stage at Samsung's Unpacked event in Barcelona today, the company revealed the...

Palmer Luckey on Why Building the Virtual Reality Metaverse is a Moral Imperative (video)

During a panel that I was fortunate to moderate at last week's SVVR Conference & Expo in Mountain View, California, EnterVR's Cris Miranda offered up a question from the audience. He asked Palmer Luckey to elaborate on previous statements that...
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