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‘Wearality SKY’ Promises Pocketable 150 Degree FOV VR Smartphone Adapter, Kickstarter is Live

Wearality wants to make mobile VR even more mobile with their VR smartphone adapter that not only delivers a seriously wide field of view (FOV) at an impressive 150 degrees, but also folds up to fit neatly in your pocket. Wearality SKY...
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Half Life 2 Modded for Oculus Rift Virtual Reality — Independent Head and Gun Movement [video]

Here's a brief video showing the work of Nathan Andrews who is modding Half Life 2 for virtual reality and the Oculus Rift. In almost all modern first-person shooters, where you look and where you aim are one in...

You Can Now Photoshop the World in Real-time With AR on an iPhone

WarpAR is a free iOS app from developer Matt Bierner which lets you use Photoshop-like liquify tools to dynamically modify the world through AR. More than just a cool tech demo, it also helps us imagine what the future...
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Theme Park Studio Coming With Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra Support

Theme Park Studio lets you design your own amusement park and ride the roller coaster of your dreams; with a set of convenient editor tools for quick content creation and both Oculus Rift and Razer Hydra support, the program...

Retinad’s Promising VR Ad and Analytics System is Now Backed with a $500,000 Investment

Retinad, a company working to bring immersive advertising and analytics to virtual reality, has just closed a $500,000 early-stage round to bring their solution to market. Avoiding the worst case banner-in-your-face approach, the company is jumping feet first into VR,...

15 New PSVR Game Trailers From Paris Games Week

Paris Games Week is here and Sony has revealed a slew of new trailers showing off their lineup of PSVR games coming in 2017 and 2018. Grab some popcorn, because here's 21 minutes of fresh footage. Eden Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfdXvFLZltk&t=13s Developer: Soulpix Release Date:...

Sphericam 2 is a Tiny 360 Camera Sporting 4K Resolution, Kickstarter Nears Funding Goal

Sphericam 2 is a 360-degree camera offering 4K video capture in a very small package, and aims to deliver immersive video specifically targeted at VR headsets. The Czech Republic based team calls their geometric crystalline camera "no bigger than a tennis ball,"...

Big ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Update Brings Oculus SDK v0.7 and Unity 5 Upgrades

Sightline: The Chair is a virtual reality demo designed as a sort of showcase for the technology and one we're a big fan of. Now, developer Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík of has released the latest iteration and it's packed with technical...

‘Ultrawings’ Studio Teases Sequel, Promises Larger Open World & “healthy dose of combat”

Bit Planet Games, the developer behind Ultrawings (2017), has teased a few clips of the upcoming standalone sequel to the open world flight game. The original Ultrawings offers up multiple aircraft to fly around in, and a variety of missions across its island-themed world....
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Interactive VR Film ‘Human Within’ Brings ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ Style User Choice to Quest in January

Human Within is a sci-fi interactive VR film coming to Quest in January that explores how AI affects humanity. Departing from standard VR films, which are usually pretty 'one-and-done', the upcoming interactive experience promises to give you the choice in...

Valve: New VR Users on Steam Grew by 11% in 2021, Unique Play Sessions Up 22%

New figures directly from Valve reveal the growth of VR users on Steam in 2021. Shared by Valve this week, the Steam 2021 Year in Review gives us some fresh official stats about VR usage on the platform. Valve says "new...

This ‘Fallout 4 VR’ Modpack Brings VR-native Overhaul to the Wasteland

There are a ton of Fallout 4 VR mods out there since it launched on the first generation of consumer VR headsets back in 2017, most of which you can find on NexusMods. If you're looking for an all-in-one solution that...

META Raises $50M in Funding to Accelerate “Groundbreaking” AR Tech

On Monday, Meta, the company building AR HMDs that allow the wearer to manipulate holographic objects within the wearer’s visual field and the headset’s field of view (90 degrees, in the Meta II), among other things, announced that it's...

Report: Microsoft Braces for Negative Field Tests of Military HoloLens

Microsoft is supposedly gearing up to field test its HoloLens-based military AR headset, however a new report contends the company is bracing for impact, as it's expecting negative feedback from soldiers. Last year, Microsoft announced it had won a United States...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep.67): Interview with the Sony Project Morpheus Team at E3 2014

I had some time on the last day of E3 2014 to hang out with Anton Mikhailov and Jeff Stafford, members of the Sony Project Morpheus team. They were wrapping up their final demos and wanted me to come...
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