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New Oculus Rift Experience ‘Lunadroid 237′ Out Now from Unello Design
Today Unello Design launches their latest Oculus Rift experience, Lunadroid 237. The experience puts the player on the surface of the Moon, during the U.S. manned missions, exploring as they find out who, or what, they are.
Launched at a...
GameFace Mobile VR Headset Will Also Tether to PCs Through Valve’s OpenVR
GameFace Labs showed off their latest prototype mobile VR headset at E3 last week, a device that promises to deliver both a standalone Android-based mobile VR experience and a tethered PC experience in the same headset.
GameFace calls their prototype headset a head...
Project Holodeck Seeks to Create a Low Cost Full-motion VR Gaming Environment with the Help of...
A team of 25 members is working at the University of Southern California to create a full-motion virtual reality gaming environment, they're calling it Project Holodeck. By 'full-motion' I mean that the playspace allows the user to actually walk...
Exclusive: OTOY Shows Us Live-captured Light Fields in the HTC Vive
Rendering specialist Otoy has as of late taken to deep exploration of light fields as a medium for rendering high fidelity virtual reality scenes. While the company's computer-generated ray-traced light fields are great for viewing CGI envrioments, what happens...
Oculus Co-founder, Palmer Luckey, Also Confirms Oculus Rift Developer Kit 2 Coming in 2014
Earlier words from Oculus CTO, John Carmack, seemed to confirm that a second Oculus Rift developer kit (DK2) was in the works, but the language was a bit ambiguous. Now, Oculus Co-founder Palmer Luckey explains clearly that a second...
HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR
This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...
‘TheWaveVR’ Raises $2.5 Million Seed Investment for Social VR Music Platform
TheWaveVR is a social VR music platform which allows DJs to mix tracks live in VR in front of a virtual audience which can connect to experience the performance from around the world.
The company announced today that it's raised...
Irony and Toilet Humor Come to Oculus Rift in City Quest and TATS
I've got two Oculus Rift demos to share with you today; both funny in their own regard. First is City Quest, a 2D point-and-click adventure which may embody the most pointless use of virtual reality yet. Then there's TATS,...
Hands-on: Oculus Touch 2016 Prototype Brings Refinements to an Already Elegant Design
Oculus Touch won't launch until the second half of 2016, but the company continues to iterate on the impressively ergonomic VR controller. We went hands-on with their latest prototype at GDC 2016 last week.
This article discusses the changes between...
Inition ‘AR vs. VR’ Showcases the Latest in AR/VR Tech — Kevin Williams Reports
On Tuesday this week, Inition, a UK-based company specializing in the development of real-time 3D graphics applications, held an event to showcase the latest in 3D AR and VR technology. Present at the showcase was Kevin Williams, who agreed...
The Gallery to be Demo’d on Steam VR at GDC “You will not believe this tech”
Cloudhead Games, the developers behind the Kickstarter backed Oculus Rift adventure The Gallery have announced that not only have they been working on bringing their game to Steam VR and the freshly announced HTC Vive headset, but that they'll be...
Is Sony Turning Away from Mainstream VR? New HMD is Designed for Surgery
In a curious move away from virtual reality gaming, Sony has announced a revamped version of their HMZ-T2 head mounted display specifically designed for surgical use. The company is calling it the HMM-3000MT. Along with the HMD comes the 'head-mount...
NextVR Demonstrates Its First Live Broadcast, Brings California Sun to Icy Michigan
NextVR has completed yesterday what they're calling "the first ever live, broadcast quality transmission of a virtual reality experience," a live-streaming, 180 degree video designed especially for VR headsets. The transmission virtually transported Engadget's Senior HD Editor, Richard Lawler, from his...
Google Bringing VR to iPhone, Cardboard App Now Available on iOS with New Demos
Ready or not, Apple, here comes virtual reality on the iPhone courtesy of Google. The search giant has now released the official Cardboard app for iOS with a few brand new demos. What's more, the Cardboard SDK is compatible...
Epic Games Releases ‘Showdown’ UE4 VR Demo, Compatible with Rift, Vive, and Morpheus
Epic Games has shown the world some of the most visually stunning VR experiences to date, and today, one of them (Showdown) is being released for free as a UE4 VR sample for developers to learn from.
Showdown was created...

















