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Get Free Courtside VR Seats to Spurs vs. Timberwolves NBA Game This Tuesday

Own Gear VR or Daydream View? Then you've got access to free courtside seats to this Tuesday's forthcoming Timberwolves vs. Spurs NBA game live... in VR of course. This Tuesday, January 17th, NextVR is offering a free pass to watch...
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GDC 2013: Inside Half Life 2 with the $15,000 NVIS SX60 Head Mounted Display

At GDC 2013 I spent some time with the folks from Forth Dimension Displays, maker high-end microdisplays. The company's CEO, Greg Truman, told me in an interview that they were at GDC mainly to evangelize VR. To that end they...

Tickets Now Available: First Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference & Expo, May 19–20

Tickets are now available for the first Silicon Valley Virtual Reality (SVVR) Conference and Expo event. To mark the event, Karl Krantz walks us through the short but already history of the social event from which it was born. SVVR...

ST1080 HMD Production Models Get Additional 3D support and a More Modern Look

By now you've heard that the ST1080 is finally shipping out to pre-order customers. The company has posted photos of the final packaging and final design which gives the ST1080 a needed sprucing-up! Support for additional 3D formats has...

nVidia Launches GTX 980ti GPU Targeting Virtual Reality and 4k Gaming

nVidia has launched the first salvo in the impending VR GPU wars as it launched it's newest graphics card, the GTX 980ti. The message from the GPU giant is clear: if you're a gamer interested in either 4k or...

News Bits: Impressive VR Lightsaber Video Uses the Oculus Rift and a Serious Mo-Cap Rig

Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber. Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...

HTC ‘Vive’ SteamVR Headset Image Surfaces

The previously shrouded image of the rumoured Steam VR headset has finally been revealed. Following the HTC World Mobile Conference press conference, the HTC 'Vive' looks to be SteamVR's reference headset. This is what it looks like. The first high resolution...
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Virtuix Omni Walks the Wasteland in Fallout 4, Powered by VorpX

The Virtuix Omni is well on its way to being the first consumer-facing VR treadmill to hit the market, with the first shipments set to go out in next month. In the mean time, Virtuix is keeping the hype...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 92): Interview with Sky Nite, Author of ‘Virtual Reality Insider’

We've all seen those 'books' about VR that seem to be nothing more than a quick cash grab, taking advantage of a burgeoning industry and hoping to dupe a few suckers into spending a few dollars. I am here...
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‘Action Star: Parachute’ VR Experience Has You Throwing Yourself Out of a Plane

Istanbul based digital workshop Codemodeon have come up with a VR experience which adopts some clever mechanics to sell the illusion of throwing yourself out of a plane and parachuting to an island paradise. We've come across Codemodeon's brand of bespoke virtual...

‘The Last Starfighter’ TV Spin-off to Integrate Virtual Reality Enabled Scenes

1984 cult classic The Last Starfighter, beloved by 80's video-gamers the world over, is coming back in a new TV spin-off that will apparently feature scenes created for virtual reality. The Last Starfighter (1984) is one of those cult classics...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 60): A Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Virtual Reality...

Digital Out-of-Home Entertainment specialist, Kevin Williams joins me in this episode of the Rev VR Podcast. We discuss virtual reality's rocky history, some interesting developments in the Arcade world, and make a few predictions for the future. When I last...
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The Gallery Kickstarter Fully Funded, Still Needs $5k for Razer Hydra Support

Just a quick note of congratulations to the folks of CloudHead Games who just had their Kickstarter campaign for The Gallery: Six Elements fully funded. The game, which is influenced by the Myst series, brings ground-up support for the Oculus Rift. The Razer...

High School Student Designs Snap-together Cardboard, Kickstarter Now Live

A high school student from Perth, Australia, has launched a Kickstarter campaign focused on a novel plastic VR smartphone adapter, that unlike many designs on the market actually snaps apart to retain its flat pack portability. https://d2pq0u4uni88oo.cloudfront.net/projects/1591136/video-523918-h264_high.mp4 Since its initial release back in summer of 2014, Google...

News Bits: YEI Announces PrioVR Shipping Delay, New Video of Alpha Demos

July was going to be 'the month of VR', with the expected arrival of several major virtual reality accesories from previously successful Kickstarter campaigns, along with the Oculus Rift DK2. PrioVR, the motion capture suit for VR, is the...
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