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...

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...

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...

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...

David Rowe continues to develop the unofficial CtrlAltStudio Viewer, the first viewer to bring Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2 support to Second Life. The latest alpha release of the viewer supports positional tracking on the Oculus Rift DK2, which Rowe says...

OSVR's 'Hacker Development Kit' version 1.2 is now shipping to selected developers, including the long awaited IR positional tracking system. The company has today updated their SDK to include support for Android devices, adding true cross-platform compatibility to an ecosystem that...

Hey Rifters! UPDATE: Stream Recording with recap!  This week, we investigated the best from the first crop of demos for the DK2, including PolyWorld, Technolust, and Elite: Dangerous. A few technical issues hampered the beginning of the stream, but after...

Oculus' inaugural, dedicated event aimed at bringing together the VR developer community in one place to teach, talk and try VR was by all accounts a great success. But for those of us unlucky enough not to be there...

Blackspace is a rather awesome looking upcoming hybrid-RTS (real time strategy) game which plans to incorporate the Oculus Rift head mounted display. The game, which is notable for being one of the first non-FPS (first person shooter) titles pledging Rift...

Just before nearly doubling their Kickstarter funding goal of $250,000, Fove introduced a new and improved design for their eye-tracking VR headset, making it lighter, smaller, and more ergonomic. Fove calls their new industrial design "refined and enhanced" with the addition of a...

Well, this has been a small roller-coaster. First the new UE4 Redux of acclaimed mystery adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, did have VR support out of the box, then the developer admitted this was a mistake and now...

Contrary to the grandiose presentation that Samsung gave Gear VR at their IFA Unpacked event earlier today, Gear VR will launch in 2014 first under the moniker 'Innovator Edition' which isn't aimed mainstream smartphone users. Despite being around for decades,...

Starbreeze has acquired visual effects (VFX) studio Nozon for €7.1M (~$7.7M), a Belgium-based company known for their pre-rendered PresenZ VR technology which promises to bring 'Pixar levels' of visual quality to real-time VR scenes with positional tracking. PresenZ, introduced by Nozon in 2015,...

In this episode of the Rev VR Podcast, Guy Godin, developer of the Virtual Desktop, joins me in a fun discussion about his amazing app. After doing a bit of personal tech support, Guy was able to help me...

Minecraft Reality is an AR app created by 13th Lab in Conjunction with Minecraft developer Mojang. The app, which is currently only available for iOS devices, allows users to place Minecraft creations in the real world as augmented reality...