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‘Ghost in the Shell’ VR Experience is an Awe-Inspiring Deep Dive into the Mind of Major

The live-action Ghost in the Shell (2017) film starring Scarlett Johansson is already in theaters worldwide, but Oculus has today published the VR experience so you can get a slice of the android-kicking action direct on your Gear VR or Oculus Rift. Created...
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Eye-tracking Glasses Give Glimpse into Professional Pianist’s Perception

For immersive technologies like AR and VR to be effective, they need to understand not only about our world, but also about us. But we don't even understand us all that well yet; as we capture more biometric information on...

‘River’ VR Accelerator Startups Showcased at Founder Field Day (part 1)

The first class of Rothenberg Ventures' 'River' VR accelerator have graduated. Thirteen companies, in which Rothenberg invested a combined $1.3 million, showed off their latest work at the company's annual Founder Field Day event. Road to VR was on the...

Exclusive: Enter the World of Spirits in the Spirited Away Boiler Room Oculus Rift Demo (download...

Developer Nick Pittom has spent the last few weeks recreating a small scene from Spirited Away, one of Japan's most successful films. From the outset, Pittom wanted to produce a faithful recreation of this beloved film for enjoyment in...

Official: Sony Sold Nearly 1 Million PlayStation VR Headsets in 4.5 Months, Despite Limited Stock

Sony is the first of the big three tethered VR headset makers to drop official PSVR sales figures: 915,000 PlayStation VR headsets sold as of February 19. And it likely could have been more, save for the fact that the device...
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New ‘EVE: Valkyrie’ Update ‘Groundrush’ is Bringing Planet-based Dogfights

EVE: Valkyrie (2016), the arcade dogfighter from EVE Online studio CCP Games, is about to get a big update that promises to take the game in what lead game dev Andrew Willans says via an official Sony blogpost "new and exciting...

Oculus Brings Rift to 90 Libraries in California for Public Access VR

Oculus has announced a pilot program to place 100 Rifts and Oculus Ready PCs in 90 libraries throughout the state of California, from the Oregon border down to Mexico. Detailed on the Oculus Blog, the new partnership with the...

Believe the Hype: HypeVR’s Volumetric Video Capture is a Glimpse at the Future of VR Video

After having teased the tech toward the end of last year, we've finally gone hands-on with HypeVR's volumetric video captures which lets you move around inside of VR videos. Inherent Limitations of 360 Video Today's most immersive VR video productions are...

Exclusive: Meet Totoro and the Catbus in ‘My Neighbour Totoro VR – Bus Stop Scene’ Oculus...

The mind behind the Spirited Away VR – Boiler Room Scene has been toiling away, recreating another scene from a beloved Studio Ghibli film. This time it's the bus stop scene from My Neighbor Totoro (1988), and it's ready to...

Star Trek Voyager VR is The first Indie Oculus Rift Demo to Use Unreal Engine 4...

Unreal Engine 4 shipped with out-of-the-box support for the Oculus Rift recently and the first demo supporting the VR Headset has just been released. Thomas Kadlec's 'Starship Bridge Demo' puts you on the bridge of Star Trek's Voyager. Update 2:...

Review: ‘EVE: Gunjack’ Sets the Bar for Gear VR Turret Shooters

EVE: Gunjack, The mobile counterpart of the hugely anticipated VR multiplayer space shooter EVE:Valkyrie, is released tomorrow on Samsung Gear VR. We go hands-on with the consumer release and find out that CCP Games have succeeded in setting a...

StarVR Detailed Hands-on: Big Field of View, Even Bigger Potential

We go hands on with the latest StarVR headset prototype from Starbreeze Studios, sporting a 210 degree field of view and dual quad-HD panels as demoed at E3 with Overkill's The Walking Dead experience. The InfinitEye team's metamorphosis from part-time garage hackers to...

‘HOLOSCOPE’ Headset Claims to Solve AR Display Hurdle with True Holography

Holo-this, holo-that. Holograms are so bamboozling that the term often gets used colloquially to mean 'fancy-looking 3D image', but holograms are actually a very specific and interesting method for capturing light field scenes which have some real advantages over...
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Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile

Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...
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NVIDIA Explains Pascal’s ‘Lens Matched Shading’ for More Efficient VR Rendering

The graphics pipeline in NVIDIA's new 'Pascal' GPUs has been rearchitected with features which can significantly enhance VR rendering performance. Here the company explains how Simultaneous Multi-projection and Lens Matched Shading work together to increase VR rendering efficiency. As the name...
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