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News Bits: Jaunt VR Releases Paul McCartney ‘Live and Let Die’ 360 VR Experience on Windows...

Jaunt VR, having received millions in venture capital funding this year, have their sights on pioneering 360 3D VR video content. Their first publicly available experience, Paul McCartney performing "Live and Let Die" live, launched on the Google Play store...

Steam Next Fest to Bring Free Demos from Upcoming VR Games, Starting June 16th

Steam Next Fest, the newly renamed Steam Game Festival, is starting its week-long PC gaming celebration on June 16th, bringing along with it free demos from upcoming VR titles, developer livestreams, and Q&As. As part of Steam Next Fest announcement...

13 Major New Features Added to Quest Since Launch

Since its launch in 2019 Oculus Quest has represented a major shift in Facebook's VR strategy by moving away from the PC. Quest 2, which launched in October 2020, has become the most popular VR headset on the market....

UK Based ‘SouthWest VR’ Conference Announced, Guests Include Oculus, Aardman and Unity

As virtual reality rises, so does the need for its enthusiasts and industry members to meet. The UK has a thriving VR community and a growing industry presence, so the recently announced SouthWest VR Conference on the 24th Feb,...

Road to VR’s Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce to Moderate VR Panels at Samsung Developer Conference...

At next month's annual Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, Road to VR's Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce will moderate the conference's two panels on virtual reality. 2014 will be the first year that Samsung, who announced their...
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‘Ready Player One’ Behind-the-scenes Shows How Spielberg Used VR in Production

As an official partner of Ready Player One, HTC has been using the film to highlight its VR wares. In addition to releasing several VR experiences inspired by the movie, the company has released a behind-the-scenes short showing how immersive...

PSVR Titles ‘The Inpatient’ & ‘Bravo Team’ Delayed Until Early 2018

Supermassive Games has delayed two of its upcoming PSVR titles originally expected for Q4 releases, Bravo Team and The Inpatient. Both games are now set to launch in Q1 of 2018. Bravo Team, a cover-based shooter, was originally slated to launch December 5th; and The...

‘Battlewake’ Review – Explosive Nautical Combat in Need of Deeper Waters

Battlewake is a pirate ship combat game that seems to have it all; not only does it boast a campaign for both solo and two-player co-op, but also online PvP and a co-op 'ongoing missions' mode—certainly nothing to sneeze at in...

Psychedelic Puzzler ‘Squingle’ Shows Just Why Mixed Reality Trailers Are So Important

Squingle, the psychedelic puzzle game for PC VR and Quest, is one of those "so out there, it's difficult to explain" type of experiences. And as VR games creatively explode in every possible direction, the more vital it becomes to pop...
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‘Mindshow’ Revealed by Visionary VR – Stage, Animate, and Record Your Own Stories in VR

Visionary VR today revealed Mindshow at VRLA Summer Expo 2016. The application aims to give anyone access to simple tools to tell stories in virtual reality. After raising $6 million in venture capital earlier this year, Visionary VR has come out...

Delighting Users with Rich Interactions is Key to Making VR Engaging & Effective

VR software has introduced many new challenges to developers. Among these challenges, rich interactions are at the very core of all the new elements VR software designers need to consider when creating games or general applications. Guest Article by Enrique...

SDC 2014: Oculus Launches Mobile SDK for Android Development on Gear VR—Breaking

Oculus has just released their long awaited mobile SDK for Android development on Samsung's forthcoming Gear VR headset. Oculus Mobile SDK 0.4.0 Now Available for Download The 868MB Oculus Mobile SDK can be downloaded in the Oculus developer portal here. Oculus...

Ibex is a Virtual Reality Desktop Environment for the Oculus Rift and other VR Headsets [video]

The Oculus Rift developer kit might not have shipped yet, but that hasn't stopped some intrepid developers from working on exciting Rift projects like virtual reality desktop environments.  Hesham Wahba is a developer working on one such project, he calls...

HTC: Vive Pro to Launch With Updated Wand Controller, Not Valve’s ‘Knuckles’

HTC says that the new Vive Pro controllers, due out later this year, will be an updated version of the current Vive wands, rather than Valve's anticipated 'Knuckles' controllers. Upon unveiling the Vive Pro earlier this week, HTC demonstrated the new...

Rev VR Podcast – Episode 52: More GDC 2014 Coverage with Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce

In this episode, we continue our coverage of the big news coming from GDC 2014.  Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce report on the Oculus Rift Development Kit 2, Sony's Project Morpheus, and much more. The big news today was Oculus...
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