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360 Film ‘Dinner Party’ is a Symbolic Exploration of Race in America Wrapped in an Alien...

Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's widely known 1961 alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier film festival. Rather than using normal alien tropes, writers Laura Wexler & Charlotte Stoudt chose to...
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‘Sairento VR’ Exits Steam Early Access Today, Launches on Oculus Home

Sairento VR (2018), a VR ninja action game from indie developer Mixed Realms, ended its year-long stint in Steam Early Access today. The game, which features both single player and multiplayer modes, also launched on Oculus Home today. Sairento VR launches out...

HP to Launch Enterprise-focused Windows VR Headset in March

HP is bringing out an enterprise-focused version of its Windows 'Mixed Reality' VR headset in March. Called the 'Professional Edition', HP is pushing out basically the same headset hardware-wise save a few tweaks it considers necessary for VR-use in...

Open Source Game Engine ‘Godot Engine’ Gets VR Support

The full release of Godot 3.0 is now available, bringing VR support to the engine via a lightweight, 3DoF, ‘Cardboard-like’ solution, and OpenVR support through a GDNative-based plugin. The multiplatform Godot Engine is an open source, non-profit project available...

Noitom Releases Perception Neuron 2.0 Motion Capture System

Noitom, the Beijing-based company building affordable motion capture systems, announced the release of Perception Neuron 2.0, a hardware refresh of the company's original tracker which resulted from their 2014 Kickstarter campaign. The company also announced a new product ecosystem which...

Former Mozilla WebVR Pioneers Launch ‘Supermedium’ VR Browser

Supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Supermedium is a new, fully VR browser from the creators of VR web framework ‘A-Frame’ and part of the original Mozilla team behind the WebVR initiative. Available to download on Supermedium’s website, the...

Oculus Go Dev Kit Images Show the Headset to Be Near Consumer-ready

Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company's upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner. As first reported by TechRadar, the images appear...
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Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘IN DEATH’ Hits Early Access, PSVR Version in the Works

Sólfar Studios' new title IN DEATH, launches today in Early Access with a launch week discount. The "roguelike" bow-shooter makes use of procedural generation to create different experience every time you play, the developers say, while players come upon "monsters, mysteries...

Hands-on: VRHero “5K” Plus Aims for Visual Fidelity Above All Else

VRgineers is a Czech-based startup building a VR headset positioned strictly for the enterprise world. Compared to today's consumer VR headsets, it's undeniably huge and heavy, but a hands-on with their latest VRHero "5K" Plus shows that they're on a...

Inside Sundance Hit ‘SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime’ with Director Eliza McNitt

Sundance New Frontier had a solid line-up of VR experiences this year with a number of immersive storytelling innovations including SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime, which takes you on a journey into the center of a black hole. It's a...

HTC: Vive Pro is Targeted at Prosumers and Will Be “more expensive” Than Consumer Vive

VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka 'Skarred Ghost') got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn't answer the question on everyone's mind—"how much is Vive Pro going to cost?"—we...

VirZOOM Closes $5.5M Seed Funding to Develop Second Generation of VR Bike Kit

VirZOOM, makers of VR arcade exercise games and the VirZOOM Bike Controller, announced the successful closure of a $5.5 million seed funding round which the company says will help expand its commercial business worldwide with a second generation of its...

Stanford VR Lab Founder’s Academic Journey with VR, and new Book ‘Experience on Demand’

Jeremy Bailenson founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and his latest book Experience on Demand traces his academic journey through virtual reality. It's an intellectual memoir that focuses on his personal work in VR, and the...

Step Inside the Unabomber Investigation in New Interactive VR Experience

If you were alive in the '90s, chances are you've heard about Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, the American domestic terrorist that between 1978 and 1995 killed 3 people, and injured 23 others in a nationwide bombing campaign. Now, HTC Vive...

‘Sprint Vector’ Gets February 8th PC Launch Date, Feb 13th for PSVR

Having just celebrated a successful closed beta, which showed off some of the game's new mechanics and solo challenge mode, Survios now says its infectious footracer Sprint Vector is set to launch on HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on February 8th. PlayStation VR...
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