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‘Pavlov VR’ Update Includes Official Oculus Compatibility, Battle Royale Mode Slated for 2018
Pavlov VR, the Early Access VR shooter from indie developer davevillz, has a new badge under the 'VR Support' category on its Steam page which now indicates official support for Oculus Rift. Including a few minor bug fixes, the team added ...
‘Heart of the Emberstone: Coliseum’ Demo Offers a Free Taste of the Game’s Telekinetic Powers
Cloudhead Games, the studio known for pioneering several locomotion schemes during the creation of their well-received VR adventure series The Gallery, have just released a fresh demo for their latest game, The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone (2017). The demo is a sandbox version of the...
Magic Leap Reveals Music App Collaboration with Sigur Rós, New Images
Magic Leap today revealed a collaborative AR project with Icelandic band Sigur Rós, a musical experience which fills the player's surroundings with ethereal visuals and an interactive soundscape.
Secretive startup Magic Leap still hasn't officially revealed the AR headset that they're...
Houston Fire Department on VR’s Potential to Enhance Firefighter Training
Patrick Hagan is a technical specialist for the Houston Fire Department who had an opportunity to try out a VR demo by HTX Labs featuring an active shooter critical response training scenario. This demo inspired him to start collaborating...
Lytro is Positioning Its Light Field Tech as VR’s Master Capture Format
Lytro, a leading light-field company, is positioning its light-field capture and playback technology as the ideal format for immersive content. The company is building a toolset for capturing, rendering, and intermingling both synthetic and live-action light-field experiences which can...
‘Raw Data’ Studio Survios Announces ‘Electronauts’ for Jamming Out in VR
Electronauts is a music creation tool built within an “interactive sonic environment” where users can make, remix, and perform music, regardless of skill level. This is the third VR project from California-based developer Survios, creators of VR action games...
‘Nazi VR’ Documentary Shows How VR is Helping to Convict Nazi War Criminals
More than 6,000 German soldiers worked at the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz. Now on the cusp of 2018, the ones that are still alive are in their 90s and 100s, so there's very few left to actually pursue....
Vive Focus Hands-on Video Emerges from China
Vive Focus, the first consumer-available standalone headset with six-degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) positional tracking, has officially launched in China. While HTC isn't shipping Vive Focus outside the country, fresh reports of the headset's tracking capability seem to be promising.
Richard Lai, Engadget China's Senior...
‘YouTube VR’ Finally Comes to PC, Bringing the Platform’s 360 Videos to Vive, Rift, and Windows...
It's been a long while coming, but Google has finally launched a YouTube VR app on PC. The app is now available on Steam, officially for the Vive (but also functional with Rift and Windows VR headsets). Google expects YouTube...
NFL Debuts Season 2 of ‘NFL Immersed’ Immersive Football Documentary
Google and the NFL today announced season two of Immersed, the multi-episode docuseries following NFL players on and off the field. The first three episodes are available today on Daydream through YouTube VR and the NFL’s YouTube channel.
According to...
VR Short Film ‘Asteroids!’ from Baobab Studios Now Available
Interactive VR short film Asteroids!, the follow-up to Emmy award-winning VR short Invasion! (2016) is now available for Gear VR, Daydream, and Windows MR headsets. From the director of the Madagascar franchise, the full 11-minute cut continues the journey of...
‘Mindshow’ Update Lets You Collaborate on Creations with Your Steam Friends
Mindshow, the app that lets you make animated movies in VR, just pushed an update that now lets you collaborate with your Steam friends to create something truly unique.
The new 'VR Sharing' function lets you share and remix shows from inside the...
Tate Modern’s ‘Modigliani VR: The Ochre Atelier’ Experience Comes to Viveport
HTC has now published the Modigliani VR experience, The Ochre Atelier, on Viveport. As a focal point at the Modigliani exhibition currently still in rotation at Tate Modern in London, the experience takes you to the early 20th century Parisian studio of famous painter and sculptor...
Oculus Story Studio’s ‘Wolves in the Walls VR’ to Premier at Sundance
Wolves in the Walls, the terrifying children's book from Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, is getting its own VR experience. Created as one of the last projects of the now-defunct Oculus Story Studio, Wolves in the Walls VR is making its debut at...
The Best Holiday Windows VR Deal Yet, Today Only: Windows VR Headsets Starting at $200
Microsoft is cutting prices even lower than their Black Friday and Cyber Monday deal with their one day-only sale that reduces the price of two of their least expensive headsets, Acer and Lenovo, to just $200.
Besides coming from the big...



















