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HTC Vive Gets Major Price Cut, Now $600
Hot on the heels of the $400 Summer Rift sale, HTC is doing some of its own price slashing, bringing the complete Vive system down by $200 to a new permanently lowered price of $600.
VR's momentum continues as the...
James Cameron: ‘If I wasn’t making Avatar [sequels] I would be experimenting with VR’
James Camera is one of Hollywood's most celebrated directors, best known for Titanic, and Avatar, two of the world's top grossing films. He's also been an evangelist of technological innovation in cinema production. Despite past skepticism, Cameron's latest thoughts on VR...
‘Google Earth VR’ Lets You Experience the Total Solar Eclipse Right Now
Whether or not you're in the narrow band of 'solar eclipse totality' that's making its way across the continental United States on Monday, August 21st, Google Earth VR has seen a recent update that will let you experience the rare...
Kopin’s ‘Elf’ Headset is Impressively Compact, More Than 3x the Pixels of Rift and Vive
Kopin is touting a new prototype VR headset featuring their 4K OLED 'Lightning' microdisplay that they say is made specifically for VR. At nearly half the size of other headsets, and made from lightweight materials, the device feels featherlight...
‘Rec Room’ Update Adds New Quest, ‘Curse of the Crimson Cauldron’
The impressive content of popular social VR game Rec Room has once again expanded, with this week’s update introducing a brand new Quest titled ‘Curse of the Crimson Cauldron’. Developer Against Gravity believes their third co-op VR mini-adventure is...
This Impressive Short Film Was Drawn and Animated Entirely Inside of VR
As VR continues to grow, the tools of the medium continue to mature as well. In an impressive demonstration of what you can now create entirely from within VR, artist Nick Ladd has produced an impressive short film using Quill and...
Immersv Raises $10.5M Investment to Bring Ads into VR and Mobile 360 Video
Today, California-based interactive advertising platform Immersv announced the successful completion of a $10.5 million Series A round of financing, led by venture capital fund Rogers Venture Partners. This marks a positive step for the company, and another indication of...
‘Hover Junkers’ is Getting a Single Player Mode, Here’s the Teaser Trailer
Developer StressLevelZero is fulfilling their promise of adding a single player campaign to Hover Junkers—one of the Vive's earliest titles—arriving in the free 1.3 ‘Junkroad’ update. The team recently posted a short gameplay teaser, showing a distinctly less frantic...
One of the First Games Ever Shown on Vive Launches This Fall on Vive, Rift, and...
Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld, a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos...
Strategy Game ‘League of War: VR Arena’ Comes to PSVR This Fall
Independent developer MunkyFun is bringing League of War: VR Arena exclusively to Sony’s PSVR platform this Fall. Detailed in an entry on the official PlayStation Blog, the studio’s first VR game is described as being similar to ‘holographic chess’...
New Procedural Speech Animation From Disney Research Could Make for More Realistic VR Avatars
A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of human speech and uses it to automatically generate matching...
Horror & Gore in VR – Designing ‘Killing Floor: Incursion’
Killing Floor: Incursion is a horror game featuring lots of gore that is sure to evoke visceral reactions in players. I had a chance to play a demo at GDC 2017, and I can say that it's definitely an...
‘EVE: Valkyrie Warzone’ Update Adding Non-VR Mode and PS4/PC Cross Platform Play
One of the earliest big exclusive releases for VR, EVE: Valkyrie from CCP Games, continues to evolve and with the latest free expansion dubbed 'Warzone' the developers have opened its particular brand of slick online space shooter to players...
Navigating Paradox, Reality Bubbles, & Multiple Worldviews with VR
Dr. Marilyn Schlitz is a social anthropologist, consciousness researcher, and co-author of the books Consciousness & Healing and Living Deeply. Her anthropological work has been at the frontier of researching how different cultures use various indigenous practices to invoke...
Strider VR is an Intriguing New Omnidirectional Treadmill Solution
Strider VR uses a novel approach to omnidirectional treadmill design, using a rotatable ball array positioned above a traditional linear treadmill, combined with a Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The system is currently available as a development kit from German...
