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Palmer Luckey: “I’m still working in the VR industry on some very exciting things”
Appearing this week on the stage of Oculus competitor HTC at the Tokyo Game Show, Oculus founder emeritus Palmer Luckey affirmed that he's continuing to work on projects within the VR industry.
Luckey's appearance on the HTC Vive stage during TGS...
Advancing Immersive Computing with Intel’s Virtual Reality Center for Excellence
Intel is investing in the future of immersive computing through their Virtual Reality Center for Excellence. They're pushing the boundaries of high-end of VR gaming experiences, pursuing initiatives to help VR reach critical mass, and exploring how RealSense depth...
Bethesda Talks ‘Fallout 4 VR’, New Gameplay Footage Revealed
The Fallout 4 VR hype machine is slowly ramping up to full speed, as the company today released a talk with the game's Lead Producer Andrew Scharf about some of the finer points of retrofitting the entire game for VR headsets.
"Feeling like you’re...
Opera Browser Adds 360 Video Player for VR Headsets, Plans Full WebVR Support
For OpenVR-compatible headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, watching streaming 360 video from from your browser is now as simple as clicking a button and putting on your headset. This is all thanks to Opera's latest version of its developer...
Now Available – Light-field Captured ‘Hallelujah’ is a Stunning Mix of Volumetric Film and Audio
Hallelujah is a new experience by VR film studio Within that's captured using Lytro's latest Immerge light-field camera which captures volumetric footage that makes for a much more immersive experience than traditional 360 video. Hallelujah is a performance of Leonard...
HTC Leads $4M Series A Investment in Social VR Platform ‘VRChat’
VRChat, one of the earliest social VR apps, announced that they've completed a $4 million Series A investment round lead by HTC's Vive group. Joining HTC are venture capital firms Brightstone VC, GVR Fund and Rothenberg Ventures.
The Series A funding round...
Intel Scraps Plans to Launch Project Alloy Reference Headset, Pursuing Other VR R&D
Intel is scrapping plans to launch the Project Alloy headset as an open reference design, citing lack of partner interest.
Intel revealed Project Alloy, an x86-based standalone VR headset, back in mid-2016, saying at the time that they'd be launching...
‘Facebook Spaces’ Gets Major Functionality Boost Now With PC Desktop Sharing
Facebook Spaces, the company's experiment into social VR, launched to much fanfare back in April. Following a string of updates, the app now supports PC desktop sharing, allowing friends to stream any content from their computer, opening up a...
2013-era Crowdfunded VR Puzzle-Adventure ‘XING: The Land Beyond’ Finally Launches Today
XING: The Land Beyond (2017), a puzzle-adventure from White Lotus Interactive, is set to ship today—a good 4 years after they initially launched their Kickstarter and successfully stretch-goaled their way to include Oculus Rift support.
Of course, back then the team was targeting the...
8 Cool AR Apps to Try Now That Apple iOS 11 is Here
Apple's newest iteration of the iOS mobile operating system is here, and with it comes the ability to turn your iOS 11 compatible device into an honest-to-goodness augmented reality viewer. Thanks to a few months of lead time with...
Promising Intel Proof of Concept Shows SteamVR Game Streaming to Smartphone Over WiFi
Intel is exploring an interesting approach to making VR less expensive and more accessible. The company's so-called 'Portal Ridge' system streams SteamVR content to a smartphone-based headset over WiFi while using the Vive Tracker and controllers for tracking of...
Google Buys HTC Talent & IP for $1.1 Billion, Cash to Support HTC’s Focus on Smartphones,...
Following recent reports of an impending deal with Google to save HTC's struggling business, news broke late Wednesday evening that the companies reached an agreement resulting in a $1.1 billion cash infusion for HTC.
Update (9/21/17): Google's $1.1 billion will buy...
‘OpenVR Recorder’ is a Powerful Tool for Capturing Tracking and Input Data
Jasper Brekelmans, a Netherlands-based 3D tech artist, has recently released a motion capture tool offering an easy way to record OpenVR tracking data from headsets, motion controllers and Vive Trackers for both Vive and Rift setups. Called OpenVR Recorder, the data...
Behind the Scenes of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-winning White House VR Documentary
The White House VR documentary People's House by Felix & Paul Studios won a Emmy for the outstanding original interactive, and I had a chance to talk with Paul Raphael of Felix & Paul Studios about the challenges of...
Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’
The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...


















