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3 Impressive WebVR Examples Worth Checking Out With Firefox’s New Support for Vive and Rift
Now that the latest release of Firefox supports WebVR on the Vive and Rift by default, you may be wondering what you can do with it. Here's three examples worth checking out.
It's still early days for WebVR; the capabilities,...
VR Puzzler ‘Light Tracer’ Coming to PSVR Next Month
Oasis Games have announced a September release for whimsical VR puzzle-platformer Light Tracer, in a recent post on the PlayStation Blog. The game involves guiding the Princess up a giant tower from the perspective of a ‘godlike entity’, solving...
Today’s Firefox Update Brings Rift and Vive WebVR Support to Everyone
Today is a big day for WebVR as the latest public update to Firefox adds support for the Rift and Vive, making it easy to step into VR experiences that are served directly from the web.
WebVR is a in-development...
The Gift Economy Dynamics of ‘Anyland’ & Social VR Anecdotes
Anyland is a social VR experience focusing on worldbuilding and avatar creation tools that allow you to create interactive experiences while in VR. They've also implemented an open sharing feature that makes it easy to collect objects from the...
Oculus’ New ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’ Brings Big Performance Gains to Certain VR Scenes
Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech 'Stereo Shading Reprojection', and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. The company says the new VR rendering technique...
Reflecting on AltspaceVR’s Technical Achievements & Social VR Lessons Learned
AltspaceVR held its final official Good Bye gathering on Thursday, August 3rd after announcing last week that they had run out of money and their investors decided to not invest any more. News of the social VR platform's closing rippled throughout...
New Fresnel Lens From Wearality is Thinner Than a Quarter
Nearly two years ago, Wearality created a unique Fresnel lens for VR headsets offering a claimed 150 degree field of view. The company successfully funded a VR viewer featuring the lens called Wearality Sky through Kickstarter. The company recently...
VR Design Tool ‘Gravity Sketch’ Launches in Early Access
VR-optimised 3D creation tool Gravity Sketch is now available on Steam Early Access. Developed by a group of design engineers at the Royal College of Art, the software is ‘for everyone’, but its feature set has particular relevance to...
‘The Lost Bear’ Side-scrolling Platformer Coming Exclusively to PSVR This Month
Odd Bug Studio’s debut title The Lost Bear arrives exclusively on PlayStation VR this month. Described as a “2D cinematic platformer”, the player controls Walnut, a young girl who sets out to save her teddy bear from the Toy...
VR-based Treatment for Vision Disorders Shows Positive Results in Peer-reviewed Study
Vivid Vision offers a virtual reality based treatment for lazy eye disorders. A new study published in the peer-reviewed BioMed Journal of Ophthalmology finds positive preliminary results which "indicate the potential for a new treatment for adulthood amblyopia."
Founded by...
Co-op VR FPS ‘Killing Floor: Incursion’ Launches on August 16th, Save 10% on Pre-order
Oculus exclusive Killing Floor: Incursion is due to launch on August 16th. The game is now available for pre-order on the Oculus store for $36, 10% off the $40 launch price.
Killing Floor: Incursion is a co-op VR FPS from Tripwire Interactive that...
Researchers Induce Artificial Movement Sensation in VR Using Four-Pole Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation
Shown as part of the Emerging Technologies installations at SIGGRAPH 2017 this week, the GVS RIDE experience demonstrates the effects of four-pole galvanic vestibular stimulation combined with a VR headset. The technology is pitched as a potential alternative to a motion...
Inception Raises $15 Million Series A Funding Led By EU Media Conglomerate RTL Group
Inception’s ambitions to become the ‘Netflix of VR’ have just received a major boost, with the Tel Aviv-based company closing a $15 million Series A funding round led by media and broadcast giant RTL Group. Launched in October 2016,...
‘Through You’ – Dance as Embodied Communication in VR & Pushing the Boundaries of Editing in...
Dance is all about bodies moving through space, and it's something that shows the strength of the VR medium since there's something that's lost when it's translated onto a 2D screen. Lily Baldwin observed how audience members heard the...
Researchers Showcase Impressive New Bar for Real-time Digital Human Rendering in VR
A broad team of graphics researchers, universities, and technology companies are showcasing the latest research into digital human representation in VR at SIGGRAPH 2017. Advanced capture, rigging, and rendering techniques have resulted in an impressive new bar for the...
