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Disney Invests in VR Arcade The VOID, Epic Games in 2017 Accelerator

The Walt Disney Company has announced participants in its 2017 incubator Disney Accelerator, a program intended for early and venture-backed tech startups working in media and entertainment. Among the 11 picked for the company's 2017 Accelerator is location-based VR arcade The Void and Unreal...

Video Gives Us a Peek Into the Future of How AR and VR Will Work Together

We're all waiting for the day when you can put on a singular, tether-free headset and experience all the 'R's that VR/AR/MR have to offer—and NormalVR, a "small but focused" group of passionate immersive media creators just gave us a peek...
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‘Echo Arena’ Extends Open Beta to Monday, July 17th

Echo Arena, the VR sports game from Ready at Dawn and Oculus Studios, went back into open beta last week. Although it was supposed to end yesterday, the developers are extending the access window so Oculus Rift owners can rocket...

Meet Bill Nye in VR & ‘TheWaveVR’ Concert, Two Virtual Events Worth Attending This Wednesday

This Wednesday, you can fill up your brain with knowledge in a unique opportunity to meet Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' in the digital flesh, and then melt your brain immediately afterwards at a VR concert, where crowds can interact...

VR Presence Researcher Finds Full Embodiment to be Key Component in Plausibility

Mel Slater's Theory of Presence includes two major components including the Place Illusion (the degree to which you're transported to another world), and the Plausibility Illusion (the degree to which you believe what's happening in that world is believable)....

Best VR Graphics Cards for Rift and Vive

Looking to get into virtual reality but need to beef up your gaming PC to handle it? Here's a quick cheat sheet on our current top picks for NVIDIA and AMD Radeon graphics cards suited for virtual reality. Among the myriad aspects...

Director of ‘The Hills Have Eyes’ is Making a Live-Action VR Horror Series, Releasing Halloween 2017

Veteran horror director Alexandre Aja, known for his work on The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Pirahana 3D (2010), and Horns (2013), is teaming up with Oculus and VR production studio Future Lighthouse to create a 360 live-action horror series...

Here’s 17 Pieces of Free Content You’ll Get With Oculus Rift + Touch

While Oculus had a robust day-one launch lineup of more than 50 titles back when Touch initially dropped in December of last year, owning an Oculus Rift + Touch grants you more titles than ever with unfettered access to at least...

‘Lone Echo’s’ Virtual Hands Are an Unexpected VR Innovation

Oculus had talked much about 'Hand Presence' with the launch of their Touch VR controllers last year, but few games have implemented the controllers in such a way that truly deliver on that promise. Combined with Touch, Lone Echo's impressive...

Vive Deluxe Audio Straps Back in Stock on Monday, Vive Pre Adapter Kit Available With Promo...

The Vive Deluxe Audio Strap is a more ergonomic strap with integrated headphones for the HTC Vive, and when it launched last month, it was only on sale for less than 48 hours until stocks ran dry in the EU and US. Now...
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Group of Men “Marry” Anime Characters in a VR Wedding Ceremony

Japan is an exceedingly normal place when it comes down to daily life, but for some reason the culture's social norms are—how should we put it—famously elastic. As reported by Vocativ, virtual reality played a big part in a recent marketing campaign for...

BBC’s VR Documentary ‘Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel’ Launches on Rift and Gear VR

The BBC's newest VR documentary, Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel, today launched on Gear VR and Oculus Rift. The 13-minute documentary takes you through one man's memories on a journey back to a defining moment in Irish history, the armed...

‘Fantastic Contraption’ Gets PSVR Release Date & Price – Exclusive Levels, Native 120 FPS Rendering

Fantastic Contraption, one of the first (and still one of the best) VR puzzle games out there, is finally coming to PSVR on July 11th and has been specially tuned for the platform, including unique levels not seen elsewhere...
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Google Announces ‘Blocks’, a VR App Like ‘Tilt Brush’ for Modeling 3D Objects

Google wants to make it easier for VR/AR app developers to create 3D objects with its new app revealed today called Blocks, a program designed to let you build assets for the immersive mediums from within the VR headset itself. Creating objects for...

Volkswagen Group is Building VR Apps to Help Employees Collaborate Across the Globe

Volkswagen Group, the multi-brand automotive company, has developed VR apps to make long-distance collaboration in production and logistics an easier task. Using the HTC Vive, the company has created what it calls the Volkswagen Digital Reality Hub Group, a VR platform...
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