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Smart Solution Makes Handheld VR Cinematography Easy with a Real Virtual Camera
VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone.
You may...
AxonVR is Building a Haptic Holodeck Powered by NVIDIA PhysX
AxonVR, the company currently working on a full-body haptic solution for VR, are on their way to bringing their technology to an ever-widening audience. Announced today via an official NVIDIA blogpost, AxonVR says that the company's fledgling haptic engine is actually built on...
Giroptic Launches $250 iO 360 Camera for iPhone
Giroptic, creator of the standalone '360cam', today announced the launch of the iO 360 camera which attaches to any Lightning-enabled iPhone or iPad.
The Giroptic iO 360 camera for iPhone/iPad is available starting today for $250. With two counter-facing lenses,...
Sensics is Building a VR Headset Specially Made for Arcades and Theme Parks
OSVR co-founder and long-time HMD maker Sensics is building a new 'Goggles for Public VR' headset which is designed for the unique needs of the Out-of-Home market.
While the same consumer-facing headsets that you'll find on a shelf at Best...
Oculus Launches ‘Quill’ Tutorial Series for Aspiring VR Artists
Oculus has created a series of tutorial videos for newcomers to Quill, the company's VR paint app. Available for free with every Touch purchase, Quill is an artistic creation tool designed for virtual reality and motion controllers.
The recent launch...
WordPress Blogging Platform Gets Support for Embedded VR Media
Virtual reality 360 degree photos and videos are now supported by WordPress.com. Powering over 26% of the web, WordPress is the world’s most popular online publishing platform.
A recent update on WordPress.com’s official blog confirmed that virtual reality media is...
‘Fantastic Contraption’ Puzzle-crafting Fun is Coming to PlayStation VR
One of our favorite VR games, Fantastic Contraption, is heading PlayStation VR. The gameplay makes great use of motion controllers to allow you to craft solutions to puzzling platforming problems.
Fantastic Contraption released originally as one of the launch bundle titles...
Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Debuts Virtual Reality Pictionary Segment with ‘Tilt Brush’
NBC's popular late night talk show The Tonight Show with host Jimmy Fallon has debuted a new segment called Virtual Reality Pictionary which uses the HTC Vive and Google's Tilt Brush VR paint app.
Jimmy Fallon is no stranger to VR. As far back...
Visualising UI Solutions for Our Mixed Reality Future
Augmented and Mixed Reality technologies are rapidly evolving, with consumer devices on the horizon. But how will people interact with their new digitally enhanced lives? Designer Ben Frankforter visualises several ideas he's had to help bring about the arrival...
Meta Publishes Meta 2 Dev Kit Unboxing, But 2016 Delivery Looks Unlikely
Meta made sizeable waves in the AR space in early 2016 with the announcement, demonstration, and pre-order launch of their Meta 2 development kit. The company has published an unboxing video of the system, but with just over two...
StubHub ‘Virtual View’ Lets You Preview Your Seats Before Buying Tickets
Ticket marketplace StubHub has launched a new 'Virtual View' feature which will let users know exactly what the view from their seats will look like before buying tickets.
If you've ever gone through the process of buying tickets to a...
HTC Vive Exec Makes Predictions for the Next 2 Years of Virtual Reality
HTC's China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we'll see VR in the next two years.
In a...
Third-party VR Client for Plex is in the Works to Stream Your Own Media Library in...
While much of the world moves to cloud streaming media libraries, there remains those of us that like to maintain our own personal local media library. Plex is a popular application for streaming your own library to other devices,...
Unity’s In-VR Game Editor Launches Tomorrow, This Is What It’s Like
Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality.
Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch...
VR Sports Training Company STRIVR Labs Scores $5 Million Investment
STRIVR Labs, a company focused on using VR for sports training, plans to use a new $5 million investment to expand the scope of its "experiential learning" platform.
According to a press release from the company, Strivr's $5 million Series A...




















