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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...
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‘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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...

‘Racket: Nx’ for HTC Vive Gets Early Access Launch Date and Multiplayer

One Hamsa, developers of VR sports game Racket: Nx, announced that the Early Access version will arrive on Steam in late January 2017. This first version will also include "competitive" multiplayer and a new single player mode. The Racket Nx...

Oculus CEO Steps Down to Head PC Division, Founder Palmer Luckey to Shuffle Too

In a post to the company's official blog, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he'll be stepping down from the company's top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role. Brendan...

‘Raw Data’ Developer Survios Raises $50 Million, Now Top Funded VR Dev Studio

Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date. Survios'...

‘The Unspoken’ is Getting a Spectator Mode, New Classes, Arenas, and Play Modes in 2017

Insomniac Games have laid out their plans detailing content updates for their Oculus Touch launch title The Unspoken - and there's a lot of stuff on the way. Insomniac Games have once again provided one of the highlights of an...
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