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‘Project Ghost’ Lets You Bend Time Whilst Dual Wielding Lightsabers
A new early prototype game for the HTC Vive is aiming to bring your time-shifting, lightsaber wielding dreams to life with Project Ghost, a new game, early in production, which mashes together so many individually cool ideas, some of...
Preview: ‘Buzludzha VR’ Gives New Life to an Abandoned Soviet Megastructure
The imposing Buzludzha Monument in central Bulgaria once invoked infallible power, a power that once rested with the nation's Communist Party. The brutalist megastructure, opened to the public in 1981 and later abandoned after the lifting of the iron curtain, now lies in ruins, with...
AltspaceVR Debuts Key Tech to Massively Scale Virtual Events
AltspaceVR has today announced FrontRow, a new feature of the social VR platform which opens the door for mass-attended events in virtual reality.
Available on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Samsung Gear VR, AltspaceVR has made it easy to jump...
Netflix Prototypes Retro Room-scale Streaming Video Store
Netflix engineers working on ways to bring their video streaming service into the immersive realm have released this video of their prototype room-scale virtual reality reality experience modelled on an 80's VHS video rental store. Yes, it is as odd...
Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma
Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...
Review: ‘Please, Don’t Touch Anything’ is a ‘Must Have’ VR Puzzle Game
Please, Don't Touch Anything (PDTA), a puzzle game from BulkyPix, has recently released a new VR adaptation of the year-old 2D title. Now built from the ground up in 3D for Oculus Rift and Gear VR headsets, PDTA offers the most immersive button-pushing simulator...
AWE 2016 Brings the Best of AR & VR to Santa Clara, 45% Off for Road...
The Augmented World Expo, one of the longest running immersive technology events, is back for a 7th year and it's bigger than ever. With focus on augmented reality, virtual reality and wearable technologies, the expo is packing in 4000...
Google’s (Day)dream: ‘Hundreds of Millions of Users in a Couple of Years’
At I/O 2016 this week, Google laid out its ambitious goals for Daydream, the company's new platform for native, high performance virtual reality experiences on Android.
Daydream is Google's newly announced Android VR ecosystem—encompassing specialized phones, headsets, and apps—which promises to...
Start Making Google Daydream VR Apps Today with a DIY Dev Kit
This week Google announced Daydream, the company's initiative for high-end mobile virtual reality. While Google didn't reveal a dedicated dev kit, the company says developers can cobble together their own using the Nexus 6P smartphone, Cardboard, and a spare phone.
Google says...
IMAX to Use StarVR 210 Degree FOV Headset for Premium VR Film Experiences
Starbreeze, the company behind the 210 degree FOV VR headset StarVR are to work with large-scale cinema specialists IMAX to create "premium location-based VR" experiences "worthy of the IMAX brand".
It seems IMAX, the brand known for their huge, immersive cinema...
Google is Working with IMAX on Cinema Grade VR Cameras
Google Jump, a 360 camera system and processing software platform announced at last year's Google I/O, is adding IMAX and Yi Technology to its roster of camera manufacturers.
Clay Bavor, Google's VR team lead, took the stage during the I/O 2016...
‘Portal Stories: VR’ Brings 10 Made-for-VR Puzzles to the World of Aperture Science
When I loaded up Portal Stories: VR I was greeted with familiar sights and sounds from the Portal universe. A disembodied voice told that I was about to take part in an Aperture Science Virtual Reality Experiment, words I was...
Epic Announce Android Daydream VR Support in Unreal Engine, Available Today
Epic Games' Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google's I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what's more is that it's available right now.
Epic Games have been a constant...
Google to Livestream Two Daydream VR Sessions Starting @10:00 AM PST
Google's newly announced Daydream VR platform, an initiative that's poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn't exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make...
Samsung, HTC, LG, and More Bringing ‘Daydream Ready’ VR Phones to Android
Today Google announced the next major step in bringing virtual reality to Android. They're calling it 'Daydream' and it's the company's label for high performance virtual reality. Soon, 'Daydream Ready' phones from leading manufacturers will enable these high quality...




















