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Google I/O 2016 Opening Keynote Livestream @10:00AM PST

Google's annual developer and technology conference begins today, and for virtual reality fans there may be a few nice surprises in store, namely the much rumoured Android VR and Google's escalation in the immersive technology sector. The event kicks off...

‘Disney Movies VR’ Needs More Real VR Content and Less Blatant Brand Engagement

Virtual reality is growing at an enormous pace, and while we live in a time where more than a million monthly Gear VR users actively consume VR content, and dedicated VR shops pop up in China—it's no wonder that a...

What to Expect at I/O 2016: Android VR, the Missing All-in-one Headset, and the Fate of...

Google’s annual I/O conference kicks off tomorrow and we’re expecting VR to be a major part of the event. Here’s a look at everything we know and what we expect to see from Google’s virtual reality initiatives. Android N Bakes...

NVIDIA GTX 1080 Performance Review: Head to Head Against the 980 Ti

NVIDIA's next generation virtual reality GPU will soon be here, and it's all new. But how much more power is under the hood of the GTX 1080, the first graphics card based on the company's new Pascal architecture? We...
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NVIDIA Explains Pascal’s ‘Lens Matched Shading’ for More Efficient VR Rendering

The graphics pipeline in NVIDIA's new 'Pascal' GPUs has been rearchitected with features which can significantly enhance VR rendering performance. Here the company explains how Simultaneous Multi-projection and Lens Matched Shading work together to increase VR rendering efficiency. As the name...

Time Perception Research & Manipulating Time Dilation Effects in VR

At Oculus Connect 2015, SVVR's Karl Krantz told me that he accidentally spent 12 straight hours in VR and only thought that 3 hours had passed. I then started hearing a lot more time dilation stories from Owlchemy Labs'...

HTC Vive Orders Halted in U.S. “Due to Extraordinary Demand” [Update]

The HTC Vive has recently become listed as "out of stock" for U.S. orders. The company says it's no longer taking orders for the headset in the region "due to extraordinary demand." Update (5/14/16, 7:59 PM): HTC has confirmed via...
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AxonVR is Making a Haptic Exoskeleton Suit to Bring Your Body and Mind into VR

AxonVR, a Seattle-based startup fresh out of a 4 year stint in stealth mode, recently revealed a piece of hardware that seems to have been lifted directly from science fiction. Promising a full-body haptic suit and an exoskeleton walking platform, AxonVR is the...
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‘Negotiator’ is Like a High-Stakes Action Flick for VR, Kickstarter Now Live

Negotiator is a first-person strategy-based narrative that action fans will especially resonate with. Like something straight out of Patriot Games (1992) or ... well ... The Negotiator (1998), the game promises to deliver high-stakes missions that test your reasoning and manipulation skills, but more importantly,...
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‘Project Alice’ Tracks Real Objects to Enhance Multi-user VR Experiences

Noitom, a leading mo-cap company, are using their affinity with capturing reality by fusing it with virtual reality to create a multi-user mixed reality experience that allows users to interact in VR and others using real world objects. Noitom calls...

360fly Catches $40 Million in Series C Funding for Consumer-focused 360 Cameras

Thanks to the recent, headline-capturing releases of both the Vive and the Rift, investment money is continuing to pour into VR-based initiatives and complimentary hardware. An additional $40 million in Series C funding has gone into the coffers of...

VR Film Studio Felix & Paul Release ‘Nomads’ 360 Documentary Series

Felix and Paul Studios, creators of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning Inside the Box of Kurios and Inside Impact: East Africa, today launched Nomads—a new 360 video app that takes you inside the lives of the some of the world's far-flung nomadic tribes. Studio co-founders...

Gear VR Tops 1 Million Monthly Active Users

Oculus today announced a major milestone for Gear VR, the company's mobile VR headset made in collaboration with Samsung. Gear VR launched at the end of 2015 with an agreeable price of $99. Following an aggressive giveaway alongside pre-orders of...

Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR

At SVVR 2016, Google's Boris Smus took to the stage to present the latest advances in the WebVR platform that aims to bring virtual reality to the web. After allowing browsers to interact with VR headsets, another major challenge of...

Infinitus Prime is an Enterprise Focused VR Headset with 5k Horizontal Resolution

The latest virtual reality headset to join the race is a headset not bothering to court the consumer market at at all. The Infinitus Prime tVR headset packs two 1440p displays and the Czech company behind the project are...
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