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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...
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...
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...
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...
‘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,...
‘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...









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