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GTC 2016 Highlight: Oculus to Detail the Creation of ‘Quill’ VR Illustration Tool
At Sundance earlier this year, Oculus Story Studio revealed Quill, an in-house production tool that uses the company's Touch controllers to create VR illustrations. At GTC 2016 next week the studio will explore the technical challenges faced while creating the program.
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HTC Launches Vive App on iOS to Keep You Connected While in VR
It's been known since early 2016 that HTC planned to integrate bluetooth into the Vive headset to allow your phone to talk to the headset while you're in VR, but we didn't know what platforms or specific functionality would...
Valve Now Prompting Rift Owners to Install SteamVR
Although Valve has buddied up with HTC to create the Vive as SteamVR's flagship headset, the company has made it clear that they want SteamVR to be headset agnostic. Now Steam is identifying Rift users and prompting them to install...
VR Filmmakers Felix & Paul Nominated for 2 Daytime Emmys
Felix & Paul are among the most respected in the as yet young field of immersive filmmaking and now, the studio has been nominated for 2 daytime Emmy awards for their VR films “Inside Impact: East Africa” and “Inside the Box...
‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’ Launches April 5th, New Trailer Revealed
After 3 years in development, Cloudhead Games are finally set to bring the first instalment of their made-for-VR series The Gallery to the HTC Vive, with release set for April 5th. To celebrate, they've released a trailer which reveals...
You Can Access Oculus Home with DK2, Play Free and Paid Content Right Now
There's plenty of reasons to be excited for the Oculus Rift to arrive at your doorstep in the next few days (or months), but don't throw out that DK2 just yet, because there's still some life in the old...
Veteran VR Developers Share Their Early Oculus Rift Memories
We asked some developers who were early to join the VR bandwagon to share memories of their first experiences with the new wave of VR technology represented by the Oculus Rift DK1, what it meant to them and where their it...
Unboxing the New Oculus Rift Step-by-Step in Pictures
Three years after the Kickstarter funded Oculus Rift Developer Kit shipped, the consumer edition Rift is here and it's an appealingly packaged piece of kit. We unbox the final retail package and share the process with you, step by...
The First $100 You Should Spend on Oculus Rift Games
Oculus Rift pre-orders have been hitting doorsteps in limited quantities for the past few days (the first pre-order got hand-delivered from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey himself), but today marks the official launch of both the headset and the headset's software platform,...
Unboxing Video of Early Oculus Rift Prototype ‘PR4’ Revealed
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was of course tinkering and prototyping ideas for VR HMDs long before the 2012 Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift DK1 propelled VR back into the spotlight. One of the Oculus Rift DK1's closest descendent prototype,...
Flipflops in Alaska: Oculus Founder Delivers First Rift in Person
In a move entirely in keeping with the Oculus founders attitude to his company's supporters, he's travelled from sunny California to beautiful but chilly Alaska to hand deliver the first Oculus Rift pre-order.
If anyone else was confused after spotting...
GTC 2016 Highlight: Audi on The Future of Digital Retail
As Audi look to introduce virtual reality showrooms to their flagship stores this year, at GTC 2016 the company is presenting their philosophy behind "The Audi VR Experience" and sharing the challenges behind driving high visual fidelity VR experiences.
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Preview: ‘Moderat: Reminder’ is an Energetic VR Music Video set in a Beautiful Dystopia
Electronic music and dystopian worlds seem to go hand-in-hand these days, and with German electronic group Moderat releasing their third album in April, what better way to hype the release than with a VR experience of the record's first single, 'Reminder'?
Director Mate Steinforth and...
Oculus Touts New VR Rendering Feature, Valve Calls It an “Ideal Safety Net”
At GDC last week Oculus announced they were bringing a VR rendering function called Asynchronous Timewarp to Windows with version 1.3 of the Oculus PC SDK. The feature (abbreviated 'ATW') smoothes over otherwise uncomfortable stuttering which can happen when...
GTC 2016 Highlight: Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB on Powering Cinematic VR Experiences
Lucasfilm's experimental division ILMxLAB, set up to explore the use of immersive technology in storytelling, are heading to NVIDIA's GTC 2016 conference to share their experiences in bringing realistic virtual reality imagery to life for experiences
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