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Developer Pushes Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking to its Limits
Developers Stress Level Zero, the team behind the HTC Vive shooter Hover Junkers, are known for their VR experiments. But their latest investigation pushes the theoretical limits of Valve's Lighthouse tracking system, as featured in the HTC Vive.
Using just...
$30,000 in Cash and Prizes for Winner of Nvidia VR Showcase
NVIDIA's forthcoming GTC Conference runs April 4-7 and is going to be dominated by the topic of virtual reality – with a dedicated session track and VR Village with the latest and greatest demos. What's more, if you're an...
Steam Expands VR Game Listings With Supported Headsets, Play Area, and More
In preparation for the launch of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, Valve has enhanced the categorization of VR games listed on Steam.
Steam first added a basic 'VR Support' category all the way back at the end of 2013,...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 115): Creating Amazing 360 VR Videos in Hollywood with Sam Macaroni
In this episode of the Rev VR Podcast, I am joined by actor, YouTuber, and VR enthusiast, Sam Macaroni. We discuss his experiences in producing and directing films using 360 rigs. Sam is aiming to solve some of the common...
HordeZ Brings Doom-style Multi-player Coop Carnage to HTC Vive
Developer Niklas Persson is working on bringing the visceral, gore-soaked carnage of the Doom series to virtual reality with HordeZ, a multi-player coop shooter for the HTC Vive.
Whether you're willing to admit it or not, there's very little in...
vTime to Get Shareable Video and Google Cardboard Support Soon
vTime, a social VR platform for Gear VR, currently features rich and surprisingly well-optimized environments, but in a bid to capitalize on the boom of users soon to come to VR, vTime will soon be filling out their services to include shared...
Hands On: SMI’s Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight
SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a Berlin based company involved in creating eye tracking solutions across several industries, and has been doing so for the past 25 years. At MWC I sat down with Christian Villwock, director of OEM sales, to...
Samsung is Giving Away Far More Gear VR Units Than We Expected
After reading into the offer terms of Samsung's Gear VR giveaway for S7 pre-orders, which appeared to limit the number of free units to 300,000 in the US, Samsung has reached out to clarify that they're actually giving away...
‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...
More Than 300,000 Free Gear VR Headsets Will Come With US S7 Pre-orders, Starting Today (Updated)
This weekend Samsung announced they would be giving a free Gear VR headset to anyone pre-ordering the new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, with a "while supplies last" caveat. With pre-orders opening today, we've learned that Samsung will be...
ThingLink Raises $1.3 Million to Expand Media Annotation Platform to VR
Money continues to pour into the VR space, but not all of it is aimed at brand new ventures. Last week, the interactive media platform, ThingLink (founded in 2008), announced the closing of a $1.3M round of new funding...
Early SteamVR Performance Test Included Hidden Half-Life & Left 4 Dead Demo Code
Valve have just released a new tool to determine if your gaming PC is up to the task of running SteamVR experiences unlocked with the HTC Vive. But, buried in the code of the tool lies some interesting glimpses...
Movidius’ Dedicated Vision Processing Chip is Coming Soon to AR and VR Headsets
Movidius may be a little known name to the average consumer, but the company behind Google Project Tango's Myriad 1 vision processing chip is gearing up to release their new chip architecture in both VR and AR headset manufacturers, and a...
The Good, the Bad and the ‘Meh’ of LG 360 VR
Unveiled at MWC 2016, LG 360 VR has become the newest entry into the world of mobile headsets. Touted as a lightweight solution for on-the-go media consumption, the 360 VR gives us an interesting look at the future of VR headset...
Indie Board Game ‘Boss Monster’ coming to AltspaceVR
Boss Monster is an 8-bit-inspired indie board game from Brotherwise Games, and it's made virtual reality its new home. To welcome the tabletop game, AltspaceVR is hosting a Boss Monster Day celebration on February 23rd so you learn, play, and even win Boss Monster decks...



















