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HTC Vive Pre Arrives With Developers, Twitter Rejoices
HTC's second iteration of their SteamVR hardware, the Vive Pre, was unveiled last month at CES with a number of ergonomic and technical enhancements. Well it looks like developers worldwide are taking to twitter to rejoice the receipt of...
NextVR Takes You to the Spectacular Opening Ceremony of 2016 Youth Olympic Games
Yesterday marked the start of the 2016 Youth Olympic winter games held in Norway. VR video company NextVR was on the scene to stream the opening ceremony and will be capturing highlights throughout the event.
With the Olympic tradition of...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #2
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
A VR experience inspired by 'The Shining'.
You're the new caretaker at The...
VR Pioneer Nonny de la Peña Discusses Empathy in VR
Chris Milk's TED talk last year popularized the idea that virtual reality has the potential to be the ultimate 'empathy machine.' Emblematic Group's Nonny de la Peña has been one of the original pioneers of exploring empathy in VR...
Secretary of Defense Peers into the Future at Navy VR Research Lab
The Secretary of Defense—second only to the President in control of the US military—recently stopped by the Navy's BEMR lab to see the latest work being done with VR, AR, and mixed reality technology.
Get ready for some fun acronyms:...
Casinos Go Virtual at the ICE 2016 Show
Kevin Williams continues his look at the wider VR landscape, and this time turns his attention to another, potentially enormous component of the virtual reality industry, VR gambling.
Kevin Williams
Kevin Williams has an extensive background in the development and sales...
Jaunt’s New ‘Zoolander 2’ 360 Video is a Farcical Romp
Zoolander is back. And while we're hoping Zoolander 2 isn't too terrible (that's optimism), Jaunt VR has released a new 360 video featuring Ben Stiller in his reprisal of the role of Derek Zoolander, the ridiculously good-looking model.
Zoolander Infinity gives you plenty to look at...
Here are the Winners of the Vision VR/AR Summit 2016 Awards
The judges at Vision Summit 2016 sorted through nearly 250 applicants to find the top three VR/AR creations spanning a number of categories. The award ceremony represents the best out of these three competing games, experiences, or 360 videos.
The Vision Summit...
These 21 VR Creations are Nominated for Tonight’s Vision VR/AR Summit Awards
Tonight's 21 finalists at the Vision AR/VR Awards are in, and the AR/VR cross-industry event in Hollywood, California will be honoring a diverse range of AR/VR content spanning 8 categories. The winners will be announced this evening ceremony starting at 8PM Pacific Time...
Unity Will Soon Let Developers Build Games Inside of VR Itself
Today at Vision Summit 2016 in Hollywood, Timoni West, principal designer at Unity Technologies, took the stage to show Unity's answer to the recently revealed Unreal Engine 4 VR editor.
West demonstrated Unity's newly revealed VR scene editor using the Oculus...
Unity is Making Big Improvements to Their VR Rendering Pipeline
Unity is making a huge push to position itself as the leading game engine in the virtual reality space today at its Vision Summit where they made a series of new partner announcements and previewed big improvements coming to...
Every Developer at Vision Summit is Taking Home an HTC Vive
Unity and Valve have jointly announced that in addition to bringing native support for SteamVR to Unity, Valve will be sending every developer home with an HTC Vive Pre development kit.
So now we know why Valve's Gabe Newell decided...
Oculus CTO Affirms Positional Tracking Priority for Gear VR
There's no doubt that what Oculus and Samsung managed to achieve with the mobile Gear VR headset is impressive, but one aspect, positional tracking, lags far behind desktop VR headsets. Oculus CTO John Carmack has affirmed his team's focus...
‘Oculus Ready’ PC and Headset Bundle Pre-orders Coming Feb 16th
Oculus today revealed more information on their Oculus Ready PC lineup, and announced that PC and headset bundle pre-orders will begin February 16th.
Oculus announced that starting February 16 at 8am PT (click here for local time), you'll be able...
Developing Coop VR Games with Remote Presence Using the HTC Vive and Kinect
After featuring their new experiment which used the HTC Vive and Microsoft Kinect to the physical image of 2 players into virtual worlds remotely, we wanted to know more about how developers Jasper Brekelmans and Jeroen de Mooij had pulled it...




















