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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...
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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...
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‘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...

Boost VC Invests in 15 More VR Startups in Latest Accelerator Class

Boost VC, a startup accelerator based in San Mateo California, announced its seventh accelerator 'Tribe' with 15 new investments in VR companies, bringing its total VR portfolio to 34 startups. Boost VC, which invests in bitcoin and VR startups, has...

A Tour of Samsung’s New Gear 360 Camera in 9 Hi Res Images

At Unpacked in Barcelona today, Samsung announced the Gear 360, a highly portable, monoscopic 360, spherical camera designed for the everyday user. Samsung have pulled out all the stops on the Gear 360 and its design is one of the...
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