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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ 3D Trailer and Photos Launch with WebVR Experience
Disney has officially released the 3D trailer to Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) along with a number of 3D photos through a new web-based VR experience. Star Wars fans looking to get the full 3D effect just need...
‘Convrge’ Reveals Y Combinator Fellowship Participation, Gear VR Beta Coming Saturday
Convrge, the social VR platform known for ease of use and low poly style, is officially opening their Gear VR beta on Saturday, Dec 19. To add to the news, the team behind Convrge has also revealed that they have recently...
Mozilla Launches A-Frame: VR-capable Websites Starting with One Line of Code
Mozilla today released A-Frame, an open source library for creating virtual reality web experiences without having to know the powerful (but complex) WebGL. Designed for web developers, A-Frame aims to make it easy to create high-performance and responsive virtual reality experiences...
$50M VR Venture Fund Announced by Japanese Mobile Game Giant COLOPL
COLOPL, mobile game giant in Japan, announced that they've opened a $50 million fund to invest in VR companies worldwide.
Guest Article By Shun Kubota
Shun is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of Mogura VR, the largest VR publication in Japan, aiming to...
First Look at Casino VR, Where Social VR Meets Texas Hold’em
Casino VR is an online multiplayer casino, currently hosting Texas hold’em poker games in a social VR environment. Created by a San Francisco based team, the free online casino is gearing up to not only offer more social casino games, but also a...
‘Star Citizen’ Alpha 2.0 Launches as Funding Passes $100M
Star Citizen, a hugely ambitious space epic, one of the first crowdfunding success stories to also pledge virtual reality support, has just launched its Alpha 2.0 release. Not only that, their total funding pot has now reached an astonishing...
Crytek and Oculus on How VR Made “The Climb” Possible
Crytek just announced its new virtual reality rock climbing game The Climb, coming exclusively to the Oculus Rift platform next year. We sat down with Crytek and Oculus to discuss the new title.
At a special event in California this...
Hands On: Crytek Unveils Oculus Rift Exclusive Title ‘The Climb’
Crytek is widely known for best-selling titles like Crysis and the Far Cry series, but today they’re announcing an exciting new VR-exclusive game called The Climb. When coupled with previously-announced VR games Robinson: The Journey and Dinosaur Island, it...
Oculus Founder Says Rift “Works fine” for Room-scale VR
Over the weekend, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey "Threw Oculus Sensors in opposing corners of this room for the hell of it," replicating a 'room-scale' VR setup like the HTC Vive. The result? "Works fine," he says.
The notion of 'room-scale'...
Pixvana Raises $6 Million for Cloud-based VR Video Processing and Delivery
Pixvana, a Seattle VR startup working to create a cloud-based processing and delivery platform for VR video, today announced a $6 million fundraise.
In a round led by Madrona Venture group with participation from Vulcan Capital and angel investors, Pixvana...
Developer nDreams Raises $3 Million More for VR Development and Publishing
UK based developer nDreams today announced the closure of a new $3 million (£2 million) investment, the second this year for the studio.
Bringing the studio's total fundraising in 2015 to $5.75 million, nDreams has raised an additional $3 million....
‘Sightline’ Dev Wants Your Feedback on Experimental ‘Holosphere’ Locomotion
Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the developer behind the outstanding Sightline: The Chair and World of Comenius projects has devised a new locomotion system for VR, and he needs your help to make it better.
The prolific and irritatingly talented VR developer Tomáš Mariančík, the...
New Apps and Games on Gear VR – December Week #2
Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We're rounding up the week's Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. This week: explore 360 photos with Flick VR, tease your mind with puzzler...
Facebook CEO Zuckerberg to Testify in Oculus Vs ZeniMax Lawsuit
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been ordered to give a deposition in the long-running dispute between virtual reality company Oculus and games publisher Zenimax media after the latter claimed its intellectual property was used to improve the former's Oculus...
Modbox is a Multiplayer Physics Wonderland for HTC Vive
Developers Alientrap have revealed details and a new trailer for their riotously fun looking physics playground title, Modbox, coming to SteamVR and HTC Vive next year.
There's something unusually compelling about games which utilise realistic physics upon which to build...




















