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‘Sightline: The Chair’ Scoops Top Award at Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival

Developer Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius), developer of the excellent virtual reality experience Sightline: The Chair has been awarded the first ever Jury Prize at the Kaleidoscope VR Film festival in association with VRIDEO. A firm favourite of Road to VR's, Sightline:...

Hands-On with Epic Games’ ‘Bullet Train’ and Oculus Touch at SEA-VR

Guest writer Michael Glombicki attended SEA-VR, a Seattle based virtual reality event, yesterday where local developers Epic Games - creators of Unreal Engine - and went hands-on with their latest Oculus Touch enabled, first person, VR shooter 'Bullet Train'...

I Watched an NBA Game With Next VR and I Can’t Go Back to Normal TV

The NBA and Turner Sports partnered with NextVR's video streaming service to deliver the first NBA VR video livestream ever last night, and it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen in VR. Last night marks the opening...

Innovate UK Awards £210k to VR and AR Pioneers

There are a number of initiatives out there trying to encourage development into the huge potential represented by virtual and augmented reality's current renaissance. None we've seen are quite as wide in remit though as Innovate UK's national UK...
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‘Robinson: The Journey’ Coming to PlayStation VR, New Trailer Revealed

You may recall our extensive coverage of Crytek's followup to their VR tech demo Back to Dinosaur Island 1 and 2 - Robinson: The Journey, you may also recall it impressed us quite a bit. Well, the title has just...
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Fundraising Lessons No VR Startup Should Miss Shared by Altspace CEO Eric Romo

Eric Romo has been around the venture fundraising block over the last 10 years, not only as the founder of AltspaceVR, where he's raised some $16 million in venture capital, but also at former startup GreenVolts where he helped raise $120...

Crystal Rift’s 2 Year Journey, Psytec Games Talk Valve, Vive and Being a VR Launch Title

We caught up with Nick Pittom and John Hibbins of Psytec Games at EGX 2015 to dig a little deeper into the story behind the virtual reality retro-styled dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, set to release alongside the first wave...

New Untethered VR Headset ‘AuraVisor’ Kickstarter Passes 50% of Target in 24 Hours

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1714346163/auravisor-virtual-reality-head-mounted-computer# A UK firm is making a bid for the untethered virtual reality headset space with a new headset called AuraVisor, a self-contained immersive device which packs processing power and display into one headset. The device hit Kickstarter on Monday and...
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‘Earthlight’ Astronaut VR Sim Puts You on the ISS, NASA Collaborates on Realism

Opaque Media Group, a Melbourne-based VR studio, recently announced Earthlight, an upcoming first-person space simulator that places you in the flight suit of a current day astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS). If Earthlight's 360-degree teaser trailer is any indicator,...

Hands-on: Tactical Haptics’ Vive Demo is Further Proof That VR Needs More Than Rumble

While the latest generation of haptic feedback in controllers has come a long way since the days of N64's 'Rumble Pak' add-on, it's fundamentally based on the same principle: rumble. Whether it's the ERM motors of days passed, or linear...
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‘7 Nanocycles’ is an Addictive Flyer that Blasts You Through a Geometric Futurescape

7 Nanocycles is a demo made by Sweden-based indie developer Nicklas Nygren (aka 'Nifflas'), and is a deceptively addictive game concept that lobs you in your tiny spaceship through a world of floating geometric shapes. 7 Nanocycles is about keeping momentum while inside the...
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This ‘Paranormal Activity’ VR HTC Vive Reaction Video is Hilarious

As we reported recently, Paramount Pictures are currently rolling out demo booths to 15 AMC theaters across the US to demonstrate a snippet of the forthcoming virtual reality horror experience based on the Paranormal Activity horror franchise. Frank He...

A Farewell to Oculus Dev Kits, The DK2 is Now Sold Out

If you're looking to get your hands on an new Oculus Rift DK2, you should start trawling the online auctions for a mint-in-the-box headset, because the company's latest and final developer kit is now sold out. With the consumer Oculus Rift...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #4

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. Dreadhalls is a horror dungeon crawler that has you exploring the procedurally...

MPC and Sony Pictures Brings VFX Skills to ‘Goosebumps’ VR Experience

VFX specialists MPC have collaborated with Sony Pictures on building a virtual reality experience to promote the box office hit horror comedy film Goosebumps, as well as handling visual effects for the movie itself. MPC is a leading visual effects...
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