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‘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...
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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...

Oculus Audio SDK is Out of Beta, Includes Over 500 Free Sound Effects

Oculus' Audio SDK is now officially out of beta, giving developers a range of audio spatialization plugins for Unity, Unreal Engine, and audio middleware along with a free library of over 500 high-quality sound effects designed by Oculus specifically for use...

‘Convrge’ Announces Gear VR Beta with Cross-Platform YouTube Viewing

Convrge, the social VR platform known for hosting some of the first large-scale social meetups in virtual reality, has announced signups for a Gear VR beta, which will allow Samsung Gear VR users to mingle and also watch YouTube...

Presence Capital’s $10 Million AR/VR Fund Counts HTC’s Phil Chen Among Founders

Presence Capital today announced they've raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC's Phil Chen, the purported "founder" of the HTC Vive project at HTC. Presence...
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EVE: Valkyrie Gameplay – 10 Player Footage From the Latest Pre-Alpha

We now know that EVE:Valkyrie will be packed-in with every retail Oculus Rift once that VR headset launches in Q1 2016. So what can you expect from the game? We've got some new gameplay of the latest pre-alpha in...

EVE: Valkyrie Will Ship With Every Oculus Rift at Launch

CCP Games have announced that their made-for-VR online, multi-player space shooter EVE: Valkyrie, will ship free with every consumer Oculus Rift VR headset at launch, some time in Q1 2016. Today, CCP Games have announced that their first made-for-VR title...
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First Look at ‘Flickr VR’, High Quality User-Generated 360 Photos on Gear VR

Flickr has today released their Gear VR app that lets you browse through some its best user-generated 360 photos—all at an impressively high quality and delivered at a speed that's quicker than you can say 'Revontulikaari' (that's 'Northern Lights Arc' in...

Road to VR Named ‘Official Partner’ of VRDC 2016

Today we're proud to announce that Road to VR has been selected as the official partner of VRDC 2016, the VR-centric event complementing the forthcoming GDC 2016. As the destination of some of the most important reveals in the history...

Oculus Story Studio and HBO to Talk Immersive Storytelling at VRDC

At VRDC 2016, the VR conference counterpart to GDC, representatives from Oculus Story Studio and HBO will explore their approaches to immersive storytelling. VRDC runs from March 14–15 brings, and brings a VR specific focus alongside the broader GDC 2016...

Oculus Wants to “work with other hardware vendors,” Founder Reaffirms

Responding to criticisms about the potential for Oculus Rift game exclusivity, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey reaffirms that the company is interested in working with other hardware vendors through the Oculus platform. While the Oculus Rift may be the first desktop...

Sundance Announces Over 30 VR Experiences Coming to 2016 Festival

Sundance's New Frontier program, the yearly showcase supported by the Sundance Institute for works in new media, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Over 30 virtual reality installations will be present within New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival. The New Frontier...
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Inside ‘Ixian Gate’ – An Otherworldly, Surrealist Dream Come to Life

Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies...
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