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Sundance and Jaunt Announce Immersive Video Residency Program for VR Storytellers
Sundance Institute and Jaunt Studios announced recently a new collaborative cinematic virtual reality residency program that will allow story tellers to create unique VR-based works of art.
The program will allow four artists a residency period of six months to create short films, the...
Smart Vive Game Pits Tennis Players Against Themselves
SelfieTennis adds a simple VR twist to the more than 150 year old sport which allows players to practice in a way they could never do in the real world.
Virtual reality is arguably at its best when it takes the...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 111): Introducing ‘Bebylon Battle Royale’ With Ikrima Elhassan
The guys from Kite & Lightning have already been on the Rev VR Podcast twice, and now Ikrima is back again to introduce their exciting new VR game title, 'Bebylon Battle Royale'.
Rev VR Podcast: Episode 111
http://www.reverendkyle.com/media/com_podcastmanager/revvr_podcast_111.mp3
Before the podcast started,...
Google’s ‘Project Tango’ Competition Winners Showcase the Tech’s Potential
Google have announce the winners of their Project Tango innovators competition, designed to draw out original and impressive use cases for the computer vision, environment mapping technology.
Project Tango is a computer vision project by Google designed to use depth...
Kite & Lightning’s New VR Game Takes the Studio in a Radically Different Direction
Kite & Lightning is an LA-based creative studio that's released some of the most polished VR experiences we've seen throughout the development of the Oculus Rift. Now the studio is taking it's first step away from 'experience' and into...
Hands-On with the ‘Paranormal Activity’ VR Demo on the HTC Vive
Frank He shares his experiences of VRWERX's made-for-VR experience, a sneak peek at what you can expect in a full release coming to virtual reality headsets some time next year. The Paranormal Activity VR demo is an HTC Vive experience that...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #5
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.
We love racing games and we hope you do too. Here's a...
‘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...
‘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...
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...




















