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Viorama Launches ‘Splash’ Beta at VR Launchpad, an App to Make 360 Video Sharing Easy

Viorama, a Berlin-based VR startup, today announced the closed beta launch of Splash, a VR video sharing platform that aims to make capturing and publishing 360 videos easy. Presented today during VR Launchpad, a virtual reality-focused startup showcase sponsored by SVVR and Road...

VRTGO 2015 Announces Unity as Headline Sponsor and Speaker

3D engine giant Unity have been announced as a headline sponsor for the upcoming UK virtual reality conference VRTGO on November 11th. The company will also speak at the event, explaining why they believe VR is the future of...
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Nuns, Archaeology and the HTC Vive: 2015’s Hottest Habit

Archaeologist and realities.io founder David Finsterwalder recently turned to virtual reality to demonstrate the fruits of his archaeological labor for those lucky enough to catch him at meetups in Ellwangen, Munich and Stuttgart. One unlikely visitor, a local Nun, turned...
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New ADR1FT Gameplay is Beautiful and Exhausting

Developer Three One Zero is bringing 'Astronaut in peril' adventure title ADR1FT to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Sony PlayStation VR next year. Here's some new gameplay courtesy of GamesHQMedia that raises the question: Are you mentally strong enough to...
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Exclusive: OTOY Shows Us Live-captured Light Fields in the HTC Vive

Rendering specialist Otoy has as of late taken to deep exploration of light fields as a medium for rendering high fidelity virtual reality scenes. While the company's computer-generated ray-traced light fields are great for viewing CGI envrioments, what happens...

NVIDIA to Show New VR-ready Laptop at VR Launchpad

VR Startup showcase VR Launchpad is now less than a day away and, in addition to a lively collection of hand-picked virtual reality pioneers and entrepreneurs in attendance, Nvidia will be showing off its latest, cutting-edge VR-ready laptop at the...

A Look at ‘Mobius’, the VR App that Raised Emergent VR $2.2 Million

Emergent is creating 'Mobius', an app and platform enabling users to capture and share VR experiences using existing smartphones. From a user standpoint, Mobius seems like a fairly typical 360 degree stitching app, like Photosynth or Photo Sphere (part of...

24 VR Startup Pitches, Launch Partner Presentations, Vive Demos and More, Tomorrow at VR Launchpad

VR Launchpad, the VR startup showcase, is upon us. Tomorrow the halls of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA will be filled with a diverse group of hand-picked VR startups alongside investors, media, and VR influencers. And it's...

Building A Better Mousetrap: A “Landmark” Dream Of The Ultimate Content Platform

Noah Nelson is back with another instalment of Immersion Point and this week digs into Landmark Entertainment's recent unveiling of their new 'Pavilion of Me' project, an immersive content platform designed to be the first step on the road...

Google’s Secretive ‘X’ Lab is Hiring a Virtual Reality Graphics Engineer for “Special Projects”

Google has been hiring full time virtual reality positions for some time, but for what appears to be the first time, the secretive Google is looking for full time VR talent in the form of a Computer Graphics...

Mark Zuckerberg on Oculus Toybox and Touch “The Craziest Oculus Experience”

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of social media giant Facebook, has become more and more vocal around the company's virtual and augmented reality plans of late. He took to the stage at Oculus' recent developer conference 'Connect' and now he's waxing...

Greenlight VR to Give ‘State of the VR Industry’ Presentation at VR Launchpad

Virtual reality market research firm Greenlight VR will share their latest data-driven insights into the consumer VR industry in a special presentation at VR Launchpad on October 20th. Howie Leibach, Sr. Research Analyst at Greenlight VR, will take to the...
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Man Proposes to Girlfriend in VR Theme Park ‘The VOID’

You might have already seen the video of the proposal where a man bends his knee, VR headset and all, to his future fiance in the Salt Lake City-based VR theme park, The VOID. If you're doubting the veracity...
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POLLEN Steam Greenlit in Record Time, Gets New Gameplay Trailer

Mindfield Games' immersive and eerie first person adventure POLLEN has been Steam 'greenlit' in just 36 hours described as "record breaking" time by the studio. So, to celebrate, they've launched a brand new gameplay trailer. We've been tracking the progress...

‘Voxelus’ Aims to Let Everyone to Build Their Own VR Content

With the huge success of Minecraft, a generation of gamers have grown up expecting to build and create in, as well as 'merely' play their games. Voxelus aims to tap into that creative spark with it's new Voxelus Creator...
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