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Oculus Connect: Facebook’s ‘New Techniques for Streaming 360 Video’ Liveblog @1pm PDT

This afternoon, Facebook is hosting a talk during Oculus Connect 2 to talk 360 degree video. Executive Editor Ben Lang is on the ground reporting live to cover the talk, entitled 'New Techniques for Streaming 360 Video' with Facebook software engineer David Pio. More content...

Watch Oculus Connect Keynote Live Commentary with TWiT TV Gang and Road to VR’s Ben Lang...

Respected and longstanding tech news media network TWiT.tv (This Week in Tech) has kept a watchful eye on virtual reality's growth over the years and tomorrow will live stream coverage of Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe's opening keynote address at the...

Facebook Launch 360 Video News Feed Powered by Oculus

Facebook has today announced an update to the social network's News Feed which will now include support for 360 video. Revealed back in March during Facebook's F8 developer's conference, the company has lined up a number of premium content providers to 'chum the...
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‘Allison Road’ is a ‘PT’ Inspired Blood Curdling Survival Horror VR Game, Kickstarter Now Live

Allison Road is a survival horror game currently in production by Lilith, a London based studio. If the trailer doesn't make you jump even a little, especially at the idea of playing in VR where even a well-made atmosphere can be...
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Watch the ‘Godfather of VR’ Ivan Sutherland Speak at the 2015 Proto Awards

The 2015 Proto Awards are over for another year, and as attendees awake from their after-party hangovers, footage from the event is emerging. One of the biggest highlight this year was the surprise appearance of Ivan Sutherland who accepted...

NVIDIA Bring Full GTX 980 GPU to Claimed “First Virtual Reality Notebooks”

NVIDIA have just announced that their bringing their desktop class GTX 980 GPU to portable computers. Not to be confused with the lower powered GTX 980M, found on many 'performance' laptops currently, this initiative supposedly offers identical performance to...
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Latest HTC Vive Promo Highlights Developer Talent

This latest promo video from HTC, highlights the enthusiasm the featured developers have for the Vive's SteamVR powered "room-scale VR". SteamVR developers Cloudhead Games (The Gallery: Call of the Starseed), Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator), Phaser Lock Ineractive (Final Approach)...

StarVR 210-Degree VR Headset to Receive Eye-tracking Support Courtesy of Tobii

Starbreeze, an "independent creator, publisher and distributor of high quality entertainment products" has announced that its StarVR headset will receive eye-tracking support as the result of a partnership between specialist in the field, Tobii. Starbreeze's StarVR headset made quite the splash...

Luckey Kills Gear VR Positional Tracking Rumors, “VR-grade inside-out tracking is not currently workable on mobile”

With Oculus' annual Connect developer conference now less than 24 hours away, the VR community at large is saturated with excited speculation about what might be revealed. One thing we won't be seeing at the event, says Oculus founder...

Join Road to VR for Daily Oculus Connect Recaps in AltspaceVR

Oculus' 2nd developer conference 'Connect' is almost here, starting on the 22nd September running for three days. For this year's event, Road to VR are taking to the social virtual reality social platform AltspaceVR to bring you the chance to enjoy...
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Preview: ‘Late Night Shop’ is a Nightmare Where Mannequins Come to Life

Late Night Shop is a first person 'mannequin evader' built by Plymouth, England based studio Total Monkery. The game, which is currently in pre-alpha, is excruciatingly close to a personal nightmare of store mannequins come to life. Much like the...
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This Star Trek Enterprise Virtual Tour is VR Ready and Absolutely Incredible

We've already seen a fair few fan-made virtual reality recreations of popular sci-fi franchise, but this latest recreation of Star Trek: The Next Generation's Enterprise-D starship will redefine your expectations from future efforts. It stands to reason that for people...
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Oculus Founder, Epic CTO, and More Appear in New Episodic VR Documentary by Epic Games

Having been involved with Oculus from early on, Epic Games, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, continues to expand its scope and interest in the burgeoning VR industry. Today the company has revealed the first episode in what...

Disney Leads $65 Million Investment in Jaunt’s VR Camera & Content Business

Jaunt, the company who has blazed an early trail in the capture and distribution of cinematic 360 videos, has announced yet another injection of funds, this a $65M round lead by entertainment giant Disney. The VR industry and all it's...

‘Elite: Dangerous’ to Get HTC Vive Support this Year, Play it on SteamVR at EGX 2015

Elite: Dangerous is getting support for Valve's flagship VR headset the HTC Vive later this year. What's more, if you're in the UK and heading to this week's EGX 2015 show, you'll have a chance to try it out. Elite:...
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