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VRCHIVE is a 360 Image Sharing Platform for VR’s Renaissance
VRCHIVE is a “content distribution platform” for 360-degree images; in other words, it is a hosting service that allows users, be they professional photographers or VR laymen, to view and show monoscopic and stereoscopic spherical images.
Ka’i Kau founded VRCHIVE...
ABC News VR is Here, First Report from Syria is Powered by JauntVR
ABC News announced the release of a VR experience now available on Jaunt VR’s iOS and Android apps. The video follows ABC News’ Alexander Marquardt as he reports on curatorial efforts to preserve endangered antiquities in Damascus, Syria, the...
AltspaceVR Launches New SDK to Promote Social VR Application Development
AltspaceVR have had a hell of a week. As part of their ongoing 'Social Week' the company have made some big announcements, Gear VR support and cross platform capabilities with the addition of HTC Vive support. Now, the company...
Rothenberg Ventures Invests $1 Million Across 10 New VR Startups in ‘River’ Program
San Francisco based VC firm Rothenberg Ventures has announced the second class of their 'River' program, which includes $1 million of investment capital across 10 new VR startups. With this second class the firm has also expanded the scope of...
PlayStation VR is Coming to EGX 2015, Book Your Demo Slot from Friday 18th September
EGX, the UK's biggest gaming show is just around the corner - running for 4 days starting 24th September - and Sony's newly christened PlayStation VR will be there - but if you want to try it, make sure...
Sony Confirms New 90Hz Display Mode for PlayStation VR (formerly Morpheus)
Sony wowed us back in March when they announced a 120Hz display mode on the latest version of the PlayStation VR headset (formerly known as 'Project Morpheus'), the fastest available on any of the 'big three' consumer VR headsets soon to hit...
SpaceVR’s Second Kickstarter Raises More Than $40k in First Six Days
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1035872323/spacevr-step-into-space
SpaceVR, the Ryan Holmes-founded San Francisco startup that wants to build a 360-degree video platform for space footage, has re-launched its Kickstarter geared towards putting its VR camera Overview One on the Cupola module of the International Space Station...
‘The Ark’ 360 VR Documentary, the Story of the Planet’s Most Endangered Species
From the makers of the award-winning documentary Empire comes a 360 degree documentary that aims to put you face-to-face with the most endangered species on the planet: the northern white rhinoceros.
Called The Ark, documantarians Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill are bringing their collective...
5 Days at SIGGRAPH 2015, My Virtual Reality Highlights
Frank He digs into his journal to bring us his favourite moments from SIGGRAPH 2015, where virtual reality's presence was stronger than ever before (pun intended).
Now a second year UCLA undergraduate in a neuroscience program, Frank was born in...
‘The Vanishing of Ethan Carter’ VR Support Removed in Patch, Developer Teases Future VR DLC
Well, this has been a small roller-coaster. First the new UE4 Redux of acclaimed mystery adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, did have VR support out of the box, then the developer admitted this was a mistake and now...
Vote in NVIDIA’s ‘Tilt Brush’ Contest For Your Chance to Win a GTX 980 Ti
Six game industry artists converged on NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently to take part in an art contest using Google's VR painting program, Tilt Brush. You could win a NVIDIA's flagship VR-ready GPU, the GTX 980 Ti, just by voting for...
AltspaceVR Now Supports HTC Vive, Making for 3 VR Headsets in Cross Platform Space
AltspaceVR today announced that the social VR platform will be receiving official support for HTC Vive, the first consumer VR headset to integrate large-scale positional tracking.
After yesterday's announcement that the VR social space would soon be getting mobile support via...
AltspaceVR Goes Cross Platform with Gear VR Support, Closed Alpha Sign-Up is Live
AltspaceVR today announced a Samsung Gear VR version of the social VR platform, which will hypothetically allow anyone with the mobile VR headset and an internet connection to talk online face to face.
A dozen journalists from across two continents and...
6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition
NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...
Flickr Experimenting with VR Functionality, View Your 360 Photos Immersively
Photo storage and sharing giant Flickr is taking a step into the virtual soon if early plans for VR integration on their service reach fruition. According to Engadget, the site plans to introduce a VR button, which allows the...




















