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VRDC 2016: Call for Submissions Now Open for GDC’s Dedicated VR Conference
The world's largest gathering of professional game developers, GDC, launches a dedicated virtual reality sister conference VRDC this year - and the call for submissions to the VR industry and community to present at the inaugural event is now open.
The annual...
Project ‘impacto’ is Designed to Let People Really Feel Virtual Reality
The lab of Human Computer Interaction at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute has developed impacto, a wearable, wireless device designed “to render the haptic sensation of hitting and being hit in virtual reality.”
Led by Professor Patrick Baudisch, the lab has...
Capturing Virtual Worlds: A Method for Taking 360 Virtual Photos and Videos
In this technical deep-dive, D 'eVRydayVR' Coetzee explores in detail the technical challenges preventing us from sharing our favourite VR experiences with others and the solutions available to overcome them.
D is a VR software developer and founder of the...
MATTER VR Signs with EEVO for Streaming VR Content Distribution
MatterVR, a VR content house founded by film industry vets, has announced a distribution deal with Eevo, a streaming platform for curated VR video.
MatterVR may be relatively new to the VR scene, but they bring with them decades of...
GoPro Reveals First 360 Degree Video Shot with New Odyssey VR Camera
GoPro's 'Odyssey' VR camera camera is on its way with early access being given to selected directors soon. And, to whet the creative appetites of filmmakers everywhere, GoPro have released this beautiful time-lapse 360 degree film featuring the sights...
CLOUDS is an Immersive VR Documentary Combining CG Data Visualization & Depth-mapped Interviews
Clouds is a documentary of a different sort. Using real-time interactive data visualizations set as the backdrop to over 10 hours of interviews with artists, hackers, and designers—all captured as weird and wonderful point clouds—there's no way you'll walk...
GoPro ‘Odyssey’ VR Camera Priced at $15,000, First Shipments to Select Creators in November
GoPro has today announced the final name and price for their forthcoming VR camera. The 'Odyssey', which will make use of Google's 'Jump' spherical video assembler, has been priced at $15,000. The company has opened a 'Limited Access Program'...
New ViveCraft Video Shows How Amazing ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon’ Would be in VR
ViveCraft, an experimental project from Facepunch Studios, has somewhat departed from the blocky Minecraft style and gone full Rollercoaster Tycoon in their newest video.
James King, a developer from Facepunch Studios, has taken a new experimental approach with the HTC Vive Minecraft clone....
‘Oculus Social SDK’ Slips Out in Connect 2 Schedule
Details of Oculus' second 'Connect' VR developer conference are now out and hints at a new 'Social SDK' which it's presumed is designed to help developers to create applications designed to being people together in VR.
There are many examples of disruptive...
Oculus CTO John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Connect
John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...
Big ‘Sightline: The Chair’ Update Brings Oculus SDK v0.7 and Unity 5 Upgrades
Sightline: The Chair is a virtual reality demo designed as a sort of showcase for the technology and one we're a big fan of. Now, developer Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík of has released the latest iteration and it's packed with technical...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – September #1
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.
RGBverse is a constant roller platform arcade with beautiful 3d graphics, non-stop...
Review: ‘InCell’ is a VR Racer That Puts You Inside the Microscopic World of a Cell
InCell is VR racing game that shrinks you down to play among the micro structures of a human cell. Visuals, gameplay, and the feel of the game are all on point, but some of the educational material seems a little whitewashed...
Elite: Dangerous ‘Close Quarters Combat’ Beta Released, VR Gameplay Footage Emerges
Elite: Dangerous has been a benchmark virtual reality application for a while now, but for those who love space combat and find the remaining gameplay mechanics of E:D a little laborious, a new, free expansion pack may well provide...
VorpX v0.9 to Bring ‘Direct Driver Mode’ and Enhanced DX11 3D Support
vorpX, the VR injection driver that lets you to play non VR games in VR, has announced that the latest version will be out this month and will include some major updates including reworked DX11 3D Geometry support and Oculus Runtime...



















