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Crytek’s David Bowman “We’re One of the Largest VR Teams on the Planet”

Revealing one of the most polished VR demos we've seen to date, CryEngine and Crysis developer Crytek were in fighting form at E3 in Los Angeles this year. We speak to Director of Production David Bowman who was bullish about...

‘VR Camp’ Coming to Burning Man Festival, Kickstarter Now Live

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1251129310/vr-camp-at-burning-man?ref=nav_search Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert that showcases the weird and wonderful, will be getting a VR Camp—an enclave of VR enthusiasts that should find themselves at home among the unbound imagination and psychedelia that often shows up...

YouTube Confirms Stereo 3D 360 Video Support Coming ‘Soon’

After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together. Google's tentative toe...
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‘Kat Walk’ Joins the VR Treadmill Race, Approaching $100,000 Goal on Kickstarter

Joining longstanding names Virtuix and Cyberith, Kat Walk hopes to be the newest VR treadmill option on the block. The system differentiates itself with an open design that suspends users from above instead of using a support ring around the...
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This Fan-made Star Wars VR Trailer Makes us Want an Official Title from the Franchise

Piloting vehicles, taking down infamous foes, and wielding lightsabers in one of sci-fi's most iconic franchises? The Star Wars universe offers an array of memorable and heroic experiences that we only wish we could live ourselves. VR technology could make...

Leap Motion Offering up $50,000 in 2015 3D Jam with Dedicated AR/VR Track

Leap Motion has announced that they'll be hosting their second 3D Jam this year, a developer competition to spur the creation of experiences making use of the company's motion input controller. Once again the company has laid out a $50,000...
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VFX Studio Hive Division Shows off Their Custom VR Camera Rig ‘Panoptikon’

Hive Division, an Italy based VFX studio, have teamed up with VR multimedia and marketing solutions provider InVRsion to create a very curious looking custom VR camera rig. With Google Jump, a 16-GoPro rig made in partnership with GoPro, and Jaunt's...
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‘Big Data VR Challenge’ $20,000 Grand Prize Winner Revealed by Epic Games and Wellcome Trust

Epic Games and Wellcome Trust revealed at Develop:Brighton that the winner of the Big Data VR Challenge—claiming a grand prize of $20,000—is LumaPie. LumaPie, a London based team made up of the creative studio Masters of Pie and 3D software consultancy firm Lumacode, was one of the six teams...

Oculus Connect 2 Registration and Talk Submissions Now Open

Oculus have just announced that registration for their second show dedicated to all things Oculus, 'Connect 2', is now open. Oculus' inaugural Connect show in September of last year was a resolutely and unapologetic developer focused event. Wary that content...

The HTC Vive is Coming to Gamescom 2015, Register Now to Try it

The HTC Vive is on the move. As part of the company's 'World Tour', they're bringing their Steam VR flagship VR headset to Cologne, Germany so that attendees of Gamescom can see what all the fuss is about. The HTC Vive,...
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‘Warcraft’ VR Movie Teaser Has You Soaring Over an Insanely Detailed Fantasy City

Leading up to the release of the Warcraft movie, Legendary Pictures has released an immersive movie trailer that gives you a 360 degree aerial view of Stormwind, one of the capital cities of the land of Azeroth. Created by developer...

Making Valve’s OpenVR Truly Inclusive for VR Headsets

With multiple proprietary VR systems on their way to retail, development fragmentation in the VR market has recently become a hot topic in the VR community. In this guest article, a veteran developer who goes by the name of...

2015 Proto Awards Submission Deadline Extended and Widened

This year's Proto Awards, the premiere awards events celebrating the VR industry, has had it's nomination submission date extended due to "tremendous" response. The 2015 Proto Awards are to be held at AVALON in Hollywood on September 22nd, to coincide...

Sixense STEM Edges Closer to Release

Sixense, the company behind the much beleaguered motion control system STEM, have released what they term 'positive' results from their latest round of EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility) testing. The STEM system from Razer Hydra creators Sixense, having been successfully Kickstarted back...
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This Full Video of Valve’s ‘Aperture Science’ VR Demo is Wonderful and Spoilerific

*** Warning: This Video Contains Spoilers *** Watch as an anonymous player works through Valve's Aperture Science demo, built to demonstrate the capabilities of Valve's new virtual reality technology - HTC Vive. At the PlayHubs game jam in London last week...
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