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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...
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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...

‘Everspace’ Blasts Through Kickstarter Goal, Raises Almost Half a Million Dollars

The extremely promising looking space combat shooter Everspace, focused on accessibility and adrenaline rather than space trading, has completed its Kickstarter campaign, raising a whopping 420,252 EUR ($477,139) of it's original 225,000 EUR target. Everspace is a space shooter which...

‘Waves of Grace’ is the Powerful 360 Film of an Ebola Survivor from the UN and...

To help raise awareness and show the impact of Ebola in that area, the United Nations and Vice Media teamed up with a virtual reality production company, VRSE, to tell the story of one survivor using 360 degree immersive...

Samsung Galaxy S7 May Include Depth Camera, Useful for Gear VR SLAM Tracking

As we approach Oculus' 2nd developer conference, Connect 2, we're expecting to learn much more about the next generation of mobile VR hardware the that might emerge from the Samsung Oculus partnership. The latest specification leak for Samsung's forthcoming...

Dreadhalls Demo Update Brings Oculus Runtime v0.7 Support

One of the most elegantly terrifying games available on the Oculus Rift, one that debuted in Oculus and IndieCade's VR Jam back in 2013, has been brought back up to date - receiving Oculus Runtime 0.7 support. Dreadhalls is a...

NewRetroArcade v4.0 Out Now, Brings Oculus 0.7 Runtime, Re-mappable Controls

Version 4.0 of the ’80s inspired NewRetroArcade is out, now offering an even wider selection of ’80s and ’90s emulated titles. The developers, DigitalCyberCherries, have added some major features in this release including remappable controller buttons and support for Oculus'...
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