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Oculus Mobile VR Jam Winners Announced, Taking Home $1 Million in Prizes
Oculus today announced the winners of the Mobile VR Jam, a contest that saw some of the most innovative games and experiences targeted at the Gear VR platform.
Divided among two tracks—Games and Apps/Experiences—more than 300 entries made exclusively for the...
Google Tango Dev Contest Includes AR/VR Track and $95,000 in Prize Money
Project Tango is Google's computer vision initiative that seeks to equip consumer devices with consistent and useful environmental tracking capabilities. Google thinks that the platform could be useful for virtual and augmented reality too, and is encouraging developers to start experimenting by...
VR Stunt Flyer ‘Faceted Flight’ Preview, Kickstarter Now Live and Demo Available
Faceted Flight is a crowdfunded VR Stunt Flyer that's packed with style, offering a gameplay experience that recalls classic 16-bit titles such as Sonic the Hedgehog (1991), Star Fox (1993), and Pilotwings (1991). The game's Kickstarter campaign just went live, so we take a...
Oculus Reveals Second Made-for-VR Film – ‘Henry’, the Hedgehog Who Just Wants a Hug
Oculus has revealed their second VR film project from Story Studio, the company's internal CG film studio. The VR film is called Henry and is based on a lovable but folly-prone cartoon hedgehog.
As a hedgehog, Henry is anything but huggable, even if that's the...
VR Developer Reload Studios Picks up $2 Million Investment
Reload Studios, a VR development studio formed by former Call of Duty developers, has announced that they've received a $2 million investment from World Innovation Lab.
World Innovation Lab is a tech investment firm based in Silicon Valley and Tokyo....
Behind-the-scenes With Google’s New Live-action 360 Short Film ‘Help’
During ATAP's presentation at this year's Google I/O, the in-house skunkworks debuted HELP, a new live-action 360 monster movie made in collaboration with The Mill and Star Trek 3 director Justin Lin.
Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) has recently debuted HELP, a made-for-VR 360...
nVidia Launches GTX 980ti GPU Targeting Virtual Reality and 4k Gaming
nVidia has launched the first salvo in the impending VR GPU wars as it launched it's newest graphics card, the GTX 980ti. The message from the GPU giant is clear: if you're a gamer interested in either 4k or...
VRLA Summer Expo and 2015 Proto Awards Dates Announced
The Virtual Reality Foundation have announced dates for both the VRLA Summer Expo and the 2015 Proto Awards today. We take a look at what to expect from the events.
The Virtual Reality Foundation, a non-profit consortium comprising professionals from the...
nVidia Announces ‘Gameworks VR’ to Launch Alongside New GTX 980ti GPU
nVidia, who has been making noises on the virtual reality front for a while now, has announced that they're to launch 'Gameworks VR' to "help VR headset and game developers build incredible experiences on GeForce GPUs".
nVidia has been talking up...
Google’s ‘Project Soli’ Radar Hand Tracking and How VR and AR Might Use it
Google's I/O 2015 conference last week was packed with technology with potential uses with VR or AR. The most unusual among them, Project Soli, uses radar technology to detect minute movements and gestures and translate them for input.
Google ATAP (Advanced...
Google Wants to Use Tango Tech for VR, But Admits Current Dev Kits Aren’t Optimized
Project Tango, Google's computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to...
Google’s New ‘Cardboard Design Lab’ App Uses VR to Teach You About VR Design
Google has just released the Cardboard Design Lab app for Android which puts users inside of a VR environment and teaches them fundamentals of VR design. The app demonstrates each of its lessons quickly in impressively effective ways.
As Google further...
200 Companies Now Hiring – A Look at the Growing Virtual Reality Jobs Market
We all know that the VR market is heating up, but what is staffing like at the companies that are creating these devices and applications? Whether or not companies are able to find the talent they need may have...
Google I/O 2015 VR Itinerary Day 2 – Virtual Reality Sessions Livestreamed
Today is the second and last day of Google I/O 2015 and we've spotted three livestreamed sessions that VR developers and enthusiasts might enjoy. Catch the livestream along with us right here.
Above is Google’s official I/O 2015 livestream player...
Video Preview: Manus Machina’s Wireless VR Glove Looks Promising, Headed to E3 2015
Manus Machina, a tech startup based in the Netherlands, have released a video preview of what they're calling 'the first consumer VR glove' ahead of its appearance at E3 2015 where the device will quite literally be on hand...



















