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Smart Solution Makes Handheld VR Cinematography Easy with a Real Virtual Camera
VFX professional Kert Gartner has been pioneering new ways to make capturing virtual worlds as compelling as filming in the real world. His latest technique makes a real virtual camera out of an extra Vive controller and a smartphone.
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Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline
Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company's first virtual reality hardware product. As a smartphone clip-in headset, the View is a relatively simple device which leaves the bulk of the work up to the host smartphone....
VR RTS ‘Cosmic Trip’ to Leave Early Access with New “Fully-featured” Strategy Mode
First-person real-time strategy VR game Cosmic Trip will leave Early Access on May 24th. Developer Funktronic Labs is readying the ‘fully-featured’ RTS mode for the v1.0 launch, along with a digital Deluxe Edition which adds an artbook and soundtrack.
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HTC Vive Support and “New Morpheus Features” Coming to Unreal Engine 4
According to Epic's Unreal Engine roadmap, the company is soon to add support for Valve's SteamVR / HTC Vive platform as well as new features for Sony's Morpheus VR headset.
With strong existing support for both the Oculus Rift and...
Microsoft ‘Holographic Shell’ Aims to Immerse You in Windows by 2017
At Intel's Developer Forum this week, Microsoft has announced that it's to bring its 'Holographic Shell' to Windows operating systems everywhere by 2017 with an aim to provide "one platform for VR, AR and MR."
For some perhaps, there's nothing...
Oculus Slash ‘Feral Rites’ Price, Gift 6 Free Games to Existing Owners
In an interesting twist to Insomniac's VR brawler Feral Rites' recent release, Oculus have slashed the price of the game to $29.99 from $49.99 stating the price was "too high".
In an unusual move, Oculus have seemingly taken on board...
‘Oculus Cinema’ Getting Online Multiplayer and New Social Features, Coming to the Consumer Rift
Oculus Cinema is a first-party VR application that recreates the experience of having your own personal cinema or leather chair adorned home theater. And while it's great to feel like you're sitting in front of a massive screen, what...
Hands-on: NVIDIA Launches GTX 1060 and Benchmarks Against AMD’s RX 480
Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's GTX 1060, the least expensive of the company's 10-series GPUs so far revealed. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1060 matches the performance of the former flagship card, the GTX 980, but at only...
New Oculus Render Tech Cuts Entry Level VR PC Costs to $499
Keeping games chugging along at 90 frames per second (fps) while rendering modern graphics is a tall order, which is why building a VR-ready computer is pretty much impossible with less than $600. Well, now the minimum spec—at least...
AMD Creates VR Gaming Rig of the Future with ‘Project Quantum’
AMD recently unveiled a supercharged, small form factor PC at E3 this week, a futuristic-looking gaming rig that promises to easily deliver the 90 FPS required by VR headsets like the new Oculus Rift. They're calling it 'Project Quantum', and is...
Hands-on: Intel’s Project Alloy ‘Merged Reality’ Roomscale Multiplayer Demo
At CES 2017, Intel was showing off more of its Project Alloy VR headset, including a roomscale multiplayer demo featuring 'merged reality', where the game environment adapts to your physical surroundings.
Project Alloy
Project Alloy is Intel's VR headset reference design....
SEER 100 Degree FOV ‘Augmented Reality’ Headset Approaches $100,000 Kickstarter Goal
SEER, an augmented reality device from San Francisco/Shenzhen based Caputer Labs Inc, launched their Kickstarter campaign in late January, and have already reached beyond $75,000 of their $100,000 funding goal. The device, which takes advantage of the user's smartphone,...
First Glimpse of Linden Lab’s Next-gen Virtual World, Project Sansar
Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life (2003), has been cooking up their new VR-ready virtual world in stealth for some time now. The company has revealed two screenshots giving us the first glimpse of what that new world...
Hands-on: Gloveone’s Newest Haptic Glove Has Impressive Tracking Tech
At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. The prototype now uses its own tracking system which in early testing seems impressively robust.
Gloveone, created by...
Facebook Founder Says Company Invested $250M in VR Content, Will Invest $250M More
At Oculus Connect's opening keynote today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to drive home the company's commitment to the virtual reality space. How much commitment? Some $500M worth.
Amid a flurry of announcements at Oculus Connect 3's...


















