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Pinć VR Wants to Hide a VR Headset in Your iPhone 6 Case, Indiegogo Now Live

Move over Google Cardboard and Durovis Dive, because Pinć wants a seat at the mobile VR table, and with their new iPhone 6 case—which hides a small form factor VR headset—they'll be needing a little elbow room. Cordon Media, a Toronto-based...

Looking for a Job in Virtual Reality? Apple’s Hiring

If you thought a company like Apple was too big and too busy to concern itself with virtual reality, think again. A new job listing from the company seeks a software engineering who can create "high performance apps that...

Update to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Prepares Phone for Gear VR Launch (screenshots)

At Samsung's 2014 Developer Conference, it was finally announced that the Gear VR 'Innovator Edition' headset, powered by Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 mobile phone, would be released in early December. The Note 4's latest software update (v4.4.4) indicates Samsung is on track...

Preview Two Promising VR Entries in Leap Motion’s ‘3D Jam’: Soundscape VR and Weightless (videos)

Leap Motion's '3D Jam' is a developer competition sponsored by IndieCade, and centers around the popular 3D motion controller, Leap Motion. With contestants vying for $75,000 in prizes, you can imagine that the competition to produce interactive environments that...

Vireio Perception 2.1 RC1 Released with Memory Location Scanner to Improve Compatibility

Vireio Perception is a free, open source VR injection driver that can 'graft' VR support to non-VR games titles. The Vireio Perception team have just released RC1 of the driver which includes an innovative memory location scanner which promises to...

CastAR Ship First Sets of ‘Early’ Glasses to Backers (Video)

castAR, the augmented reality gaming system, have provided an update for Kickstarter backers eagerly awaiting news. The first 'early' design glasses have shipped! What's more they filmed the journey of the very first set from packing to Post Office. CastAR...

What Happens When You Live in VR for a Month Straight? One Man Aims to Find...

Mark Farid, a British artist based in London, wants to strap into a head-mounted display for 28 days straight—and we're not talking about a month of Minecrift. Farid's new Kickstarter campaign, called Seeing I, is supposed to straddle a...

Stuck in VR, Send Help

Hello people of the real world. My name is Ben Lang. If you're reading this message, you're reading words composed and published from within virtual reality. Joking title aside, I'm actually inside AltspaceVR right now as I type, a social...

DreamWorks Reveals Glimpse of 360 Degree ‘Super Cinema’ Rendering for VR Films (video)

On stage at Samsung's 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, spoke about the company's initial work with virtual reality on the Oculus Rift and Gear VR. Though they've produced several real-time...

Paul McCartney’s ‘Live and Let Die’ Performance is Jaunt VR’s First Publically Available Cinematic VR Content

Jaunt VR, the company creating tech for capturing 360 degree 3D VR experiences, has today finally revealed their first publically available content: a performance taken from Sir Paul McCartney's recent Candlestick Park gig in San Francisco earlier this year. McCartney 360 3D...

South Park Takes on the Oculus Rift

South Park's episode last week, Grounded Vindaloop, has zeroed in on the beloved Oculus Rift, along with some longstanding fears surrounding virtual reality. The episode, which dives into a meta virtual reality, also pokes fun at outsourced customer service. If...

DODOcase Sells More Than 65,000 Cardboard VR Kits, Now Kickstarting New Version and Open-source VR Tools

DODOcase is probably known by most for their phone and tablet cases, but the San Francisco-based company jumped on an opportunity to get Google Cardboard VR kits into the hands of a VR-hungry public. To date, the company has...

VRLA #4 Heading to House of Moves on December 13th, Big Names in the VR Scene...

The VRLA Meetup is holding its forth event come Saturday December 13th. To be hosted at House of Moves, a well known motion capture firm based in Los Angeles, California, 26 exhibitors will be present at the event, including many...

Sixense Shows off STEM Tracking With Impressive Ping Pong Demo

Sixense, creators of the tracking technology in the Razer Hydra, have been hard at work over the last year developing Hydra's successor, STEM. The company has also recently announced that STEM will be compatible with Samsung's Gear VR for...

News Bits: Palmer Luckey Wins at the 2014 World Technology Awards

Oculus has caused a stir in the technology world, a statement riddled with understatement perhaps. The company and it's founder Palmer Luckey have walked away with countless industry awards since the appearance of it's Oculus Rift DK1 in late...
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