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Play ‘The Worst VR Game Ever’ and Support a Great Charitable Cause

It's not the moniker most developers would relish being attached to their work, but in the case of  the developers at Shiny Shoe, creators of Desert Bus VR, it's entirely appropriate. Drive the Desert Bus for Hope On a very long and...

First Impressions of Project Beyond, Samsung’s 360 3D Camera for VR

  In a surprise announcement at SDC, Samsung revealed Project Beyond, a 360 degree 3D camera for filming virtual reality content. We got to take a look at the unit first hand and experience the VR video that it captures. Project Beyond...

SDC 2014: The Human Perceptual System in Virtual Reality – LiveBlog @1pm PDT

"This talk will focus on the human component of VR: your perceptual system. Virtual reality systems like the Oculus Rift and Gear VR replace the visual input to your brain in a way technology never has before; for better...

Beautiful Hi-Res Images of Samsung’s ‘Project Beyond’ Surface, Along with New Video

Think Tank Team, the alias given to Samsung's 'Research America' group have launched a website celebrating the research, design and engineering that went into Project Beyond, Samsung's newly announced 3D 360 VR Camera tech. Form, Function Samsung's San Jose based research...

VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Crystal Rift’ Launches Kickstarter Campaign

It's interesting to see genres and themes returning in an entirely new and yet familiar form. Grid-based dungeon crawler Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics....

SDC 2014: Oculus Launches Mobile SDK for Android Development on Gear VR—Breaking

Oculus has just released their long awaited mobile SDK for Android development on Samsung's forthcoming Gear VR headset. Oculus Mobile SDK 0.4.0 Now Available for Download The 868MB Oculus Mobile SDK can be downloaded in the Oculus developer portal here. Oculus...

SDC 2014: Samsung Announces ‘Project Beyond’ A 3D 360 Camera for VR – Breaking

SDC 2014 has just kicked off and at the opening keynote, Samsung have just announced  that, alongside their new Note 4 based VR Headset, they've also got a 360 Stereoscopic 3D camera, designed and built to capture video for...

SDC 2014: Samsung Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ to Launch in U.S. Early December—Breaking

Today at Samsung Developer Conference 2014, the company has announced that their mobile VR headset, Gear VR, will launch in early December, just in time for the holiday season. Price and exact date yet to be specified. There's not much...

John Carmack Wants Minecraft on Samsung’s Gear VR

John Carmack, famed developer and Oculus CTO, is known for being open and frank. Having prodded Minecraft developer Mojang on the topic in the past, now that the company has changed hands following its sale to Microsoft, Carmack has once...

Proto Award Winning ‘Synthesis Universe’ Teases Breathtaking Visuals – Hands-On

Synthesis Universe is a rare thing, a virtual reality game which has been in development for over 3 years. Paul James goes hands-on with the neon infused, futuristic teaser experience for the Oculus Rift DK2 and comes away wanting...

Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift

Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...

Hands-on with Fove’s First Eye-tracking HMD Prototype

At Engadget Expand 2014 in NYC I got to take a look at Fove, a head mounted display with integrated eye-tracking. This is an older prototype made some time ago, but demonstrates the core technology and potential benefits of eye-tracking...

News Bits: ‘Dumpy Going Elephants’ Now Released for DK2

One of the most unlikely ambassadors for virtual reality gaming to come out of Indiecade's 2013 VR Jam contest, Dumpy Going Elephants has now been released in it's first DK2 compatible version.Back in September 2013, the IndieCade VR Jam contest,...

Samsung Gear VR Gets Positional Tracking Via Sixense STEM, Announced at SFVR (Video)

Samsung's Gear VR is close to release, if recent rumours are to be believed, and it's certainly hotly anticipated. At a recent SFVR meetup, Sixense demo'd a solution to the Note 4 powered VR headset's one glaring feature omission -...

VR Dev Storms Comic-con with Z0NE and an Oculus Rift, Here’s His Video Diary

There's absolutely one constant with virtual reality, it's a medium that provides an experience that cannot be adequately described. You have you be shown to understand what good VR feels like. It's a sentiment developer of VR shooter Z0NE...
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