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After Raising More Than $55,000, Dexta Robotics Cancels Kickstarter for Haptic Hand Exoskeleton

After raising just over $55,000 with the assistance of online crowdfunding, the Chinese mechanical exoskeleton company Dexta Robotics has canceled the Dexmo campaign on Kickstarter. This affordable mechanical exoskeleton was developed to provide forceful feedback to those wearing it and...

Former Call of Duty Developers Working on Mutiplayer VR Shooter

Developer Reload Studios, made up of former Infinity Ward employees, creators of the mighty Call of Duty franchise, has shared details of its plans to produce a VR focussed first person shooter targeting VR headsets such as the Oculus...

Avegant Closes $9.37 Million Series A With Participation by Snoop Dogg, Final HMD Design to Be...

Avegant, creators of the Glyph head mounted display, have announced the closing of a series A funding round of $9.37 million lead by Intel Capital and NHN Investment, including funding from rap artist Snoop Dogg. The company says that...

Kickstarter Roundup: Nimble Sense Passes Goal with 38 Days Remaining, Riftmax Theater Moves On to 7th...

Nimble Sense and Riftmax Theater both launched Kickstarter campaigns recently and both are going well. Nimble Sense has passed its goal with plenty of time remaining, and Riftmax Theater is closing in on their 7th stretch goal. Nimble Sense NimbleVR launched...

‘UniverseVR’ Lets You Visualize 20 Million Galaxies in the Oculus Rift

A developer named Markus Lipp has created a spectacular space demonstration for the Oculus Rift that can help you wrap your head around just how big the universe really is. It's called UniverseVR and utilizes data taken from the Millennium Simulation...

Review: ‘NewRetroArcade’ is a Must-play Homage to Video Game Culture Old and New

I just stepped out of what may as well have been a time machine. NewRetroArcade uses gaming's newest technology to take players back to a classic arcade of yore, replete with playable arcade machines buzzing and blinking in a battle...

‘NewRetroArcade’ is a Brilliantly Detailed 80’s Arcade That Will Take You on a VR Nostalgia Trip

Developer Digital Cybercherries has just released NewRetroArcade, a brilliantly detailed 80's arcade that's built in Unreal Engine 4. Inside, players are taken on a nostalgia trip, able to play any one of many working arcade machines representing classic titles. The...

Epic Games Share Insights: Optimizing ‘Showdown’ for 90 FPS on Oculus Rift Crescent Bay Prototype

At Oculus Connect in September, the VR company brought together experts and developers from across the world to talk VR. Among them were developers from Epic Games, creators of Unreal Engine, who shared some of the challenges and solutions to...

Every ‘Oculus Connect 2014’ Video and Presentation is Now Online

Connect was Oculus VR's inaugural event dedicated solely to virtual reality. It was a huge success in terms of bringing like minded developers together in one space but was also home to some fascinating keynotes and presentations on virtual reality. Luckily, especially...

Nimble Sense Kickstarter Aims to Bring Time-of-Flight Depth-sensing Tech to VR on the Cheap

Today Nimble VR launches a Kickstarter campaign for Nimble Sense, a natural input controller that the company says was designed for virtual reality input. And while Nimble Sense doesn't at first appear to be much different than Leap...

This is the Beginning of VR Education, and It Will Only Get Better

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that dropped them into a fascinating, immersive, educational...

‘Zero Point’ Is the First 3D 360 Degree Documentary for the Oculus Rift, Available now

Zero Point is the first 3D 360 degree documentary film to be released for the Oculus Rift VR headset. The film is not only shot for virtual reality, it's also about virtual reality. Academy Award nominated director Danfung Dennis...

Oculus Hosting ‘Getting Started with the Oculus Mobile SDK’ Among VR Sessions at SDC 2014

Next month, Samsung Developer Conference 2014 will include a virtual reality track for the first time. The track will see eight, 50 minute sessions dedicated to VR. Among them, two sessions hosted by Oculus, including 'Getting Started with the Oculus...

After More than Doubling Funding Goal, About Face Kickstarter Has 37 Hours Left for Ergonomic Oculus...

About Face, an ergonomic liner for the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2, was enthusiastically received when it launched on Kickstarter at the end of September. The campaign passed its funding goal of $12,000 in less than 24 hours. Now,...

Road to VR’s Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce to Moderate VR Panels at Samsung Developer Conference...

At next month's annual Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco, California, Road to VR's Ben Lang and Cymatic Bruce will moderate the conference's two panels on virtual reality. 2014 will be the first year that Samsung, who announced their...
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