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VRLA Meetup #2 Invades MxR Labs, Photos and Impressions from the Event
VRLA (Virtual Reality Los Angeles) is the brainchild of one Cosmo Scharf, a Film Production student at the University of Southern California and a self confessed VR Evangelist. Although one of the newer meetups on the block, VRLA has...
Nintendo Patents Eye-Tracking Tech Bringing 3D to 2D Displays
Nintendo has always danced to a tune all its own. Refusing to accept the status quo in the often relentless inevitability of the gaming world has lead to both incredible successes (introducing natural motion with the Wii) to abject...
CastAR AR/VR Headset Anticipates Delays, Hints at Two-camera Tracking Solution
It's the news no Kickstarter backer wants to hear, but every Kickstarter backer ought to be prepared for... delays. Some 62 'Early Dev Glasses' of CastAR, the forthcoming AR/VR headset, were originally planned to be sent out in April and...
Oculus VR Showing Sword Art Online Demo for the Oculus Rift at Anime Expo—Breaking
Today marks the start of Anime Expo 2014 in Los Angeles, where Oculus VR is representing with a booth at the show. The company is showing a never-before-seen Sword Art Online demo for the Oculus Rift, a popular action...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep.71): Building Google Cardboard from Scratch with Elizabeth
I sent my wife, Elizabeth, to the store to gather up all of the items we needed to build Google Cardboard from scratch. An hour later, we had it built and in this episode of the Rev VR Podcast,...
VIVE – the Very Immersive Virtual Experience that Fuses Motion Capture with the Oculus Rift
Naturalistic input for users wishing to take that extra step towards full body immersion for their virtual reality experience is still some way off. You can see the pieces forming and coming together, and things are evolving quickly, but...
Google: ‘Cardboard is a Placeholder,’ 6,000 Kits and 50,000+ App Downloads in First Week
Last week Google surprised the crowd at I/O 2014 with the reveal of Cardboard, a low-cost VR smartphone adapter which the company gave away to every developer in attendance. Google, who praise Oculus for "putting VR back into the...
Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 70): The Genesis Experience and Senza Peso with Kite and Lightning
While I was in Los Angeles for E3 2014, I had the opportunity to spend some time with the Kite and Lightning guys. They showed me a project called "Genesis" that took took my breath away.
For me, the best...
Kite & Lightning’s ‘Genesis’ is an Immersion-machine That Takes You on a Reality-bending Ride
When the Kite & Lightning developers told me they had something to show me that couldn't physically be demonstrated anywhere else, I was intrigued. Little did I know, upon arriving at their office, that I would be stepping into...
Google Adds Virtual Reality Street View Mode to Google Maps for Android
With the launch of Google's Cardboard VR smartphone adapter at Google I/O 2014 earlier this week, the company hopes to kickstart VR development for Android. In addition to the Cardboard app, Google has pushed out and updated version of...
SVVR Meetup #11 Happens Tonight – Join the Live Stream Online or in Virtual Reality
Road to VR's Brian Hart will be live streaming the 11th gathering of the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Meetup tonight, starting at 7:00pm PDT. The event will be broadcast online and in virtual reality through Riftmax.SVVR, one of the...
VR Philly to Host Philadelphia’s First Virtual Reality Meetup on July 2nd
West coasters are a lucky bunch, the growing popularity of virtual reality has brought forth plenty of great community gatherings to choose from—SVVR, VRLA, SFVR, and OCVR—just to name a few. Now, the East Coast is getting into the...
‘Hello, Again’ by Director Chris Milk is a Revolutionary Virtual Reality Concert Experience Featuring Beck
Director Chris Milk was tasked by Lincoln to reimagine the concert experience, and reimagine it he did. Milk's audacious project, Hello, Again, featuring Beck, is an incredible interactive concert experience that's best viewed through the Oculus Rift. I recently had...
News Bits: Impressive VR Lightsaber Video Uses the Oculus Rift and a Serious Mo-Cap Rig
Let's face it, there's a large proportion of people reading this post that hold a secret (or not so secret) desire to kick Imperial ass using nothing but the Force and a Lightsaber.
Well a hacker named Benjamin Teitler just...
Oculus VR Responds to ZeniMax Allegations with 32 Page Court Filing
As part of the ongoing lawsuit against Oculus VR on behalf of ZeniMax, Oculus has today responded to ZeniMax's official court filing with their own comprehensive 32 page document. The response presents what appears to be a strong case...















