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Hands On: Doom VR is a Curious But Experimental Tech Demo

Bethesda announced during their pre-E3 event that Doom, as well as Fallout 4, would be playable during the show in VR form. I was able to get my head into Doom's HTC Vive powered VR demo, here's my take on...

Nintendo Might Add VR Functionality to Switch Once “Users Can Play for Hours”

Nintendo is looking to add VR functionality to their upcoming home-and-portable console, the Switch. Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima recently stated that it could be added once they solve some VR-specific issues. According to games industry consultant Dr. Serkan Toto’s translation...

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...

Samsung Suggests High-Powered, Standalone VR Headset To Compete With Rift and Vive

Continuing to push its established mobile VR business—recently revealing its flagship Galaxy S8 smartphones support and an updated Gear VR with controller—Samsung has again confirmed it has more powerful VR hardware up its sleeve. High-end, standalone VR headsets from...

Vrse Immerses 1,200 TED Attendees in Simultaneous VR Experience

On stage at TED 2016, Vrse founder Chris Milk conducted what the company is calling "the largest simultaneous virtual reality experience in history." Using a dedicated app and Cardboard VR viewers handed out at the session, 1,200 attendees peer...

Facebook Plans to Launch Social VR App “As Soon As Possible”

Facebook, parent company of Oculus, is beginning to flex its virtual reality arm. The company wants to use the technology revolutionize how social interactions happen across the web, and we may see the first stages of that plan earlier...

Oculus Internal ‘Story Studio’ Draws Pixar Talent, Experiments with CG Cinematic VR

In the early days, it appeared that Oculus was taking a hardware and platform approach—'if you build it, will come.' But now with some 250 employees and the backing of Facebook, Oculus has begun working on first-party games,...

‘FOVE’, The World’s First Eye-Tracking VR Headset Comes to Kickstarter Today

FOVE is a Japanese technology company who are endeavoring to tackle an issue that will likely become a focus for the VR industry sooner than you think, eye-tracking in virtual reality. The company's new headset employs gaze-detection for input, and today they...
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Watch: Adobe Shows Off In-VR Premiere Video Editor ‘Project CloverVR’

Adobe have down off their solution for editing immersive 360 VR videos within VR itself as they took to the stage at their annual 'MAX' event last week to demonstrate their prototype in-VR editor for Premiere, 'CloverVR'. Adobe Premiere is...

iJustine Steps into the Survios Holodeck

Justine 'iJustine' Ezarik met with the minds behind Project Holodeck, a VR platform that offers full avatar embodiment, to check out the latest work done by the team. Earlier this year I got to step into Project Holodeck, a virtual...
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ILMxLAB Discuss Pioneering VR Storytelling with Star Wars and Beyond

Ben Lang sits down with John Gaeta and Vicki Beck to discuss Lucasfilm's focus on immersive storytelling with the formation of ILMxLab last year, and their constant experimentation in the immersive entertainment space. Lucasfilm's ILMxLab are optimistic, perhaps even bullish, about...

VR Expert to Oculus Rift Devs: Make Sure You’re Doing 3D Right

It turns out that rendering stereoscopic 3D images is not as simple as slapping two slightly different views side-by-side for each eye. There's lots of nuance that goes into rendering a proper 3D view that properly mimics real world...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #2

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. A VR experience inspired by 'The Shining'. You're the new caretaker at The...
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Eonite Claims to Have Solved Inside-out Positional Tracking for VR and AR

Lots of companies have made this claim actually, but Eonite specifically says they have the "world’s most accurate, lowest latency, lowest power consuming software to democratize inside-out positional tracking for VR and AR." Inside-out positional tracking—the ability to precisely determine...

Gorillaz’ Music Video Breaks Record as Most Successful 360 Music Video Debut

The 360-degree version of Gorillaz’ music video for new track Saturnz Barz received over 3 million views in the first 48 hours, making it the single biggest 48 hour debut for a 360 music video in the (young) history...
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