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Oculus Story Studio Promo Video Reveals 5 VR Short Films in the Works

Yesterday Oculus revealed that it had formed 'Story Studio', an internal team dedicated to experimenting with real-time CG VR cinema. Today the company has put out a promo video which reveals that the studio has five VR short films...

Samsung Gear VR and Google Project Tango Support Coming to Unreal Engine 4

  In a unique bout of transparency, Epic Games makes publicly available their internal to-do list for Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) development. The company has an entire category of the list dedicated to virtual reality features; support for Samsung Gear...

Apple Granted Patent for Gear VR-like Mobile Headset, Could Have “Broad Ramifications” for Such Devices

Yesterday, Apple was granted a patent for a Gear VR-like mobile headset which would use a portable device (like a smartphone) as the primary display. The patent strikes similarities between both Samsung's Gear VR and a swath of VR...

Here’s the 10 Companies Competing at GTC’s VR Content Showcase for $30,000 in Prizes

With over 120 applications, Nvidia has announced the 10 companies that will compete at the VR Content Showcase during GTC 2017 for $30,000 in cash and prizes. Nvidia's GTC 2017 conference next week has a heavy focus on broader business...
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Cymatic Bruce Plays Doom 3 with the Oculus Rift

Cymatic Bruce joins us again for another Rift gaming session, this time it's Doom 3 BFG! Inside you'll find the game in action, how to set up Doom 3 BFG for the Oculus Rift, and recommendations for an optimal playing experience. The...
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Daydream View Gets Its First TV Commercials

With Google's Pixel phone out the door, the first Daydream-ready phone, the company is now ramping up to launch Daydream View, the first Daydream-ready VR headset. The device is making a cameo alongside the first cable TV ads for...

Closeup with the HTC Vive Developer Edition Headset for SteamVR

The first Vive Developer Edition headsets and controllers for SteamVR are arriving and Owlchemy Labs have been kind enough to provide us with high resolution shots of the system, including the new wireless Lighthouse tracked controllers. The road to consumer...

How to Play Wii and Gamecube Classics on Your Oculus Rift with DolphinVR

Ever wanted to play old gaming classics in virtual reality? Well, DolphinVR is an emulator with enhanced support for the Oculus Rift headset that lets you do just that. Here's how to get it working. Back in the dim, distant...

Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. Although many probably assumed that Valve's collection of VR experiences,...

What’s the Mystery Port on the Oculus Rift DK2? (Update: Mystery Solved, But More Questions Arise)

The Oculus Rift DK2 includes a number of upgrades over the DK1, one of those being a conveniently placed USB port for people who want to experiment with other devices attached to the Rift, like depth cameras. Next to...
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Rift Coaster Meets TRON in ‘Grid Coaster’, Demo Available Now

Grid Coaster is an Oculus Rift enabled roller coaster experience built on Unreal Engine 4 which wants to recall the aesthetics of 80's sci-fi Disney classic TRON (1981). The legendary Rift Coaster was a rough 'n' ready Unreal 3 tech demo...

With 500,000+ Units Shipped, Google Just Got Serious About Cardboard

Today Google is getting serious about Cardboard. The simple VR smartphone adapter debuted at the company's annual I/O 2014 conference earlier this year. What started out as a '20% project', essentially a hobby, is turning into something significant. See Also:...

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...
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6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition

NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...
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25 Minutes of New ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay

Launching exclusively on the Oculus Rift in Q3 2017, ARKTIKA.1's polish and presentation has quickly risen it up the ranks to one of the year's most anticipated VR titles. And though it's still months away, we've got a new...
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