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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...
‘Alien’, ‘Blade Runner’ Director Ridley Scott Launches VR Film Division
Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), the film production company of famed director Ridley Scott, is launching RSA VR, a new division dedicated to the production of high-end immersive films using VR, AR, and mixed reality. Scott and co. is known...
Valve Reveals Timeline of Vive Prototypes, We Chart it For You
Welcome to Valve's Steam VR Mini-museum
Virtual reality is still in its infancy. Many hard problems are being worked through and thus, the hardware to deliver compelling VR experiences is still evolving. Anyone who's followed the VR space for a while...
VR Video Transition Pioneered by News Channel is the Best We’ve Seen Yet
What do you get when you cross immersive video with a TV newscast? Belgian news channel VRT Nieuws today released a 360 video that could be the answer.
VRT (Flemish Radio and Television Organization) just completed construction on their new studio, and what...
Magic Leap Raises $793.5 Million Series C Investment to Accelerate Adoption of Secretive AR Tech
Magic Leap today announced the closure of a massive $793.5 million Series C investment led by Alibaba. The company has kept their supposedly revolutionary AR tech under wraps to the public, but seem to have no trouble convincing investors...
Alien: Isolation in VR is Beautiful and Terrifying
Alien: Isolation is Creative Assembly's stab at moving a beloved movie franchise into a compelling interactive experience. Early word on the title was that, unlike the execrable Aliens: Colonial Marines before it, Isolation was something a bit special. What's...
MindMaze Raises $100 Million with $1B Valuation for “Neural Virtual Reality Platform”
MindMaze today announced closing a $100 million seed investment led by Hinduja Group which company says values them in excess of $1 billion.
MindMaze is creating what they call a "neural virtual reality platform," an extension of products the company has created for...
The Biggest Gain for PSVR on PS4 Pro (so far) is Loading Speed
PS4 Pro launches this week. The new console packs significantly more power than the standard PS4 and is aimed at 4K gaming. When it comes to PSVR, which is limited by its 1080p screen, the biggest gains we're seeing...
Resident Evil 7 Will be Playable to the End With PlayStation VR, First Trailer Here
Sony had a handful of VR surprises for us at their Pre-E3 event last night and one of them will be very welcome to survival horror fans. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is coming to PlayStation VR this year and...
Stuck in VR, Send Help
Hello people of the real world. My name is Ben Lang. If you're reading this message, you're reading words composed and published from within virtual reality.
Joking title aside, I'm actually inside AltspaceVR right now as I type, a social...
Facebook Picks Former Android VP as New Head of Oculus, Looks to ‘Take VR mainstream’
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg has tapped Hugo Barra, Xiaomi's current Global VP, for the position of CEO at Oculus VR. Barra will be tasked with not only leading Oculus, Facebook's subsidiary, but all of Facebook's VR projects. Barra will be replacing...
Google Announces Tilt Brush ‘Artist in Residence’ Program Featuring Over 60 Artists
Google have announced a new 'Artist in Residence' program which will see over 60 artists introduced to the emergent artistic platform of virtual reality via the company's own Tilt Brush application.
As anyone who's tried it knows, Google's Tilt Brush...
Samsung and Six Flags Re-up Collaboration with New VR Coasters Combining ‘Mixed Reality’ and ‘Complex Gameplay’
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation—which runs theme park properties across the americas—and Samsung Electronics America, Inc. recently launched a renewed collaboration on new rides at two Six Flags theme parks which place users on real roller coasters while using a...
Altair Digital Are Bringing the Planetarium Experience to Your Face Using VR
Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema.
One of the earliest forms of immersive education and perhaps a pre-cursor...
Valve’s ‘Steam Direct’ to Replace Controversial ‘Greenlight’ Voting System
Steam Direct, a new sign-up system for launching games on the store, is due to replace Greenlight in Spring 2017. Currently, any developer or publisher new to Steam is required to submit their game for approval through Greenlight, which...



















