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First Look: ‘TheWave’ Lets DJs Drop the Beat in VR
DJs looking to hone their musical craft in front of a live audience - or perhaps those looking for a more stimulating way to mix music - can rejoice. TheWave from developer WaveVR is looking to provide DJs with a psychedelic...
Google Opens Daydream App Submission to All and Publishes VR App “Quality Requirements”
Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a "Quality Requirements" guide.
As we reported in...
‘Design Your Own Cardboard’ Tool from DODOcase Lets You Create Custom Cardboard
Wearing a brown cardboard box on your face is so 2014. So for the new year, DODOcase's popular VR smartphone adapter (inspired by Google Cardboard) is getting a splash of color with the help of their new customization tool,...
‘SightLine’ Dev Creates Incredible ‘Holographic’ User Interface Powered by Oculus Rift and Leap Motion
Tomáš “Frooxius” Mariančík, creator of the stunning VR experience SightLine: The Chair, is back! This time he's demoing an educational prototype that aims to provide an intuitive virtual reality user interface that allows you to reach into VR and control the...
STRIVR Introduces VR Training On and Off the Field
With industries outside of entertainment expected to account for the majority of virtual reality industry revenues, the question of utility seems ever-pressing. How can virtual reality transcend novelty into utility and become truly useful?
It’s a question that STRIVR Labs...
President Obama Takes VR for a Spin, Thinks Hand Tracking is “Impressive”
Amidst a mounting trade deal between the U.S. and the EU, President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel today visited the Hannover Messe, an annual trade fair for industrial technology, where they donned a VR headset using a depth...
Magic Leap Closes $542m Series B Investment, Now Soliciting Developers for Its “Digital Lightfield” Wearable
According to a press release revealed today, Magic Leap has closed a $524 million Series B funding round led by Google; the deal had been rumored as of last week. Magic Leap, which has been in stealth since its inception, is...
AMD GPUs to Support Asynchronous Reprojection via SteamVR
Announced at AMD’s GDC 2017 press conference, Radeon GPUs will support Asynchronous Reprojection on SteamVR in the next update. The technology helps to maintain smooth head motion when framerate drops below the headset's refresh rate.
Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President...
Visionary VR is Reinventing Filmmaking’s Most Fundamental Concept to Tell Stories in Virtual Reality
Several of the founders of the VRLA Meetup are today launching Visionary VR, a technology and content development studio which is reinventing the language of filmmaking for effective storytelling in virtual reality.
The frame. It’s a simple, but incredibly powerful concept...
‘Loading Human’ Review
Loading Human is a first-person sci-fi adventure that, much like the pulp fiction space operas of years gone past, puts you in the shoes of a charming 22nd century astronaut straight out of space academy. Instead of launching into the far...
Sony Expects Early PSVR Sales to Reach “Many Hundreds of Thousands”
Sony is setting high near term sales figure expectations for PlayStation VR's rollout.
Speaking with CNBC earlier this week, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company's confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset.
"We know...
Exclusive: Early Oculus Rift DK2 Unboxing, “The color, contrast, and motion is leaps and bounds over...
It's DK2 month, with swaths of developers and enthusiasts eagerly awaiting a knock on the door from their local delivery man. An anonymous source has revealed an unboxing of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift DK2.
In a recent update from...
Preview: ‘Ghibli VR’ Offers a Virtual Tour of Some of the World’s Most Beloved Anime
Fans of the prolific anime production house Studio Ghibli, known for iconic films like Princess Mononoke (1997) and Kiki's Delivery Service (1989), are probably already well aware of developer Nick Pittom and his Ghibli-inspired demos. Following a recent update, you can now...
Oculus Affirms Commitment to Gamepad Input As Touch Launch Nears, “we don’t believe gamepads are going...
While Oculus has been drumming up its soon to launch Touch VR controller for many months now, the company doesn't expect motion input to supersede the gamepad gameplay that Rift users are using today.
The introduction of an Xbox One...
HTC Announces Vive ‘Business Edition’ for $1200
HTC today announced a new edition of the Vive headset targeted specifically at businesses looking to get into room-scale experiences. Called simply 'Vive Business Edition' (Vive BE), HTC says that the new enterprise-focused presentation of the headset will include "additional services...



















