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VirZOOM Partners With AMD to Bring VR Fitness Bikes to Locations Across the Globe

Pedaling a stationary bike is kind of a sad metaphor for life: try as you may, you're never going anywhere. But thanks to virtual reality, there might be an exercise machine coming to your local gym or arcade that...

Capturing Virtual Worlds: A Method for Taking 360 Virtual Photos and Videos

In this technical deep-dive, D 'eVRydayVR' Coetzee explores in detail the technical challenges preventing us from sharing our favourite VR experiences with others and the solutions available to overcome them. D is a VR software developer and founder of the...
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Nvidia’s VRWorks Audio Brings Physically Based 3D GPU Accelerated Sound

At Nvidia's special Editors Day event in Austin, Texas, the company unveiled an enhancement to it's VRWorks APIs which now includes what it says is the first "Physically Based Acoustic Simulator Engine", accelerated by Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia and AMD's focus on...

Research Survey Suggests Kids Are Equally Aware of Major VR Headsets, Want to Buy One at...

A recent survey conducted by Touchstone Research, an online marketing research firm, suggests that kids and teens between the ages of 10–17 know what VR is, and when they see it in action they think it's "off the charts cool." Touchstone...

Oculus Working on Inside-Out Tracking for Stand-Alone VR Headset – Breaking

Revealed today on stage at Oculus Connect, Mark Zuckerberg teased "the next phase of virtual reality," an inside-out tracking solution that would allow a headset to go entirely without the need of an outside tracking tech like the Rift's IR...

‘Witcher 3’ Developer “observing [VR] with interest”, Awaiting Compelling Content

Developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED, 2015's Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is surely one of the best regarded games to launch in recent memory. Studio co-founder Marcin Iwinski says the studio is watching VR carefully, but he's still...

‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator & Former Epic Games Exec. Producer Form New VR Studio, Squanchtendo

With a name that could only have come from the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, Squanchtendo is a VR game studio founded by Roiland and former Epic Games producer Tanya Watson to " edgy, mature comedy with refined, high-end...

Today Only: Vive Anniversary Brings $100 Discount, Free Content, Viveport Subscription Service Launch

With the Oculus Rift anniversary sale soon coming to an end, it's now time for the HTC Vive—which launched just a week after the Rift—to get in on the celebration. The April 5th anniversary of the Vive launch, which HTC is...

Hands-on: Idealens’ All-in-one VR Headset Looks Crazy, But You’ll Wear it Anyway

There's been a lot of talk lately (including from yours truly), about the impressive comfort of Sony's PlayStation VR headset, but Idealens K2, a mobile all-in-one VR headset out of China, features a promising new ergonomic approach that might...

Q&A With Palmer Luckey, Creator of the Oculus Rift

Palmer Luckey, who also goes by PalmerTech online, is the creator of the forthcoming Oculus Rift head mounted display and genuine VR nerd (I use that term endearingly). Luckey, who claims to have the largest private HMD collection in the world, remains...

One of the World’s Largest Adult Entertainment Studios Launches VR Initiative

Kink, a San Francisco based adult entertainment studio and network of adult websites, has today taken their first step into virtual reality, offering adult films for playback on Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard. Kink claims to be...

Valve’s ‘Secret Shop’ HTC Vive Demo Introduces You to DotA 2’s Fantastic World Full of Magic

Valve showed off a special HTC Vive demo at this year's Gamescom featuring the shopkeeper from the Dota 2 universe. There's no telling yet, but Secret Shop looks extremely cohesive and shows a taste of what level of VR interaction may be just around...

Samsung’s In-house Incubator to Showcase New VR/AR Experiments at MWC

Although the Samsung Galaxy S8 may not make its big entrance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona next week, the company will however be presenting a few new VR/AR projects coming direct from their in-house incubator Creative Lab (C-Lab). Just recompense?...

Once a Pioneer of VR in Theme Parks, Disney Aims for AR This Time Around

“Don’t even think about it” is Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger’s message to theme park development team regarding virtual reality, according to a report from the LA Times. Instead, Iger sees augmented reality headsets to be the more likely...

Intel Makes Multimillion Dollar Investment in VR Enterprise Developer WorldViz

Today WorldViz has announced that it received a "multimillion" dollar Series A investment from Intel Capital, the investment arm of the famed chip manufacturer. The company wouldn't specify the exact amount, but says that the money will be used...
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