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Alert: Horizon V ‘4K VR Headset’ May Not Be Legitimate, InfinitEye Team Deny Involvement

The VR headset race has seen many entrants in the last two years other than Oculus's Rift. But none has managed to convincingly best the Rift's raw technical specifications quite so dazzlingly as the InfinitEye 210 Degree, dual 720p...

Exclusive: Preview 3 of Jaunt’s VR Cinema Shorts (video)

Jaunt has been busy shooting several made-for-VR experiences which the company says will be released for VR in trailer form "imminently." Road to VR has the first look at three of Jaunt's forthcoming cinematic VR experiences. Jaunt is working to create...

Breaking: Valve Launches SteamVR Beta On the Eve of Steam Dev Days

Ahead of Steam Dev Days, the annual conference where this year Valve will demonstrate VR hardware and hold several talks on VR, the company has released a beta for 'SteamVR' a new way to interact with Steam using the...
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VorpX’s New Virtual Cinema Lets You Play Non-VR Games on a Virtual Big Screen

vorpX news has been thin on the ground just recently, but that's because the team behind the project have been busy preparing one of the biggest releases yet. v0.8.0, released today, brings with it a raft of new features,...
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AMD Launches Open Source Ray Traced VR Audio Tech ‘TrueAudio Next’

AMD has announced TrueAudio Next a "scalable" physics-based audio rendering engine for generating environmentally accurate, GPU accelerated audio for virtual reality. AMD has announced a set of key technologies to bolster its open source technology arsenal represented by GPUOpen, this...

Minecraft is Finally Coming to the Oculus Rift

Minecraft is finally on its way for the Oculus Rift as the Windows 10 version of the mega hit social world-building game is due to add VR support "in the coming weeks". The game which Oculus CTO John Carmack cited...
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First Look: ‘vTime’ is a “Sociable Network” for Mobile VR, Available Today on Gear VR

Starship, a Liverpool-based digital entertainment studio, has today released vTime on the Gear VR store, the mobile platform's latest social VR app. I got a chance to check out vTime's alpha and sat down with Paul Hollywood, the studios product development director, to find...

Sphericam 2 is a Tiny 360 Camera Sporting 4K Resolution, Kickstarter Nears Funding Goal

Sphericam 2 is a 360-degree camera offering 4K video capture in a very small package, and aims to deliver immersive video specifically targeted at VR headsets. The Czech Republic based team calls their geometric crystalline camera "no bigger than a tennis ball,"...

Platform Politics: Inside the Oculus and ‘Revive’ Dilemma

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive, an act that has caused outrage...

‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz

Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they'd raised a seed round from "Tier 1" VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they're heading next. Bigscreen is simple but...
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HTC Shows Vive Pre Working Great for Seated VR at CES

While the HTC Vive is known for its 'room-scale tracking space, the company maintains that it works just as well for seated VR experiences. At CES 2016, HTC showed just that, using Elite Dangerous running great on the new Vive...
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Unity’s In-VR Game Editor Launches Tomorrow, This Is What It’s Like

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

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. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...

Nikon Turns Attention Toward 360 Video with Expert Panel

Nikon’s foray into 360° video continued at the 'Nikon Innovation Forum: The 360° Video Revolution' event in NYC last week. There the company's recently released KeyMission 360 action camera was the centerpiece among non-360° action cameras of the same...
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‘Envelop’ Launches Open Beta of Immersive Windows Desktop Platform for Vive and Rift

Envelop, the virtual reality desktop platform for Windows, has launched as a public beta for anyone with a Vive or Rift to enjoy. After announcing a $5.5 million Series A investment at the beginning of 2016, followed by a closed...
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