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‘Everest ’53’ Will Take Viewers on a Historically Accurate Journey of Mountain’s First Summit

In 1953 Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary were the first to successfully summit Everest, the world's tallest mountain at 29,029 feet. Now, VR content house CGO Studios is teaming up with descendants of those first summiteers to recreate the momentous...

CNN Launches New Immersive Journalism Initiative, CNNVR

CNN has officially launched CNNVR, a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform with CNN Digital. Capturing major news events in 360 video, the global team will produce weekly virtual reality experiences and live streams. News organisations have tested...

Oculus Touch Global Backorder Has New Orders Shipping 10 to 15 Days After Launch

The long anticipated Oculus Touch controllers launch on December 6th. If you're just putting in your pre-order with Oculus today, you may not have your hands on the device until later in the month. Other retailers may still have unordered...
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Hands-on: Rhythm Game ‘Audio Beats’ is a Hidden Gem That Plays to VR’s Strengths

At SVVR 2017 this week in Silicon Valley, Chinese VR developer organization VRCore brought a range of content to the show representing some of the VR work happening in the West. Among that content was Audio Beats by developer Famiku,...
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First Look: Inside Oculus ‘Arcade’ Beta – New Tech Brings Back Games of a Bygone Era

Oculus has today released their much awaited Arcade app, which lets you play a number of original classic arcade titles from Sega, Midway, and Bandai Namco. While you won't need virtual quarters to try out the games for a limited time,...

Gear VR Will Soon be Able to Livestream VR Gameplay to Facebook

Oculus plans to bring livestreaming to Gear VR, letting users stream their gameplay to Facebook allowing friends to watch and interact with comments and reactions. One of the common problems with Gear VR and mobile VR in general is that,...

Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), the DK2 Enabled Flight Sim That Flew under the Radar at E3...

Guest writer Kevin Williams lifts the lid on a game which missed the glare of the media spotlight at E3 2014—Digital Combat Simulator. During E3 2014, there was a crowded assortment of demonstrators on the Oculus VR booth. One of...

Hands-on: Killing Zombies with the Survios Prime 3 Prototype is a Blast [video]

Survios, formerly Project Holodeck, continues to work to create a fully immersive virtual reality environment. I got my hands on their latest prototype hardware, dubbed the Prime 3, to slay Zombies on the Holodeck once again. The last time I...

Google’s (Day)dream: ‘Hundreds of Millions of Users in a Couple of Years’

At I/O 2016 this week, Google laid out its ambitious goals for Daydream, the company's new platform for native, high performance virtual reality experiences on Android. Daydream is Google's newly announced Android VR ecosystem—encompassing specialized phones, headsets, and apps—which promises to...

Hands-On with Epic Games’ ‘Bullet Train’ and Oculus Touch at SEA-VR

Guest writer Michael Glombicki attended SEA-VR, a Seattle based virtual reality event, yesterday where local developers Epic Games - creators of Unreal Engine - and went hands-on with their latest Oculus Touch enabled, first person, VR shooter 'Bullet Train'...

Kevin Spacey is Invested in Virtual Reality, Literally

As time goes on and as more and more people have a chance to experience good, cutting edge virtual reality, advocates for the technology are springing up in the most unlikely of places. Now, actor and all round patron...

Final Touch Battery Life Improved 40% Over Original Prototype, Up to 30 Hours of Use

At a session breaking down the design of Touch during Oculus Connect, designers of the controller explored the choices that drove the form and functionality of the device. Oculus Touch finally has an official launch date of December 6th and...

‘Tilt Brush’ Surprises and Delights with Best GUI at Proto Awards – Lets You Create VR...

A previously unknown virtual reality software title, Tilt Brush, went home with the Proto Award for Best GUI (graphical user interface) thanks to its innovative virtual reality interface. The software uses a gaze-based interface that allows users to paint...

MSI Details VR One Backpack PC: 7.9 Pounds, GTX 10-series GPU, Hot-swappable Batteries

The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA's 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR gaming without a tether. Each time we try mobile VR,...

Felix & Paul Studios Revealed as Producers of Samsung Gear VR 3D 360 Introduction Experience

Felix & Paul Studios can be revealed as the creators of the Introduction to VR 3D 360° virtual reality cinematic experience commissioned by Samsung and Oculus to come bundled with the Samsung Gear VR. Users of the Samsung Note 4...
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