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John Carmack’s Brilliant Oculus Connect Keynote Goes ‘off Message from the Standard PR Plan’

There are two sorts of people in this world: those that have listened to John Carmack talk and those who are unenlightened. One of the key minds behind Doom and Quake is a most unlikely orator, but one who...
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Latest Dexmo Input Glove Features Positional Tracking with Full Finger Input, Claims 5ms Latency

Dexta Robotics, a technology company with presence in the US, China and the UK, has announced the latest iteration of its Dexmo input glove. A new video released demonstrates some of the glove's capabilities, as a user is shown...

Live Comedy Show ‘Comedy Living Room’ Coming to Altspace Thursday

Comedy Living Room, the stand-up comedy show created by Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz (and literally held in a living room), is hosting its first show in VR on Thursday, April 27th at 5pm PT. The collaboration between...

‘Jesus VR’ Claims First Ever Feature-length VR Film, to Preview at Venice Film Festival

Jesus VR: The Story of Christ, an upcoming feature-length 360 film, is getting its first public preview at this year's Venice Film Festival. Hailed as the world's first ever feature length VR film production, the 90-minute movie depicts the life, works, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus...

Google’s Daydream View Headset is Out Nov 10th, Software Line Up Detailed

As we wrote recently, Google's first dedicated Daydream VR headset 'View' is out on November 10th and Google have now detailed the Daydream platform's launch window software line up. Google's long awaited evolution of Cardboard, its early Android-based VR experiment,...

Kat Walk VR Treadmill Passes Kickstarter Goal With 3 Weeks to Go

Kat Walk, a VR treadmill from China based company KatVR, can now add its name to the list of omnidirectional treadmills currently in pre-order, which includes the likes of Cyberith Virtualizer and Virtuix Omni. KatVR has yet to release any news...

7 Great Gear VR Experiences to Introduce Your Family to Virtual Reality Over Thanksgiving

If you've gotten a hold of a Gear VR recently, then you've probably already downloaded near everything in the store on your visual buffet through the first consumer-ready virtual reality headset. If you're celebrating Thanksgiving with a family get-together, the right...

SVVR Con: Ubercast 2014 – With Special Guest, Palmer Luckey

They have each individually done their part to fill your ears, minds, and souls with VR conversations and to help keep the enthusiasm for VR going. Now, at the 2014 SVVR Conference & Expo, Cris Miranda, Matt Carrell, Brian...
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Behind-the-scenes With Google’s New Live-action 360 Short Film ‘Help’

During ATAP's presentation at this year's Google I/O, the in-house skunkworks debuted HELP, a new live-action 360 monster movie made in collaboration with The Mill and Star Trek 3 director Justin Lin. Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) has recently debuted HELP, a made-for-VR 360...

Inversion Project: Low Cost ‘Pop-up’ VR Environment, Zombie Game Demo Video

It looks like we've got a new challenger to Project Holodeck. 'Inversion Project' by Zero Latency Media is a low-cost, portable VR environment that allows players to crouch, jump, and move around a physical space while having that movement...

NBA Games to Be Recorded in VR Video, Exclusively for Samsung Gear VR

The NBA have announced that they're to bring a collection of their events to VR, giving basketball fans the chance to go courtside without even being there. The ability to capture the electric atmosphere of a live sporting event for...

Hands On: ‘Manus’ Wireless VR Gloves Adding OSVR Integration, Promising Hints of Future Positional Tracking

Manus, the minds behind the eponymous VR data glove and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) partners, have revealed to us that they are well on their way integrating OSVR equipment for their wireless VR gloves Far from giving up on...

CES 2015: Avegant Glyph, New Design Nearing Consumer Level Fit and Finish

Here at CES 2015 in Las Vegas we had the opportunity to try on a new design prototype of the Avegant Glyph, a head-mounted display that resembles a high-end pair of headphones. As non-functioning prototypes go, the new Avegant Glyph...

Hands On: SMI’s Gear VR Eye Tracking is Accurate, Fast and Lightweight

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) is a Berlin based company involved in creating eye tracking solutions across several industries, and has been doing so for the past 25 years. At MWC I sat down with Christian Villwock, director of OEM sales, to...

Team Fortress 2 Oculus Rift Hat Pictured, VR Mode Patch and Wiki Page Now Live

Valve has provided the first high-res glimpse of the unique TF2 Oculus Rift hat that users of the HMD will be able to wear. A patch for TF2, which enables 'VR mode', rolled out yesterday alongside the news. Valve...
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