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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...
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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...

John Carmack Casts Critical Eye Over Gear VR Title ‘Bazaar’

John Carmack takes up his role as VR educator once again as he takes a technical deep dive into new Gear VR title Bazaar and analyses, ruminates on and illuminates where the developer could make changes to improve their...

Avegant Reveals Glyph: Transforming HMD With Virtual Retinal Display, Kickstarter Starts at $499

Today Avegant is revealing Glyph, the company's vision for a consumer head mounted display which utilizes their virtual retinal display (VRD) technology. Glyph transforms from a pair of headphones to a head mounted display in seconds with a smart...

Landmark are Creating a Virtual Reality Theme Park You Can Enjoy at Home

Landmark Entertainment Group are one of the leading organisations in the out of home entertainment industry, having been instrumental in devising over 100 'major' attractions worldwide since 1980. Now, they're leveraging that experience to create a new virtual reality...
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First Look: PresenZ Shows Navigable Pre-rendered Room-scale VR Scenes

PresenZ is a system developed by VFX studio Nozon which combines some of the essential benefits of pre-rendered imagery with those of real-time interactivity. For the first time the company is demonstrating a room-scale version of a Presenz-enabled scene. Crash Course:...

Oculus Rift Manufacturing Overview Reveals 200+ Custom Parts, IPD Adjustment Mechanism

In a session at day 1 of Connect, Oculus' Caitlin Kalinowski and Stephanie Lue took to the stage to speak about the challenges associated with making the Oculus Rift a mass-producible product. While the Rift Crescent Bay prototype, revealed by Oculus...

Oculus Releases PC SDK 0.8 with “Improved Support for Windows 10”

As the company drives toward releasing SDK 1.0 alongside the consumer Oculus Rift they've now released SDK 0.8 with "Improved Support for Windows 10." Until SDK 0.7, the Oculus Rift didn't officially support Windows 10. With SDK 0.8, the company...

Oculus Rift ‘Crescent Bay’ is Designed for Audiophiles – Here’s Why that’s Important for VR

Oculus' latest feature prototype VR Headset, code-named Crescent Bay, was out in force at this year's CES, blowing minds left, right and centre. But whilst debate rages over precisely what optics and display it contains, Crescent Bay's audio has...

Oculus CTO John Carmack Will Demo His ‘VrScript’ Environment at Connect

John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that's intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world...
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SMI Introduces 3D Glasses With Eye Tracking

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI), based in Germany, recently introduced new 3D glasses capable of real-time eye tracking. These are active-shutter glasses like you'd find in use with a home 3DTV, but they also support eye tracking and have attachable markers...
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