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19 VR Experiences Coming to Tribeca Film Festival
Virtual reality is coming to the Tribeca Film Festival in a big way this year. Festival visitors will have the chance to try out 19 VR exhibits, most of which are seeing their world premier.
Interactive installations and VR content...
‘NUREN’ Lands on Kickstarter for “Feature-Length VR Music Experience” for the Oculus Rift
The New Renaissance is planned to be an interactive cinematic VR experience, more than an hour in runtime, featuring original music and voice-acting. The project, which will work in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift, and on standard...
FOVE Raises $11 Million Series A Investment to ‘Accelerate Mass Production’ in Fall 2016
FOVE today announced a Series A investment of $11 million led by the Colopl VR Fund with participation by Hon Hai VC fund 2020, and Samsung Ventures.
Fove, who is creating a VR headset with inbuilt eye-tracking, raised $480,000 on Kickstarter last...
CES 2015: AltspaceVR CEO Eric Romo Talks Social VR at Intel’s Booth
We had a chance to talk shop with the minds behind AltspaceVR, a yet unreleased social platform for virtual reality, located at the Intel booth at CES 2015 in Las Vegas. Executive Editor and intrepid reporter Ben Lang spoke with Eric...
Oculus Rift CV1 High Res Photos Suggest a Lighter, More Comfortable Headset
The first glimpses of the Oculus Rift CV1, the consumer version of the company's hotly anticipated headset are finally here. Like the Rift DK2 and Crystal Cove prototype that came before it, the CV1 shares a clear lineage with...
Minecraft Creator Develops Experimental WebVR Project
Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has published an experimental virtual reality project that takes the form of a ray marching fractal renderer that runs in the web browser.
Known begrudgingly to this writer as 'the guy who didn't...
The HTC Vive Will Let You Call and Text in Virtual Reality
HTC Today unveiled the price and launch date of its SteamVR powered VR headset the Vive. They also revealed a new feature to launch with the Vive 'Consumer Edition', HTC Phone Services, a service which lets you make calls whilst...
Dead and Buried’s Journey from Gear VR to Oculus Touch Flagship Game
Ben Lang caught up with Oculus Studios Designer Ryan Rutherford at Oculus Game Days to find out how the impressive western multi-player shooter Dead & Buried, ended up as as a flagship motion control title for the Rift after...
Sony Morpheus VR Headset Shown in Public for First Time at SVVR Meetup #10
Sony Computer Entertainment surprised last evening's Silicon Valley VR meetup #10 with the first public display of their Project Morpheus VR headset prototype.
Morpheus, unveiled at this year's Game Developers Conference in March, was only shown to a limited audience...
Hands On: ESI’s Incredibly Accurate VR CAD Simulation Lets You Take Cars Apart
Dominic Brennan gets his hands on ESI Group's latest iteration of IC.IDO, their automotive visualisation tool that uses CAD-accurate data to generate extremely realistic VR simulations which let you take apart (or fix) your own virtual car.
The GPU Technology...
Hands-on: ‘iRacing’ Gets Initial Oculus Rift CV1 Support
iRacers almost missed out on VR support in the last update. According to Shawn Nash, the software engineer responsible for implementing VR into iRacing, it was a very close call. “We ported the support from DX9 into our new...
‘Temple Run VR’ Brings the Mobile Mega-hit to Samsung Gear VR
With more than one billion downloads on mobile platforms, the Temple Run series is one of the biggest games in the mobile space. The developer behind Temple Run, Imangi Studios, is bringing a virtual reality version of the game...
Preview: Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill Production Model (video)
I've been fortunate to try the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill several times over the course of its development. At every point though, I was testing some variation of the original prototype seen in the company's highly successful Kickstarter campaign....
The VR Community Shows Its Christmas Spirit with Cards, Demos, and More
In the spirit of Christmas, some members of the VR community have mashed up their passion for virtual reality with today's holiday. We offer a quick roundup of some of our favorite Christmas VR creations.
One of the best parts...
New Gear VR Games and Apps – January Weeks #3 and 4
Got a Samsung Gear VR? Hungry for new games and experiences? We're rounding up recent Oculus Store releases for fans of the mobile VR platform. A bumper roundup this week: highlights include Cube-inspired puzzler Neverout, comedy VR film experience BUTT's: The VR...

















