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E3 2014: Cmoar is a Mobile VR Viewer With Swappable Lenses (Video)

It's now fairly unusual for us to attend big shows like E3 without seeing another mobile smartphone VR viewer pop up. As the processing power and 3D rendering capabilities of average smart phones has exploded these days, and that...
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Widescale Tracking and Real Props Make for an Even More Immersive VR Experience

Kenzan, a Geneva based 3D visual effects company, has recently released a video showing a curious motion capture installation that could have you discovering a pharaoh's tomb in a setting that blends the physical world with the virtual. The...

Google Wants to Use Tango Tech for VR, But Admits Current Dev Kits Aren’t Optimized

Project Tango, Google's computer vision project able to track and map 3D spaces in realtime, may well find its way into future VR projects from the company, but they admit that current developer hardware may not be up to...

Free Gear VR with Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge Pre-orders “While Supplies Last”

Samsung today announced their next generation of Galaxy S smartphones, the S7 and S7 Edge. The company says Gear VR will be included for free with pre-orders. On stage at Samsung's Unpacked event in Barcelona today, the company revealed the...

Update to Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Prepares Phone for Gear VR Launch (screenshots)

At Samsung's 2014 Developer Conference, it was finally announced that the Gear VR 'Innovator Edition' headset, powered by Samsung's Galaxy Note 4 mobile phone, would be released in early December. The Note 4's latest software update (v4.4.4) indicates Samsung is on track...

Palmer Luckey on Why Building the Virtual Reality Metaverse is a Moral Imperative (video)

During a panel that I was fortunate to moderate at last week's SVVR Conference & Expo in Mountain View, California, EnterVR's Cris Miranda offered up a question from the audience. He asked Palmer Luckey to elaborate on previous statements that...
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New Magic Leap Footage Shows Office Solar Systems and Hiding Robots

Magic Leap debuted some footage of their mysterious tech at WSJDLive today, a yearly conference held by The Wall Street Journal featuring some of the biggest names in tech. Update: A much better quality video was posted by Magic Leap after publishing this...
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Crytek’s Beautiful ‘Back to Dinosaur Island’ VR Tech Demo Now Available on Oculus Rift

Crytek has today released the Back to Dinosaur Island tech demo for download. The five minute demo showing a perturbed T-Rex is compatible with Oculus Rift DK2 headset and built on CryEngine. First seen at GDC 2015, Back to Dinosaur Island was...

‘Konrad the Kitten’ Aims to Add Presence to the Virtual Pet Genre

The virtual pet craze that started with the Tamagotchi is entering a new era with virtual reality, and leading the charge is a new project that aims to give you very own virtual cat, it's called Konrad the Kitten and...

AltspaceVR Seed Investment Tops $5.2 Million, Software Details Revealed Today at SVVR #13

Altspace VR has today announced significant follow-on funding to their initial investment round which more than doubles the company's seed funding, putting the total now at $5.2 million. The company, which has been largely in stealth mode, intends to...

MelodyVR Introduces ‘iTunes of VR’ Concept to O2 Store Customers

Launching later this year on Rift, Gear VR, and Vive, music VR platform MelodyVR is previewing a light version of its app across some 600 O2 stores in Germany in partnership with Telefónica. 42 of those stores will allow...

Microsoft: “All Windows Universal Apps Work as Holograms”

Wondering how Microsoft HoloLens development will work? Microsoft says that HoloLens APIs are built into the core of Windows 10 and that all Universal apps—those built for cross-device capability–will be automatically compatible with the HoloLens AR headset. Although concepts of...

Cymatic Bruce Plays: Bioshock Infinite, Mass Effect 3, and Tera on Oculus Rift with VorpX

Hey VR Heads! I am back with more VR gameplay analysis, this time using the highly anticipated VorpX software to explore various titles. Let’s dig right in! Super Easy Setup Using VorpX was awesomely simple. Double click on the shortcut, the...

HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2

Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...
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Review: ‘InCell’ is a VR Racer That Puts You Inside the Microscopic World of a Cell

InCell is VR racing game that shrinks you down to play among the micro structures of a human cell. Visuals, gameplay, and the feel of the game are all on point, but some of the educational material seems a little whitewashed...
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