HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years.
SUPERHOT VR is one of the standout VR games to come out with the Oculus Touch launch with its unique blend of the mechanics of a first-person shooter but with the strategy of a puzzle game. Physics-based interactions in VR are already compelling since it helps to cultivate plausibility within our brains through the expectation loop of prediction and observation. Tying your movements to the progression of time within the game provided me with a awe-inspiring experience of the fabric of space-time that’s completely unique to VR and feels like it has rewired my brain.
While much of the world moves to cloud streaming media libraries, there remains those of us that like to maintain our own personal local media library. Plex is a popular application for streaming your own library to other devices, and now a developer is creating a VR client that builds on the Plex platform.
STRIVR Labs, a company focused on using VR for sports training, plans to use a new $5 million investment to expand the scope of its “experiential learning” platform.
In a post to the company’s official blog, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he’ll be stepping down from the company’s top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role.
Insomniac Games have laid out their plans detailing content updates for their Oculus Touch launch title The Unspoken – and there’s a lot of stuff on the way.
nDreams, the company behind this year’s VR intriguing adventure title The Assembly, have announced a new project which offers an altogether different experience. Perfect is a transportative, relaxation experience which aims to whisk your mind away to beautiful locations in order to escape the daily grind.
VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, yesterday announced the launch of their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution provides a 4k resolution image that can be automatically stitched and transmitted them live to VR headsets and video streaming platforms.
Microsoft has enabled a long promised feature for their games console the Xbox One, the ability to stream games into a VR environment via a headset attached to a PC.
Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding.
VR escape room games are one of the emerging genres that are particularly well-suited for the affordances of VR, and Schell Games’ I Expect You to Die sets the standard for creating this type of puzzle game. I had a chance to catch up with game design director Shawn Patton at GDC in March where he shared some of the design strategies for I Expect You to Die.
If you’re at all involved in the VR space, you likely recently saw a flurry of downtrodden headlines describing “slow,” and “modest,” holiday VR headset sales, with some even calling VR “the biggest loser this holiday.”
