At VRLA Summer Expo 2016, Visionary VR premiered Mindshow, an interactive storytelling platform which allows users to animate and voice characters by inhabiting those character’s bodies.
I had a chance to catch up with Visionary VR and VRLA co-founder Cosmo Scharf, where we talked about some of the inspiration behind Minshow including the Buddhist philosophy of Alan Watts and the post-symbolic, direct experience ideas from Terence McKenna.
Soon you’ll be able to walk into a regular store in Europe and Canada and pick up an Oculus Rift headset, according to a tweet from the company’s CEO Brendan Iribe.
Ubisoft have announced the release dates for it’s first three dedicated VR games, ‘Star Trek: Bridge Crew‘, ‘Eagle Flight‘ and ‘Werewolves Within‘.
Oculus revealed Touch, their VR motion controllers, all the way back in June of 2015, but didn’t commit to shipping the controllers until the second half of 2016. Since the announcement, the controller has seen several design permutations, but Oculus says the controller is nearly complete, and better than ever.
Binocular overlap refers to the visible overlapping portion between the two eyes of a stereoscopic vision system. In other words, it describes how much of the viewed scene can be seen by both eyes as opposed to by just one of the eyes.
Cerevrum is building an ambitious educational platform starting with training people to become better public speakers with Speech Center VR. The basic mechanic is that you stand in a variety of different virtual rooms in front of an animated crowd of virtual listeners as you give a presentation. The app is designed to help people get over their fears of public speaking, but there are many other educational learning opportunities from a number of upcoming courses featuring public speaking coaches.
Digital Domain is to capture some 250 hours of immersive 360 video at a major sporting event in Rio this year using a new bespoke camera of their own design.
Today we’re are pleased to announce Exemplar 2, the second generation of our high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Exemplar 2 Ultimate is Road to VR’s internal test bench for VR reviews and benchmarking.
Matthew Magee gets active and takes a swing at the new futuristic VR sports featuring heavy classic arcade influences for the HTC Vive, Racket: Nx.
YouTube tells budding VR film-makers what not to do when shooting an immersive 360 in this excellent crash course in this fledgling but ever more popular form of content.
Today at the Intel Developer Forum event in San Francisco, Intel revealed Project Alloy, an all-in-one mobile virtual reality headset which the company says will launch in 2017 as an “open platform.”
Nvidia’s rollout of Pascal technology continues at a relentless pace. After a launch presentation that included a live demo of Gears of War 4 running at 4K on Ultra settings on a GTX 1080 notebook, and Doom running on a mobile GTX 1080 overclocked to 2GHz, we were given some hands-on time with an impressive range of Pascal-based notebooks from Acer, Asus, EVGA, HP, MSI, and Razer.
New Retro Arcade: Neon is striving to be one of the most accurate recreations yet of the so called ‘Golden Age of Arcade Gaming’ with its heavy emphasis on ’80s and early ’90s nostalgia. Featuring a multitude of configurable emulator-based coin-op cabinets and consoles like SNES and Gameboy (respectively called ‘Cartridges’ and ‘Gamebro’ for obvious legal reasons) alongside a healthy serving of arcade classics like air hockey, bowling and skee ball—Neon has undoubtedly rebuilt an important piece of gaming history, and all beautifully rendered in virtual reality. But before you pop on your Power Glove and open up a can of Tab, there are some clear limitations to the platform that may hinder your on your quest to relive the Reagan/Thatcher era of arcade gaming.
Warner Bros. Entertainment are finally giving the world a glimpse at Batman’s first official foray into virtual reality, Batman: Arkham VR, first shown at E3 this year, and teased here alongside fan reactions to their time with the PSVR exclusive experience.
