This week Google announced Daydream, the company’s initiative for high-end mobile virtual reality. While Google didn’t reveal a dedicated dev kit, the company says developers can cobble together their own using the Nexus 6P smartphone, Cardboard, and a spare phone.
Starbreeze, the company behind the 210 degree FOV VR headset StarVR are to work with large-scale cinema specialists IMAX to create “premium location-based VR” experiences “worthy of the IMAX brand”.
Google Jump, a 360 camera system and processing software platform announced at last year’s Google I/O, is adding IMAX and Yi Technology to its roster of camera manufacturers.
When I loaded up Portal Stories: VR I was greeted with familiar sights and sounds from the Portal universe. A disembodied voice told that I was about to take part in an Aperture Science Virtual Reality Experiment, words I was absolutely thrilled to hear.
AltSpaceVR is the first cross-platform social VR application that supports both the Gear VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive. Now that all of these VR headsets have had their consumer launch, then AltSpace VR has been one of the top places in VR to have social interactions.
I had chance to catch up with Bruce Wooden (aka “Cymatic Bruce”) at SVVR 2016 to talk about what types of events they’ve been holding, what types of emergent social behaviors he’s seeing, and how they’ve been teaching VR etiquette within their welcome spaces for new users. We also talk about some of the social dynamics that occur when they mix together the full range of interaction fidelity between hand-tracked Vive, Leap Motion hands in the Rift, and just the head rotation of the Gear VR. There is a bit of a power dynamic that emerges where people with tracked hands can be more expressive and have more attention and power in a conversation, and so we talk a bit about the implications of that including whether or not it makes Gear VR users feel more like consumers than creatives, producers, or equal participants.
Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin.
Epic Games’ Kim Libreri today took to the stage at Google’s I/O conference to announce Unreal Engine support for the newly announced Daydream Android VR platform, what’s more is that it’s available right now.
Google announced it’s new initiative to make Android the choice for mobile virtual reality development with Daydream, their dedicated VR platform and ecosystem. Today, the Daydream theme continues as Google’s Clay Bavor share the company’s plans for Android virtual reality.
Google’s newly announced Daydream VR platform, an initiative that’s poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn’t exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make its own VR headset. As soon as the platform was revealed, a few new sessions at Google I/O 2016 popped up that you won’t want to miss.
Announced today at Google I/O 2016, VR team lead Clay Bavor revealed on stage that the company will be partnering with manufacturers to build Google-approved VR headsets based on an internally generated reference design. To boot, Google is also providing their new VR ecosystem with a handy Wiimote-style motion controller.
Netease Games have announced that they’re to bring a new action role playing title to Google’s newly announced Android VR ecosystem Daydream.
CCP have announced it’s to bring a new mobile VR title based in the EVE universe – Gunjack Next – to the newly announced Google Daydream Android VR platform.
Google’s newly announced ‘Daydream’ promises to raise the bar for virtual reality on Android compared to Cardboard. At I/O 2016, the company showed the first glimpse of Daydream in action.
Google may have shipped over 5 million Cardboard smartphone adapters, but it seems the company is significantly elevating their commitment to virtual reality with the announcement made today at Google I/O. Daydream, the newly revealed Android-powered VR platform, is poised to offer all of the standard Android smartphone trimmings.
Today Google announced the next major step in bringing virtual reality to Android. They’re calling it ‘Daydream’ and it’s the company’s label for high performance virtual reality. Soon, ‘Daydream Ready’ phones from leading manufacturers will enable these high quality experiences through Android.
