After a very brief and accidental release last week, ILMxLab’s trailer for the Star Wars experience subtitled ‘Trials on Tatooine’ – a room-scale experiment in the Star Wars universe – is here and we’ve got the full trailer for you.
OptiTrack are well known in industry circles for their specialist motion capture technology, but at GDC this year, the company is turning its attention to wide area virtual reality experiences as it puts it tracking technology to task in a new interactive virtual reality basketball experience at GDC.
Earlier today a media leak confirmed the existence of a new untethered VR and AR headset from Sulon and AMD, known currently as the ‘Q’. Now, a video demonstration has appeared which may show that hardware in use.
Rebellion, the developers behind the VR hover tank title Battlezone, have released a new trailer with fresh footage of the games single player campaign and revealed more details on how the game will play.
Already known primarily for their endeavours in augmented virtual reality headsets, Sulon now look to have partnered with GPU manufacturer AMD to produce what they call “the world’s first and only all-in-one, tether-free, “wear and play” headset for VR, AR and spatial computing.”
Untethered Android mobile VR headset developer GameFace Labs has today announced an eclectic group of new hires from the world of gaming and hardware hacking. Ex Sony London Studio Head David Ranyard, infamous iPhone ans PS3 hacker George Hotz (aka Geohot) and Ex Mojang developer Ryan Holtz are to join the company.
Samsung’s to bring a new set of experimental headphones to SXSW that uses electrical impulses to fool your inner ear into thinking your body is physically moving. What’s more, they seem to be pitching the new headgear for virtual reality use alongside the company’s Gear VR headset.
HTC Vive title Fantastic Contraption has flaunted its room-scale credentials to impressive effect in various mixed reality videos. Now, the team from Radial Games and Northway Games demonstrate you can enjoy the title just fine as a seated ‘desk scale’ experience by producing a video which demonstrates just that.
In this episode of the Rev VR Podcast, I am joined by my good pals over at the Left-Handed VR Podcast, Bob (aka Coznefx), Jason (aka Apieceoffruit, and Matt (aka Holotape). We discuss GDC, STEM, Lighthouse occlusion, Hover Junkers, and much more.
VRChat was one of the first social VR applications, and they’ve been holding regular virtual meetups for the past couple of years. VRChat has a Social SDK that allows Unity developers to add social functionality, and so their metopes have been focusing on doing guided tours and group explorations of user-generated worlds. I had a chance to talk to co-founder Jesse Joudrey who had a lot of really interesting insights about the unique qualities of the VR medium to be able to facilitate these types of shared experiences where the narrative is created through the multitude of shared perspectives. VRChat wants to push the boundaries of being able to explore surreal worlds while still maintaining a suspension of disbelief that’s helped with social presence.
In what’s being widely called the “Year of VR”, GDC 2016 will be the first major battle in the War For Your Head. VR headset frontrunners Oculus and HTC/Valve are due to begin shipping the Rift and Vive in less than a month, with Sony’s PlayStation VR coming not far behind. Three headsets, three platforms, and each of them wanting to win the right to be worn by you.
Valve today confirmed the existence of SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode which will effectively allow players to play any game from their Steam library inside of VR on big virtual display.
With major consumer VR headsets on the precipice of shipping, NVIDIA’s has put virtual reality among the top focuses of their annual GTC conference coming next month.
Samsung is celebrating the launch of their latest Galaxy S7 line of smartphones in Spain with a special Madrid event featuring ‘Gear VR Theater’, a shared ‘4D’ 360 video experience comprising multiple headsets and multiple synced motion platforms.
This is Tactical Haptics’ latest tech demo in action, a VR painting application designed to show off the capabilities of their skin stretching Reactive Grip force feedback technology integrated with the HTC Vive’s SteamVR motion controllers.
