BigScreen is a new VR application which brings you and your computer into a shared virtual space with your friends. The company is today leaving stealth to announce the closing of a seed round and that former Convrge creator Hayden Lee is joining the team as a co-founder.
PresenZ, a software solution that creates pre-rendered CGI VR scenes, is now able to render realistic reflections that have accurate depth and parallax just like those in the real world.
Frontier Developments, makers of Elite Dangerous, today announced that the open-Universe space sim will be supporting Oculus Rift on day one of its March 28th launch. The good news: if you already own the game, you’ll be getting Oculus support for free.
Oculus has recently released an intuitive learning tool for developers and designers looking to get into the medium. While it can be useful in wrapping your head around the do’s and don’ts of VR design, Oculus maintains that the info presented in the Sample Framework for Unity is more of a helping hand in exploring your options.
Take a wander into SteamVR’s neon-infused window on the real world whilst in VR, utilising the HTC Vive Pre’s front-facing camera in this video which takes a thorough look at the feature.
Dioselin Gonzalez is a senior VR engineer at Unity Labs who is working on bringing VR creation tools to the masses. Project “Carte Blanche” will be launching sometime in 2017 and will be targeting desktop VR consumers with an Oculus Touch or HTC Vive who are not programmers. I had a chance to catch up with Dioselin at Unity’s VR/AR Vision Summit where she talked about these next-generation VR authoring tools.
Oculus today announced a number of new social features and two multiplayer games coming to Samsung’s Gear VR headset this week. Among the new features is Facebook 360 video integration and private rooms in Oculus Social.
Announced initially back in September, Oculus is bringing the ever-popular Minecraft to both the Rift and Gear VR. Next week at GDC 2016 we’ll get our first glimpse of the game’s mobile version.
Raw Data is heading to the HTC Vive, launching soon as an Early-access title. A new trailer shows the game’s sci-fi action combat.
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Owlchemy Labs‘ Job Simulator was recently announced to be one of the bundled games to be included with the HTC Vive, and it’s also going to be a launch title for the Sony PlayStation VR as well as for Oculus Touch. I had a chance to catch up with Alex Schwartz and Devin Reimer at the Unity VR/AR Vision Summit to talk about developing across all of the major VR platforms, the magic of hand presence, and the range of behaviors they’ve seen when given an open world physics sandbox.
CasinoVR, a free online casino, has today announced the general availability of its Gear VR app. Now cross-compatible with Oculus Rift dev kits, the social casino is making its inaugural launch into mobile VR with the help of SideloadVR, an app that allows you to download and share Gear VR content without going through the Oculus Store.
Tracking is the foundation of great virtual reality. Knowing the position and orientation of the user’s head is essential to being able to move the virtual world convincingly around them as they move through it. Oculus and Valve/HTC have the leading tracking systems (dubbed ‘Constellation’ and ‘Lighthouse’, respectively), but soon a new entrant could join the VR tracking arena.
