The second generation SteamVR development kit, the HTC Vive Pre, was unveiled at CES in January and included numerous enhancements. Valve have now announced that the new Pre systems are on their way to developers.
The team behind FOVE, the premier eye-tracking VR headset launched on Kickstarter, recently released a showing some pretty spectacular applications for the device, namely foveated rendering and real-time depth-of-field.
Buying a new toy to go with your iPhone on Apple’s online store? Now you can toss in a View-Master Virtual Reality Starter Pack with your purchase.
VR Karts: Sprint, the multiplayer cart racing game for Gear VR, has just pushed an update that adds a number of new tracks to the game’s online multiplayer.
VR World congress (VRWC) is a new, UK based virtual reality event aiming to highlight the latest and greatest from the rapidly growing VR scene. For the inaugural event, virtual reality ‘Auteurs’ Kite & Lightning will be present to debut their latest project ‘Bebylon: Battle Royale‘.
Project Sansar from Second Life creator Linden Lab is a new virtual world, built for virtual reality which promises world building tools capable of generating scenes like the one featured here which was created in “just a few hours”.
The 2016 Vision VR/AR Summit focuses on immersive technologies and in its inaugural year is boasting quite a long list of luminaries as part its line up. This year, alongside addresses from Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, Clay Bavor, Vice President of Virtual Reality at Google and Dr. Richard Marks, Director of the PlayStation Magic Lab, there’ll also be a rare appearance from Valve’s Gabe Newell, giving a special address via video.
Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here’s what it looks like.
For the past year, Devon Dolan has been trying to make sense of the interactive storytelling landscape that’s possible within virtual reality. He comes from a world of story where he’s currently an associate at Cinetic Media, which is a well-known and very respected strategic advisory company within the world of independent film. Cinetic has brokered distribution deals for Sundance hits ranging from Little Miss Sunshine to Napoleon Dynamite. Devon recently collaborated with Michael Parets on an essay that proposes a framework to categorize VR stories into four distinct categories. Their original Medium piece was recently expanded upon in Techcrunch, and I had a chance to catch up with Devon at Sundance where we further elucidated and simplified their 4-quadrant framework for VR storytelling.
Social VR platform AltspaceVR today announced the general release of their Gear VR app—now making their software cross-compatible with both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
It came as quite a surprise at Oculus’ developer conference back in September that Minecraft would come to support the Oculus Rift CV1 and Gear VR. And while that gives players something to look forward to as the Rift approaches its launch, the path that it took to get it there was full of twists and turns.
Microsoft has splashed out on a promotional video designed to demonstrate its vision of a Super Bowl future, augmented by its untethered, augmented reality headset HoloLens, demonstrating how it could used in the home to enhance the football viewing experience.
The works of Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei have been featured in exhibitions all around the world, and now you can step into the mind of the man himself with the new Ai Weiwei 360 experience.
You only need 10 minutes with a keyboard and mouse set-up to find out that moving around in VR is completely different from anything else in gaming. Here we take a look at some of the techniques developers are using to put you into VR, not only so you can feel like you’re somewhere else, but so you won’t be nauseous when you start exploring.
