Thomas Kadlec, the talented developer behind the impressive Star Trek Voyager Bridge VR experience, has turned his attention to his own sci-fi creation in the form of a new project which aims to fuse the mechanics of FTL with eye-catching production design – Ghost Vector.
Penrose Studios have unveiled their second VR film Alumette at the Sundance Festival and Road to VR‘s Chris Madsen went hands-on with a virtual reality experience which he found evoked real empathy with the inhabitants of its beautiful, virtual world.
The Sundance Festival is well under way and VR is front and centre at the events New Frontier initiative. To mark the event they’re launching a new Google Cardboard application built by immersive media company IM360.
Scott Broock, one of Jaunt’s earliest members, has left the company to join as YouTube’s ‘Global VR Evangelist’.
Reggie Watts was at Sundance showing off his first 360-degree video VR experience called Waves, which is a surreal trip into his imagination. It’s one of the most quirky and entertaining 360 videos I’ve seen, and could be described as a dream within a dream that’s jam packed with special effects, music, philosophy, and humor. It turns out that Reggie is a huge VR geek who first tried out Dactyl Nightmare in the mid-90s, and has been fascinated VR ever since. I was able to catch up with Reggie at the Sundance New Frontier lounge to learn about his journey into VR and where he’d like to go next. You can watch Waves on Milk VR’s Sundance channel until Feb. 12, and then it’ll likely be available through WEVR.
Valve’s ‘Lighthouse’ tracking system relies on an array of sensors which detect laser sweeps from the accompanying base stations. Valve has shown a glimpse of the latest iteration of the sensors which are remarkably small compared to earlier prototypes.
Futuremark, the 3D performance benchmarking company behind 3DMark, is working on VRMark, a virtual reality specific test the capabilities of your gaming PC and VR headset, using some ingenious hardware.
Starbreeze announced at VRLA’s Winter Expo yesterday project ‘Starcade’ to bring their wide FOV, high resolution in-house developed VR headset to more consumers by way of public arcade style venues. Frank He caught up with their CTO Emmanuel Marquez to find out more.
Starbreeze Studios, a videogame publisher which recently entered the VR arena with their StarVR headset, announced that they’ll be opening a VR arcade venue in Los Angeles, CA called Project StarCade. The goal of the venue is to “make premium VR experiences accessible for the masses” and showcase the company’s VR headset.
VR broadcasting company NextVR has partnered with FOX Sports to bring tonight’s Premier Boxing Champions live in virtual reality to the Gear VR headset. You can watch it for free starting at 8PM ET tonight (Saturday, January 23rd).
Are snow storms threatening your existence, your livelihood, your sanity? Well, we can’t help with that in the slightest, but we do know of some good VR beaches you can visit as the storm rages outside.
On my way out to cover VR at Sundance this week, I had a chance to try out THE VOID, one of the most advanced out-of-home VR systems today in an industrial park in the middle of Utah. The VOID goes beyond room-scale with their minimum 60×60′ stage which employs ‘redirected walking’ techniques in order to trick you into thinking you’re walking in an even larger physical space.
Oculus says that getting the Rift into “broad retail around the world” is going to be critical to the success of the Rift headset and VR in general. The company plans to have a retail presence starting in April.
