That pinball-playing street gang you joined for protection as a kid (‘The Pinball Wizards’, duh) have laughed at you your whole life. Why? You never owned your very own pinball machine! Ok. The premise is bad, but the pinball machine creation tool that Pinball Labs wants to provide pinball enthusiasts is good. Oh so good.
HTC’s CEO Cher Wang has gone on record stating that one of the reasons for the recently announced delay to the release of the Steam VR powered HTC Vive VR headset was to incorporate the latest “very, very big technological breakthrough”.
Psytec Games, the developers behind grid-based VR dungeon crawler Crystal Rift, have announced a big update to their Early Access release of the game, stating that all content planned for release is now present.
NVIDIA recently announced the first steps towards supporting foveated rendering with Multi-Res Shading as well as VR SLI integration in Unreal Engine 4. I talked with Nvidia’s Tony Tamasi, the senior vice president of content and technology, at the VRX Conference about the company’s GamesWorks VR and VR specific features like Direct to Rift support, Nvidia’s research into advanced lightfield display technologies, and some of the unique graphics challenges that virtual reality has posed to GPU manufacturers.
Road to VR and AVADirect are pleased to announce the launch of Exemplar, a high-end VR gaming PC designed for those who want to push the limits of immersion. Available starting today, Exemplar is made for VR enthusiasts who won’t settle for minimum specifications.
Having been delayed until April 2016, the HTC Vive consumer headset is still under wraps. But these images, supposedly sourced from an accidental leak, may give us a clue as to what we can expect from the forthcoming 2nd Vive developer kits, recently announced to be on their way.
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting theaters tomorrow, the ILM-created Star Wars Jakku Spy is now fully unlocked for your Google Cardboard viewer on Android or iOS.
Disney has officially released the 3D trailer to Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) along with a number of 3D photos through a new web-based VR experience. Star Wars fans looking to get the full 3D effect just need a smartphone and Google Cardboard.
Sony is no stranger to virtual reality, having a long history of exploring the technology throughout the years. Sony’s ‘Magic Lab’ Director, Richard Marks, tells me about the company’s history with VR and the development of PlayStation VR.
Convrge, the social VR platform known for ease of use and low poly style, is officially opening their Gear VR beta on Saturday, Dec 19. To add to the news, the team behind Convrge has also revealed that they have recently taken part in a fellowship program run by Y Combinator, one of the most prestigious incubators in the world.
Mozilla today released A-Frame, an open source library for creating virtual reality web experiences without having to know the powerful (but complex) WebGL. Designed for web developers, A-Frame aims to make it easy to create high-performance and responsive virtual reality experiences that run right out of your browser.
