The wireless motion controllers, designed for virtual reality input, the Sixense STEM system has had a rocky road since its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign concluded. Design issues and seemingly insurmountable FCC certification problems meant the date which backers could look forward to receiving their units kept being pushed back. Now it seems there is light at the end of the tunnel, in a new Kickstarter update sent to backers.
Well, this has been a small roller-coaster. First the new UE4 Redux of acclaimed mystery adventure The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, did have VR support out of the box, then the developer admitted this was a mistake and now it’s been removed – along with a note from the developer as to why.
As with every major event, Oculus have launched a mobile application to assist you organise your time at the forthcoming Connect 2 conference. The new app update allows you to check in to identify to your fellow developers you’re going so they can get in touch along with maps, schedules and planners to help you get the most of the 2 day developer conference.
Six game industry artists converged on NVIDIA’s booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently to take part in an art contest using Google’s VR painting program, Tilt Brush. You could win a NVIDIA’s flagship VR-ready GPU, the GTX 980 Ti, just by voting for your favorite.
AltspaceVR today announced that the social VR platform will be receiving official support for HTC Vive, the first consumer VR headset to integrate large-scale positional tracking.
For many, the modern era of consumer virtual reality is exciting and new. There’s a palpable pioneering spirit shared by denizens of the rapidly growing industry who want to harness VR technology to do amazing things—world changing things. But there are those to whom this feeling is one of déjà vu.
At Sony’s Tokyo Games Show conference this morning, the company revealed its vision for consumer VR powered by a console – it’s now known as Playstation VR. But there were also some glimpses at what we can expect, in the Japanese market at least, from games being launched for the new virtual reality platform.
Sony’s Tokyo Games Show press conference is over, and the big news is that Project Morpheus as we knew it will now be known as Playstation VR. Subsequent to that announcement, Sony have released a promo video which gives an intersting insight into how they’re approaching the marketing of this new platform as part of the Playstation brand.
Madis Vasser is a psychology student at University of Tartu Virtual Neuroscience Lab, and he collaborated with the computer science department to create a VR toolbox for doing experimental psychology research. He was showing off a demo of a change blindness experiment that he created within Unity at the IEEE VR conference.
At a press conference at the Tokyo Games Show in Japan, Sony just announced that it’s virtual reality device for the Playstation 4 will be officially called ‘Playstation VR’
In a recent Facebook post, Production I.G the animation house behind many anime movies, have announced a 360 3D Ghost in the Shell spin off named Virtual Reality Diver, and it’ll make it’s first appearance at this week’s Tokyo Game Show.
AltspaceVR today announced a Samsung Gear VR version of the social VR platform, which will hypothetically allow anyone with the mobile VR headset and an internet connection to talk online face to face.
NVIDIA’s booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming to the soon-to-release HTC Vive headset.
Virtual reality pushes the capabilities of computers like no other current technology; putting a 3D world in front of you and making it interactive requires a lot of power. But the payoff? A new medium that directly engages with you, multiplying your perspective and allowing a new kind of empathy. Phil Chen, Chief Content Officer of HTC’s Vive, is working to intensify that experience by stressing interactivity—not just putting you into a virtual world, but encouraging you to engage with it. You can stick your head inside a jet engine or walk inside your own brain.
Photo storage and sharing giant Flickr is taking a step into the virtual soon if early plans for VR integration on their service reach fruition. According to Engadget, the site plans to introduce a VR button, which allows the viewing of immersive photography (i.e. 360 photos) in your favourite virtual reality headset.
