We’re excited to announce that the Voices of VR podcast by Kent Bye will now be syndicated through Road to VR. Kent began his journey in May, 2014, seeking to catalog the insights of experts working in the core of the virtual reality industry. With more than 200 episodes released, Kent’s podcast is an ever-growing repository of VR knowledge.
VR Launchpad, presented by SVVR and Road to VR, is the startup showcase for virtual reality companies. Applications for startups and entrepreneurs have been extended to October 7th. Apply today for an invitation to pitch before a crowd of investors and media in Mountain View, CA.
Microsoft have just dropped word of a special Windows 10 event focussing on devices built around the new OS, stating that “We have some exciting news to share”, seemingly about their augmented reality device, HoloLens.
It’s perhaps easy to forget that Project Morpheus, now known as PlayStation VR, would be ‘just another VR headset’ were it not for the vision and talent of Sony’s UK game developers and designers. It’s appropriate then that they’re now set to keynote at the UK’s VRTGO conference in Gateshead on November 12th.
DeathTolls VR experience is a chilling visualization of the enormity of human loss created through various violent conflicts and disasters throughout the world, and aims to help quantify this loss by presenting the user with a field of the deceased.
The NFL seems to be acquainting itself with the idea of VR in their new video for NFL Next, the association’s name for the bevy of technology they’re adopting to help revolutionize the game. The second promo reel was released as somewhat of speculative head-scratcher that makes us wonder if there might be some NFL VR content around the corner.
I’m a big fan of games which just allow you to enjoy the mechanics of a game space. Give me a virtual room, objects and some well implemented physics and I’ll get lost in my own sandboxed world, as if a 5 year old again. GTFO (Gravitational Testing Facility & Observations) for the HTC Vive looks to be shaping up to be one of those games.
There are few games which stir gaming passions or memories as strong as Half-Life 2. Valve’s Source Engine powered sequel was a masterpiece of emergent first person shooter design and ushered in a new era of gaming for many. Well, you can now explore the opening environments of this beloved title, gloriously up-rezzed via Epic’s cutting-edge Unreal Engine 4 in virtual reality, courtesy of one industrious 3D artist.
In another in a series of articles, Noah Nelson reports from the annual Online News Association’s meeting and ponders the future of virtual reality journalism, and it’s probably not holograms (at least not yet).
Jack McCauley worked as VP of Engineering at Oculus, joining the company in the early days back in 2012. No longer with the company but continuing on with various engineering projects, McCauley is teasing some Lighthouse-like tracking technology that he says will be “great for VR and a step in the right direction.”
Fove CEO Yuka Kojima made a splash on the September cover of Forbes Japan.
Smash Hit is a gaze-based shooter from Mediocre Games that has you breaking glass barriers in a futuristic, but deceptively simple environment. Use your glass-smashing metal orbs wisely, because when you run out, that’s the end of your forward journey through the bowels of the Technicolor 5th dimension.
A mainstay of US TV for years, The Late Show has joined the ranks of mainstream media outlets to feature VR on their show, and then tak the piss out of it. Exploring the recent news that CNN will be broadcasting the live democratic presidential candidate debate in VR, powered by NextVR technology, Colbert dons a Gear VR headset to see what all the fuss is about.
