Clouds is a documentary of a different sort. Using real-time interactive data visualizations set as the backdrop to over 10 hours of interviews with artists, hackers, and designers—all captured as weird and wonderful point clouds—there’s no way you’ll walk out not feeling like you inner-child just experienced something out of the film Hackers (1995).
GoPro has today announced the final name and price for their forthcoming VR camera. The ‘Odyssey’, which will make use of Google’s ‘Jump’ spherical video assembler, has been priced at $15,000. The company has opened a ‘Limited Access Program’ to solicit interest in the camera; the first Odyssey cameras will ship in November to folks selected from the program.
A new Project Morpheus powered VR experience designed to promote the forthcoming Robert Zemeckis helmed movie ‘The Walk’, has you reliving the death-defying stunt featured in the movie – walking a tightrope between New York’s World Trade Center buildings as they existed in 1974.
Patrick Harris is the lead game designer at Minority Media where they’re developing a sci-fi adventure game called Time Machine VR. The premise of Time Machine VR is that humanity is facing a deadly plague from ancient times, and that best way to eradicate this disease it is to travel back in time to find the cure within the DNA of underwater dinosaurs.
Unity, the leading 3D game engine synonymous with the early days of Oculus Rift software, is due to hold its annual conference ‘Unite’ in Boston on September 22nd. As part of the event, the company will honour the best Unity based projects of the last year, with awards given to the best of the best.
ViveCraft, an experimental project from Facepunch Studios, has somewhat departed from the blocky Minecraft style and gone full Rollercoaster Tycoon in their newest video.
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Michael Block of Culture Shock Games talks about his interactive documentary VR game experience called We Are Chicago about gang violence in Chicago’s south side. It has a single ending to the story, but there are many different branching actions that are dependent upon your actions and choices throughout the experience.
Details of Oculus’ second ‘Connect’ VR developer conference are now out and hints at a new ‘Social SDK’ which it’s presumed is designed to help developers to create applications designed to being people together in VR.
John Carmack is something of a legend in the programming world with a history that’s intertwined with the early gaming industry. Now at Oculus as Chief Technical Officer, Carmack may be poised to leave a similar mark on the world of VR. A made-for-VR scripting environment of his design will be demonstrated at Oculus Connect.
Sherlock Holmes: The Wagner Ritual is clever VR adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Adventure of Musgrave Ritual’, and illuminates the text with a modern twist. Static 360 photos combined with unique rendered spaces are easy to digest for VR newcomers looking for a unique narrative experience.
VRLA Summer Expo 2015 has come and gone and was the biggest and most successful yet. AMD were platinum sponsors of this year’s event and you can now watch Roy Taylor, Corporate Vice President Alliances, take to the stage to tell the audience why AMD as a company are so excited about VR.
Road to VR‘s Chris Madsen steps into new interstellar, subterranean 360 3D thriller for Gear VR, SONAR, and finds a bleakly beautiful immersive gem of a movie. This is the first movie from Filmacademy Baden-Württemberg and looks to be a great preview of things to come from the institution.
Sightline: The Chair is a virtual reality demo designed as a sort of showcase for the technology and one we’re a big fan of. Now, developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík of has released the latest iteration and it’s packed with technical and creative updates you’ll want to see.
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
RGBverse is a constant roller platform arcade with beautiful 3d graphics, non-stop action and captivating music that will hook you within minutes and is bound to sharpen your reflexes.
You will encounter things like…
Colored energy platforms and rings
Robotic enemies coming after you
Various weapons shooting at you
Intense non-stop action
4 different game speed settings
Boss fight
9 story mode stages
30 thrilling challenge stages
Non-linear gameplay
So, what are you waiting for? Switch your color and JUMP!
“The challenge is real” – Softpedia review
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows)
Inspired by Taroko Gorge in Taiwan. Take a relaxing boat ride on calm waters through nature with this short VR tech demo.
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows)
This is Leeco Studio’s impressive first project on UE4 using 3ds Max, Marvelous Designer, Photoshop and Speedtree.
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
DinoTrek is a Virtual Reality immersive experience showing what it might have been like to live during the time of the dinosaurs! It is designed for Google Cardboard, by Geomedia, Inc. and HIVE VR.
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows/Mac)
Step right up and take a ride through the corridors of a haunted mansion. You can sit back and relax, but that’s easier said than done. It’s the haunted carnival ride you remember from your childhood, with a VR twist.
This is a short preview version, and you can experience the 1st part of the ride right now. More coming soon!
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
Follow the story of Null as he embarks on an epic adventure; In a retro VR experience previously only possible with the power of your imagination. A first-person “list and click” RPG with turn-based combat takes you back to one of yesteryear’s favorite genres; packed with all of the colorful pixels and raspy melodies of the time. Null of Hope is a full and vivid RPG experience which offers a wide variety of exciting environments, characters, monsters, items and skills. Watch your environment bend to the whims of the game, making you question where the game ends and the real world begins. Designed from concept for virtual reality, Null of Hope is poised to be the definitive retro VR experience, challenged only by the nostalgic memories of your past.
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
“The Hum:Abductions – VR Proof of Concept” is a VR experience created – by Totwise Studios – to share with you a first insight of their efforts creating The Hum:Abductions – the alien abduction horror game in which they are working. You will take the role of a man who will discover the terrible situation of his family, while beginning a journey to the unknown. This Proof of Concept is not intended to show actual gameplay features from the final game
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
Flying Aces VR is a flight sim/combat game set during World War 1. Take to the skies and experience the birth and rise of aerial combat during the Great War (1914-1918). Develop and test your piloting, gunning and bombing skills in structured missions, and lead your side to victory from above!
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
A beautiful demo from a small VR content company based in Israel. This was made for one of their clients to show the advantages of virtual reality real estate tours as a sales catalyst.
Platforms: Oculus Rift DK2 (Windows)
Did you wake up this morning with an urge to view all eight Starship Enterprise models in glorious virtual reality? We thought so….
This is just a fun little project thrown together by a Star Trek fan. Each of the ships is the correct size relative to one another, but their scale is set to 1:100.
See Also: Preview – ‘Enterprises’ a VR History of Star Trek’s Most Beloved Ship
Platforms: Rift DK2 (Windows)
