Road to VR

Exclusive: New P.O.L.L.E.N Gameplay Highlights Eerie Visuals and Intriguing Puzzles

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Sep 18, 2015

POLLEN is an upcoming first-person sci-fi puzzle exploration game produced by Finland based Mindfield Games. Taking you to the far-off research station on the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, you follow an ominous quest to explore a mysterious time-bending phenomenon that has taken hold of the space station. This exclusive new gameplay footage gives a short glimpse into the type of gameplay and atmosphere you can expect from the game when it arrives next year for virtual reality headsets.

VRCHIVE is a 360 Image Sharing Platform for VR’s Renaissance

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Sep 18, 2015

vrchive-featured — Photo courtesy Aaron D. Priest

VRCHIVE is a “content distribution platform” for 360-degree images; in other words, it is a hosting service that allows users, be they professional photographers or VR laymen, to view and show monoscopic and stereoscopic spherical images.

ABC News VR is Here, First Report from Syria is Powered by JauntVR

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Sep 18, 2015

ABC News announced the release of a VR experience now available on Jaunt VR’s iOS and Android apps. The video follows ABC News’ Alexander Marquardt as he reports on curatorial efforts to preserve endangered antiquities in Damascus, Syria, the capital of the country that has been embroiled in both a civil war and a fight against ISIS for some four years. ISIS in particular has repeatedly targeted and destroyed culturally and historically significant sites in Syria.

AltspaceVR Launches New SDK to Promote Social VR Application Development

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Sep 18, 2015

AltspaceVR have had a hell of a week. As part of their ongoing ‘Social Week’ the company have made some big announcements, Gear VR support and cross platform capabilities with the addition of HTC Vive support. Now, the company have revealed a new Software Development Kit, which they’ve designed to make “…creating VR applications simple for developers”.

‘Metal Gear Solid’ Creator Hideo Kojima Tries PlayStation VR and Oculus Touch at TGS

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Sep 18, 2015

Video-gaming legends stepping into the world of VR is always a popular topic, and they don’t come much bigger than Hideo Kojima, the mind behind the long running and fabulously successful Metal Gear franchise.

Using Three.js to Create Social VR Applications with AltspaceVR’s JavaScript SDK

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Sep 17, 2015

The new JavaScript SDK from AltspaceVR is going to allow front-end web developers to quickly and easily create social VR applications. The AltspaceVR SDK is based upon three.js, which means that developers can create a WebVR-enabled application on the web, and then bring up that experience from a Chromium browser within AltspaceVR and have a fully immersive VR experience that is aware of the other people within Altspace.

Rothenberg Ventures Invests $1 Million Across 10 New VR Startups in ‘River’ Program

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Sep 17, 2015

San Francisco based VC firm Rothenberg Ventures has announced the second class of their ‘River’ program, which includes $1 million of investment capital across 10 new VR startups. With this second class the firm has also expanded the scope of the River program to include other companies in the realm of ‘frontier tech’.

PlayStation VR is Coming to EGX 2015, Book Your Demo Slot from Friday 18th September

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Sep 17, 2015

EGX, the UK’s biggest gaming show is just around the corner – running for 4 days starting 24th September – and Sony’s newly christened PlayStation VR will be there – but if you want to try it, make sure you ready this.

Sony Confirms New 90Hz Display Mode for PlayStation VR (formerly Morpheus)

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Sep 17, 2015

Sony wowed us back in March when they announced a 120Hz display mode on the latest version of the PlayStation VR headset (formerly known as ‘Project Morpheus’), the fastest available on any of the ‘big three’ consumer VR headsets soon to hit the market. Now the company has confirmed that a new 90Hz display option will be available, giving developers more flexibility for their target framerates.

New ‘Foxhole’ HTC Vive Concept Footage Released from The Virtual Dutchmen

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Sep 17, 2015

The Virtual Dutchmen, a Netherlands based VR studio, has come out with a second video showing their HTC Vive concept Foxhole.

SpaceVR’s Second Kickstarter Raises More Than $40k in First Six Days

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Sep 17, 2015

SpaceVR, the Ryan Holmes-founded San Francisco startup that wants to build a 360-degree video platform for space footage, has re-launched its Kickstarter geared towards putting its VR camera Overview One on the Cupola module of the International Space Station (ISS).

‘The Ark’ 360 VR Documentary, the Story of the Planet’s Most Endangered Species

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Sep 17, 2015

From the makers of the award-winning documentary Empire comes a 360 degree documentary that aims to put you face-to-face with the most endangered species on the planet: the northern white rhinoceros.

Valve’s Alan Yates Slams Spherical Photos and Video, “They Basically Suck!”

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Sep 17, 2015

Alan Yates, who somewhat euphemistically identifies himself as “Chief Pharologist” at Valve Corporation, is one of the minds behind Valve’s laser based motion tracking technology, Lighthouse, used in SteamVR’s flagship HTC Vive VR headset and controllers. It seems the hardware engineer has no love for the wealth of 360 videos and photos flooding into the VR space right now, and he wasn’t afraid to share his honest opinion on the subject.

‘Deus Ex’ Creator Warren Spector Has U-Turned on VR, “I’ve started to come around”

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Sep 17, 2015

One of the most respected game developers in the business, Warren Spector, has been a fairly vocal critic of virtual reality’s recent resurgence of late. But in a recent interview, the Deus Ex creator says he’s changed his mind and that “You may see me dabbling in VR yet”.

5 Days at SIGGRAPH 2015, My Virtual Reality Highlights

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Sep 16, 2015

Frank He digs into his journal to bring us his favourite moments from SIGGRAPH 2015, where virtual reality’s presence was stronger than ever before (pun intended).

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