‘VR Camp’ Coming to Burning Man Festival, Kickstarter Now Live
Burning Man, a week-long festival in the Black Rock Desert that showcases the weird and wonderful, will be getting a VR Camp—an enclave of VR enthusiasts that should find themselves at home among the unbound imagination and psychedelia that often shows up at the annual festival.
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – July #4
WEARVR and Road to VR are joining forces this month to bring you VR goodness from the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. This video gives a glimpse of the top 10 most popular experiences from the last week.
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Adrenapure Helicopter Demo – Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows), Android
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Gigatron Hell Ride Song – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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HellEvation – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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Steampuff VR – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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Car Car Crash – Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows)
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Martello Tower Z – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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Yana Virtual Relaxation – Rift DK2 (Windows), Gear VR, Android
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Levitate – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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Formula C – Rift DK2 (Windows)
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EXPERIENCE BALI – Island of the Gods – Rift DK1/DK2 (Windows/Mac)
Which is your favorite?
Interested in listing your app on WEARVR? The company encourages you to reach out to info@wearvr.com. In the next few weeks they’ll allow developers to manage their own listings and upload files directly.
YouTube Confirms Stereo 3D 360 Video Support Coming ‘Soon’
After recently adding support for 360 degree videos to YouTube, the company now says that 360 + stereoscopic 3D video support is on the way. The streaming service currently supports 360 or 3D videos, but not both together.
2016 Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders Makes 360 Video Appearance
U.S. Senator (D) and presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders yesterday made a VR appearance at a fund raising event captured by Los Angeles based 360 studio Virtuality Lab.
‘Kat Walk’ Joins the VR Treadmill Race, Approaching $100,000 Goal on Kickstarter
Joining longstanding names Virtuix and Cyberith, Kat Walk hopes to be the newest VR treadmill option on the block. The system differentiates itself with an open design that suspends users from above instead of using a support ring around the waist.
This Fan-made Star Wars VR Trailer Makes us Want an Official Title from the Franchise
Piloting vehicles, taking down infamous foes, and wielding lightsabers in one of sci-fi’s most iconic franchises? The Star Wars universe offers an array of memorable and heroic experiences that we only wish we could live ourselves. VR technology could make that a reality and the folks from Hammerhead VR have whipped up a proof-of-concept of what it might look like.
Leap Motion Offering up $50,000 in 2015 3D Jam with Dedicated AR/VR Track
Leap Motion has announced that they’ll be hosting their second 3D Jam this year, a developer competition to spur the creation of experiences making use of the company’s motion input controller. Once again the company has laid out a $50,000 prize pool and this year they’ve dedicated more than half of that to AR/VR content.
VFX Studio Hive Division Shows off Their Custom VR Camera Rig ‘Panoptikon’
Hive Division, an Italy based VFX studio, have teamed up with VR multimedia and marketing solutions provider InVRsion to create a very curious looking custom VR camera rig.
‘Big Data VR Challenge’ $20,000 Grand Prize Winner Revealed by Epic Games and Wellcome Trust
Epic Games and Wellcome Trust revealed at Develop:Brighton that the winner of the Big Data VR Challenge—claiming a grand prize of $20,000—is LumaPie.
Oculus Connect 2 Registration and Talk Submissions Now Open
Oculus have just announced that registration for their second show dedicated to all things Oculus, ‘Connect 2’, is now open.
The HTC Vive is Coming to Gamescom 2015, Register Now to Try it
The HTC Vive is on the move. As part of the company’s ‘World Tour’, they’re bringing their Steam VR flagship VR headset to Cologne, Germany so that attendees of Gamescom can see what all the fuss is about.
