Fresh from their experiences at EGX Rezzed in London, Jon and Nick join my on the podcast to discuss, and debate their findings about the Valve/HTC Vive virtual reality solution.
Diplopia is a virtual reality title designed to provide targeted exercises for those suffering from vision issues. The team behind the application are rebranding, changing their name to Vivid Vision. Brian Hart caught up with CEO James Blaha to get up to speed on the latest in virtual reality vision therapy.
Grid Coaster is an Oculus Rift enabled roller coaster experience built on Unreal Engine 4 which wants to recall the aesthetics of 80’s sci-fi Disney classic TRON (1981).
One of the first of its kind, the SVVR Conference & Expo was borne from one of the longest running virtual reality meet up groups. Now entering its second year, 2015’s show promises to be bigger and better, moving to considerably larger digs at the San Jose Convention Center. Book your early bird ticket now and save up to $100.
The VR community has been rattling its cage for intuitive input devices for quite a while now, and because nobody really knows exactly what that means yet, we’re entertaining anything and everything until we do. Here we take a look at two Kickstarter campaigns currently in progress addressing just that: ‘Stompz’ and ‘Ground Control’, two small form factor input solutions designed to be used with those dangly useless things hiding under your desk right now (your feet).
We’re seriously excited for ADR1FT, a made-for-VR title which takes the ‘astronaut-in-peril’ themes seen in films like Gravity into the interactive realm with stunning visuals to boot. Happily, Epic Games seems to have recognised ADR1FT’s promise, awarding developer Three One Zero $15,000 one of the 3 final Unreal Developer Grants.
According to a report at Ars Technica, HTC’s VR Headset the ‘Vive’ could find its way into selected developers hands very soon for nothing. Sign-ups for the device may also begin as early as next week.
Istanbul based digital workshop Codemodeon have come up with a VR experience which adopts some clever mechanics to sell the illusion of throwing yourself out of a plane and parachuting to an island paradise.
Legendary author of 80’s cyberpunk thriller Neuromancer, a book in which he famously coined the term ‘cyberspace’, takes a spin in virtual reality courtesy of Samsung’s Gear VR. It seems he was suitably impressed.
Prolific director and producer Steven Spielberg is coming back to Warner Bros. to direct the film adaptation of Ready Player One, Ernest Cline’s lauded VR-centric novel set in a dystopian future.
On stage at Facebook’s F8 conference, the company’s CTO, Mike Schroepfer, may have just let slip a hint at the Oculus Rift release date.
Today Oculus’ Chief Scientist, Michael Abrash, will take to the stage at Facebook’s F8 conference to expound upon virtual reality. As Abrash puts it, “Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and for the rest of your life—this talk will explain why you’re going to care about virtual reality and what it means for developers.”
It has been a while since the guys from Kite & Lightning have been on the show, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t been pumping out some amazing things since we last spoke. Ikrima takes some time out of his busy day to discuss their latest projects, and the current news in VR.
Samsung is getting a bit more bold with what’s so far been a fairly soft launch for the company’s first mobile headset, Gear VR. Come March 27th, Gear VR will be available in more than 100 Best Buy locations to try and buy.
