Come April, Oculus will hold a Mobile VR Jam with prizes totaling $1 million. The company is incentivizing the creation of virtual reality games and experiences for the Samsung Gear VR headset, which Samsung built in collaboration with Oculus.
Tactical Haptics is coming back to this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco to give a fresh demo of their haptic controller, Reactive Grip. The device aims to give popular motion tracking devices a more immersive feel for in-game object manipulation, adding a level of tactile feedback that goes beyond gamepad rumble packs.
After the surprise announcement that Valve would be revealing a “SteamVR Dev Kit” at next week’s GDC 2015, yet another huge entrant may be about to join the virtual reality arena. The company is reportedly on the verge of revealing a “Titan VR” headset, and may do so at an event next week during GDC.
Gaming giant Valve has announced that they’ll be revealing a “previously-unannounced SteamVR hardware system” at GDC 2015. The company has been actively engaged in R&D in the AR/VR space but hasn’t previously broken into the hardware market. This new information makes it look like they might be gearing up to do just that.
Convrge, a social VR platform for the Oculus Rift, has been steadily building out its virtual space to enable multiplayer VR experiences. The latest version of the platform adds a shared movie screen for group viewings and additional space to the map.
Several folks emailed me and asked, “Where is the podcast with the Apollo 11 developers!?” Great idea. I reached out to the developers, David and Sandra Whelan, and Drash, to talk about their hot new Kickstarter campaign.
Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift, has preempted any rumors that Oculus might be showing a first-party VR input solution at the upcoming GDC 2015 in March.
SVVR and SFVR invite you to the second-annual GDC VR Mixer on Thursday, March 5 from 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM in downtown San Francisco. This time, we’ve booked a 20,000 sq. ft. venue to showcase the newest virtual reality technology while making sure you have plenty of space to socialize. Best of all, it’s only two blocks from GDC.
Epic Games is offering developers a “no strings attached” piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are built in and around the company’s game engine, Unreal Engine 4.
When I opened my eyes I suddenly found myself in an art gallery that had been transformed into a full-blown party with thumping music, bright red helium balloons pulling at the furniture, and a menagerie of life forms, humanoid and fantastical, chatting and flitting about.
Technical Illusions, the company behind the CastAR augmented reality glasses, have just revealed a new promo video showing their vision of an augmented home.
GDC is once again upon us, and on March 2-6 the people responsible for creating the games we love come together at the Moscone Center in San Francisco to talk shop. This year, virtual reality dominates the conference agenda. Here’s what we’re looking forward to.
On the tail of their newly granted patent for a mobile head mounted display, Apple is continuing to search for new hires that would bring augmented and virtual reality experience to the company.
The developers of [NUREN] The New Renaissance have released a demo of their feature-length virtual reality music experience, showing a segment that reminds me of just why I got into this VR business in the first place: dancing robot girls and space ships.
