At Engadget Expand 2014 in NYC I got to take a look at Fove, a head mounted display with integrated eye-tracking. This is an older prototype made some time ago, but demonstrates the core technology and potential benefits of eye-tracking in an HMD.
A project that started life as an exercise in 3DS Max height mapping, had now grown into a full-fledged virtual reality recreation. Step into Deckard’s apartment, as featured in the 1982 Sci-fi classic Blade Runner.
One of the most unlikely ambassadors for virtual reality gaming to come out of Indiecade’s 2013 VR Jam contest, Dumpy Going Elephants has now been released in it’s first DK2 compatible version.
There’s absolutely one constant with virtual reality, it’s a medium that provides an experience that cannot be adequately described. You have you be shown to understand what good VR feels like. It’s a sentiment developer of VR shooter Z0NE took to heart when he headed to Comic-con armed with an Oculus Rift DK2 and a healthy dose of front.
The 1st official virtual reality meetup in Long Beach was hosted at California State University Long Beach on November 4th, 2014 which brought together people from all over the West Coast. LBVR’s foundation is one built on the cross-section of nearby virtual reality communities and glimpses into where the local VR revolution is headed.
Leap has made available a new bundle which will save developers $10 when buying the Leap Motion controller and corresponding VR mount for the Oculus Rift VR headset.
After raising just over $55,000 with the assistance of online crowdfunding, the Chinese mechanical exoskeleton company Dexta Robotics has canceled the Dexmo campaign on Kickstarter.
Time flies when you’re having fun. It’s been 3 years since Ben Lang first set up a website to chart and document the long road to virtual reality. And whilst we’re not prone to sentimentality or navel gazing here, to celebrate our third birthday we’re going to indulge in a spot of both and take a look back at the last 3 incredible years of the amazingly promising industry of virtual reality.
Developer Reload Studios, made up of former Infinity Ward employees, creators of the mighty Call of Duty franchise, has shared details of its plans to produce a VR focussed first person shooter targeting VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift.
Avegant, creators of the Glyph head mounted display, have announced the closing of a series A funding round of $9.37 million lead by Intel Capital and NHN Investment, including funding from rap artist Snoop Dogg. The company says that the funds will be used to “help carry Avegant through its manufacturing milestones” for the company’s HMD which was funded through Kickstarter in early 2014.
The VR Philly Meetup is holding its third gathering in Philadelphia tomorrow, Wednesday, November 5th. Amidst VR demos, networking, and probably a few pizzas, presentations from VisiSonics and Adebayo Adejare will ensue.
Nimble Sense and Riftmax Theater both launched Kickstarter campaigns recently and both are going well. Nimble Sense has passed its goal with plenty of time remaining, and Riftmax Theater is closing in on their 7th stretch goal.
A developer named Markus Lipp has created a spectacular space demonstration for the Oculus Rift that can help you wrap your head around just how big the universe really is. It’s called UniverseVR and utilizes data taken from the Millennium Simulation Project to recreate the vast expanse that is our own universe.
I just stepped out of what may as well have been a time machine. NewRetroArcade uses gaming’s newest technology to take players back to a classic arcade of yore, replete with playable arcade machines buzzing and blinking in a battle for your attention, mini games like bowling and darts, and an attention to detail that works synergistically with the transportive power of the Oculus Rift. Did I mention that this all comes at the compelling price of completely free?
