Björk Releases ‘Vulnicura Virtual Reality Album’, A Collection of Immersive Music Videos
The perennially avant-garde singer-songwriter Björk has brought her entire 2015 album, Vulnicura, to virtual reality. Available today, headset owners can finally get to dive into a collection of immersive music videos that only previously graced museums worldwide via the...
Immersive Social Platform ‘VRChat’ Raises $10 Million in Venture Capital
VRChat announced today that it has closed a $10 million Series C investment to continue expanding its immersive social platform which is steeped in user-generated content.
VRChat is an immersive social platform that allows VR and non-VR users to socialize...
‘Trover Saves the Universe’ to Get Free ‘Cosmic Jobs’ DLC in October
Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland loves VR, and his latest VR game, Trover Saves the Universe (2019), is getting its first DLC drop next month.
Called 'Trover's Important Cosmic Jobs', the free DLC is headed to all supported platforms...
Small Form Factor Locomotion Device ‘VRGO Mini’ Surpasses Kickstarter Goal
Bristol, UK-based designer Joe Ryan launched his first Kickstarter back in 2015, the VRGO chair locomotion device, which saw a modest £22,100 (~$27,000) in crowdfunds. Now, a smaller form factor version of the device is being launched through a...
Step Into Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ in This VR Fan Tribute
Daft Punk's Interstella 5555 (2003) is an hour-long film that expertly blends the electronic music duo's album Discovery with some pretty striking visuals, courtesy of Japanese anime studio Toei Animation. Now, thanks to a group of fans led by Sydney-based VR developer Jake...
Ubisoft Confirms “unannounced AAA VR project,” Building New 50 Person Team for the Task
Ubisoft, which has released five VR titles to date, confirmed that it's building a large, 50 person team to develop an "unannounced AAA project" using one of the company's well known IPs.
Ubisoft has confirmed to VRFocus that it's spinning up a...
Where to Find All Quest & Rift Cross-buy Apps in One Place
For those with both an Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest, 'cross-buy' games mean that you can buy a game once and play it on both headsets. Because the Oculus store doesn't explicitly label which games are cross-buy and which...
Filming ‘The Lion King’ in VR was like a “multiplayer filmmaking game,” Says Director
Although The Lion King (2019) might have garnered a tepid reception from film critics, there's no debating that Jon Favreau's photorealistic remake of the 1994 original film roars in the visual department. It's in part thanks to a production pipeline that...
Ubisoft Ends Post-launch Development for ‘Space Junkies’, Scraps Non-VR Version
Space Junkies (2019), the multiplayer sci-fi arena shooter from Ubisoft Montpellier, has reached a pretty significant impasse; the studio is pulling its previously planned support for the flatscreen version of the game, and issuing its final update on PSVR and...
Digital Frontier: Where Brain-computer Interfaces & AR/VR Could One Day Meet
Whenever I used to think about brain-computer interfaces (BCI), I typically imagined a world where the Internet was served up directly to my mind through cyborg-style neural implants—or basically how it's portrayed in Ghost in the Shell. In that world,...
