Google ‘Tour Creator’ Lets You Build VR Tours Using Streetview & Your Own 360 Photos
Google today launched Tour Creator, a web-based tool that lets you easily build a VR 'tour' using imagery from Google Street View and even your own 360 photos. The company released the tool as a part of Teacher Appreciation...
This Custom ‘Beat Saber’ Level on Expert Turns DragonForce up to Eleven
Since indie developers Hyperbolic Magnetism endorsed a few community-made level editors for their hit VR rhythm game Beat Saber (2018), people have been adding their own tracks to the lightsaber-wielding slicefest; it's not only let creators up the difficulty, but also made...
Microsoft Store to Lead Industry in Revenue Share to non-Game VR App Devs
Later this year, Microsoft is increasing the cut developers earn when publishing on the Microsoft Store. The raise in revenue share is slated to affect developers of non-gaming apps, amounting to between 85-95 % of revenue going to the...
Report: Samsung & Microsoft Boost “MR” Partnership, Samsung Builds Wireless AR/VR Headset
Samsung appears to be making a strategic partnership with Microsoft as it produces what Korean Times reports is a "powerful cordless headset that supports both augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)." The headset is said to make use...
Google to Support Multi-user Shared AR Apps with ‘Cloud Anchors’ in ARCore
Today at Google I/O 2018, Google announced upgrades to its ARCore augmented reality technology, including a new feature called Cloud Anchors which will let developers create multi-user applications where devices can share an augmented environment.
ARCore launched earlier this year,...
Google Teases AR Maps Integration to Help You Navigate By Sight
Aparna Chennapragada, VP of Product for AR/VR at Google, took to the stage at Google's I/O developer conference today to tease some of the work the company is doing to integrate augmented reality into Google Maps.
Chennapragada says the team...
Matt Miesnieks on the State of the AR Ecosystem
Matt Miesnieks is creating an AR cloud with 6D.AI, which aims to "synchronize 3D computer vision data across devices, time and space" in order to enable "persistent content, occlusion, and real-time shared experiences." Miesnieks has founded a number of...
Flight Simulator ‘X-Plane 11’ Now Natively Supports SteamVR Headsets
X-Plane 11 (2017), the highly-touted and expansive flight simulator for PC, now has a few new badges under its Steam listing, which includes support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows "Mixed Reality" VR headsets.
Developers at the South Carolina-based Laminar...
Tilt Brush-style Creation Tool ‘CoolPaintrVR’ Lands on PSVR, Launch Trailer Here
The PlayStation VR platform is understandably heavy on games, but PSVR owners now have a paint program all their own that appears to be very similar to Google's Tilt Brush (2016), the art program that supports Oculus Rift and HTC...
‘Obduction’ PSVR Support Arrives Today, From The Creators of ‘MYST’
Obduction (2016), the VR puzzle adventure from Cyan, the studio behind the ’90s point-and-click classics Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), is finally making its way to PSVR today.
Update (05/08/18): The PSVR patch for Obduction is now available, which should automatically push an update to the PS4...















