Sony Experimenting with Advanced Livestreaming Features for PSVR, Mixed Reality Views

Speaking during a session at GDC 2018 last month, Richard Forster, Senior Team Lead at Sony's Research & Development West group, chronicled a range of explorations in advanced livestreaming and sharing features for PSVR. Today PSVR users can access the usual...

Update: KatVR Scraps ‘Mini’ VR Treadmill Kickstarter, Sets Price at $3000

Kat VR, the China-based company behind the 2015 Kickstarter-funded KAT Walk VR treadmill, announced last month that a new mini-version of the low-friction VR treadmill would be hitting Kickstarter soon, and that above all it would be "affordable." Today...

Play Zero-G Sport ‘Echo Arena’ This Weekend on Rift For a Chance to Win Prizes

Oculus is heading into its third week of 'Rift Gold Rush', a prize-winning extravaganza marking the two-year anniversary of Rift's launch. To get a chance to win this weekend, just pop into a public match in Echo Arena (2017) during the...

Updates on the Decentralized Metaverse: WebXR, A-Frame, & ‘Supermedium’

I visited Mozilla's offices last October to chat with A-Frame co-creator & co-maintainer Diego Marcos about the current state of WebVR. Marcos has since left Mozilla in order to work on the Supermedium WebVR browser, which creates a desktop...
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Vive Pro Gets Detailed Teardown Confirming Samsung-made Displays

Teardown experts iFixit have disassembled the new Vive Pro to see what they could find. In addition to confirming that the headset's new displays are made by Samsung, the organization also gave the headset a favorable repairability score. IFixit, which...

Social VR App ‘vTime’ Closes $7.6M Series A Investment, AR Experience to Come in 2018

vTime, the social VR platform, today announced the closure of a $7.6 million (£5.4 million) Series A funding round led by Deepbridge Capital with included investment from Liverpool, UK-based institutional loan and equity provider MSIF. vTime founder and CEO Martin Kenwright says...

Inside VR Park, Dubai Mall’s Massive New VR Theme Park

The Dubai Mall, one of the world’s largest shopping complexes, is now home to VR Park, an indoor theme park spanning two floors and over 75,000 square feet of space, offering a wide variety of VR experiences, including several...

Google Offers High Quality ‘Jump’ 360 Video Stitching with Improved 3D

Google this week introduced a new "High Quality" option for their Jump Assembler, an automated 3D 360 video stitching service for creators shooting with Jump cameras. The new approach brings more accurate stitching with enhanced depth maps resulting in...
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VR Photogrammetry Showcase ‘Realities’ is Getting Three New Scenes

Realities is a VR photogrammetry showcase featuring detailed photogramatic scans from a handful of interesting locations around the world. In collaboration with Canadian television channel TV5's documentary series Terre d’Exploration, the first of three new scenes from the Canadian wilderness is...

‘Skyrim VR’ vs. ‘Fallout 4 VR’ – The Best Bethesda RPG in VR

Bethesda's recent flatscreen-to-VR ports, Skyrim VR and Fallout 4 VR, face a few common challenges in terms of immersion. Neither are perfect, but at this point in time, both games represent something VR users haven't had yet: vast and rich open-world...