AR & AI Storytelling Innovations in ‘TendAR’ from Studio Tender Claws

Tender Claws, the creators of the award-winning interactive VR narrative Virtual Virtual Reality, premiered a new, site-specific, interactive AR narrative experience at the Sundance New Frontier called TendAR. It was a social augmented reality experience that paired two people...

Grabbing Virtual Objects with the HaptX Glove (Formerly AxonVR)

The HaptX Glove that was shown at Sundance was one of the most convincing haptics experiences that I've had in VR. While it was still primitive, I was able to grab a virtual object in VR, and for the...

Humble Store VR Sale Offers up to 66% off Top VR Titles This Weekend

The Humble Store is having a big VR sale currently, putting some of the best-rated games for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on deep discount. There's not much chaff in the list below, so we hope you still have...

How to Watch the 2018 Winter Olympics in VR

The 2018 Winter Olympics is about to kick off in PyeongChang, South Korea today, and this year you'll be able to watch a total of 30 events in VR, shared across live and on-demand 360/180 recordings. NBC has partnered with...

Viacom Shutters VR Studio Viacom Next in Cost-cutting Move

Viacom Next, the company's technology group tasked with producing immersive experiences, is no longer. David Liu, former Creative Director at Next, announced the news via twitter. As reported by Variety, around 100 employees have been laid off across multiple Viacom divisions in...

Apple’s Latest VR Patent Describes a Compact VR Headset with Eye Tracking

In a patent filed in 2017 and issued today by the United States Patent Office, Apple describes a VR headset designed to be compact and comfortable. Spotted by Patently Apple, Apple's patent titled Optical System for Head-mounted Display makes it clear...

‘Sprint Vector’ Review – Innovative Locomotion Makes Adrenaline-soaked Foot Racing a Reality

Sprint Vector (2018) is a VR racing game of a different stripe. Dubbed an "adrenaline platformer" by production studio Survios, the developers behind Raw Data (2017), it actually sticks to some pretty well-established arcade racing tropes pioneered by the Mario Kart franchise. Still, it's...
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‘Quill’ Gets Animation Tools to Bring Your VR Paintings to Life

Quill, Facebook's VR painting tool, has been a great way to sketch in VR since its launch back at the end of 2016, but today a new update transforms it into something entirely new. Now, with tools for animating Quill artwork...

‘ARK Park’ to Launch March 22nd on PSVR, Vive & Rift

ARK Park, the VR multiplayer adventure game based on the world of ARK:Survival Evolved (2017), was originally slated for a December release on PlayStation VR, but then production studio Snail Games delayed the game as it was "still in development." Now,...
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Compact Motion Simulator ‘Yaw VR’ Reaches Kickstarter Funding Goal

Claiming to be “the world’s most compact and affordable VR motion simulator,” Yaw VR is a 3DoF motion system using a spherical dome design that allows for unlimited, 360-degree yaw movement and 50 degrees across the horizontal axes. The...