Noitom Releases Perception Neuron 2.0 Motion Capture System
Noitom, the Beijing-based company building affordable motion capture systems, announced the release of Perception Neuron 2.0, a hardware refresh of the company's original tracker which resulted from their 2014 Kickstarter campaign. The company also announced a new product ecosystem which...
Former Mozilla WebVR Pioneers Launch ‘Supermedium’ VR Browser
Supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, Supermedium is a new, fully VR browser from the creators of VR web framework ‘A-Frame’ and part of the original Mozilla team behind the WebVR initiative. Available to download on Supermedium’s website, the...
Play VR Sport ‘SPARC’ for Free on Rift This Weekend
Sparc (2017), the VR sport from EVE Online developers CCP Games, is hosting a free weekend for Rift players on Oculus Home. Temporary free access has already begun, and will conclude on February 4th at 11:59 PM PT (local time here).
Initially...
Oculus Go Dev Kit Images Show the Headset to Be Near Consumer-ready
Two images showing a seemingly consumer-ready box containing Oculus Go, the company's upcoming standalone VR headset, found its way to Reddit and Twitter recently, possibly indicating that launch is right around the corner.
As first reported by TechRadar, the images appear...
Medieval Roguelike Bow-shooter ‘IN DEATH’ Hits Early Access, PSVR Version in the Works
Sólfar Studios' new title IN DEATH, launches today in Early Access with a launch week discount. The "roguelike" bow-shooter makes use of procedural generation to create different experience every time you play, the developers say, while players come upon "monsters, mysteries...
Hands-on: VRHero “5K” Plus Aims for Visual Fidelity Above All Else
VRgineers is a Czech-based startup building a VR headset positioned strictly for the enterprise world. Compared to today's consumer VR headsets, it's undeniably huge and heavy, but a hands-on with their latest VRHero "5K" Plus shows that they're on a...
Inside Sundance Hit ‘SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime’ with Director Eliza McNitt
Sundance New Frontier had a solid line-up of VR experiences this year with a number of immersive storytelling innovations including SPHERES: Songs of Spacetime, which takes you on a journey into the center of a black hole. It's a...
HTC: Vive Pro is Targeted at Prosumers and Will Be “more expensive” Than Consumer Vive
VR/AR expert Antony Vitillo (aka 'Skarred Ghost') got an opportunity to speak with HTC Vive China President Alvin Wang Graylin recently, and while Graylin predictably couldn't answer the question on everyone's mind—"how much is Vive Pro going to cost?"—we...
VirZOOM Closes $5.5M Seed Funding to Develop Second Generation of VR Bike Kit
VirZOOM, makers of VR arcade exercise games and the VirZOOM Bike Controller, announced the successful closure of a $5.5 million seed funding round which the company says will help expand its commercial business worldwide with a second generation of its...
Stanford VR Lab Founder’s Academic Journey with VR, and new Book ‘Experience on Demand’
Jeremy Bailenson founding director of Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, and his latest book Experience on Demand traces his academic journey through virtual reality. It's an intellectual memoir that focuses on his personal work in VR, and the...
