The Future of Virtual Lightfields with Otoy CEO Jules Urbach
Otoy is a rendering company that pushing the limits of digital light fields and physically-based rendering. Now that Otoy's Octane Renderer has shipped in Unity, they're pivoting from focusing on licensing their rendering engine to selling cloud computing resources...
Correction: Apple, Valve, and LG Didn’t End Up Investing in OLED Microdisplay Maker eMagin
According to documents filed last month with SEC, participation of a new stock issuance of some $10 million by OLED microdisplay maker eMagin was offered to Apple, Valve, and LG, among others, though those companies didn't end up participating in the...
NBA All-Star and Weekly Regular Season Coverage Comes Live to VR via TNT and Intel
TNT and Intel have teamed up to bring NBA All-Star coverage to VR on Gear VR and Daydream.
Based on Intel's True VR technology, TNT is bringing live and on-demand VR coverage of NBA All-Star events to Gear VR and...
Sony Reveals 14 Minutes of New ‘Moss’ PSVR Gameplay Ahead of February Launch
With PSVR adventure game Moss set to launch this month, Sony is ramping up the hype for Quill, the game's adorable little mouse buddy, with 14 minutes of new gameplay.
First revealed at E3 2017 back in June, Moss is a third-person puzzle-adventure...
‘EVE: Valkyrie’ and ‘Wands’ Free Weekend Coming This Month
Even with a wide selection of gameplay videos and written reviews, it's hard to know if you should buy a VR game without ever having tried it yourself. Oculus' solution: extended all-access free weekends on select titles. To that effect, Oculus is...
Magic Leap Takes on Funding from Media Company Axel Springer
German media company Axel Springer today announced that it has taken part in a new round of financing of Magic Leap. The company hasn't disclosed the amount of the investment, or mentioned whether other companies have also taken part in the new...
Balancing Player Control & Authorial Control with “Virtual Virtual Reality”
Virtual Virtual Reality by studio Tender Claws is a Daydream-exclusive interactive story that won the best VR experience at the 2017 Google Play Awards VR, and it's one of my personal favorite interactive narratives within VR. Virtual Virtual Reality (aka VVR)...
Arcade Boxer ‘Knockout League’ to Land on PSVR February 13th
Sony has finally released word on when PSVR owners will be able to get their hands on the popular VR boxing title Knockout League; it's officially coming to PlayStation VR February 13th. The game has been in Early Access on...
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...













