Vreal Closes $11.7 Million Series A Funding, Chet Faliszek Signs on to Board of Directors
Vreal, a VR livestreaming and social broadcast platform, today announced the closure of a $11.7 million Series A funding round led by Axioma Ventures, along with new investors Intel Capital and AET Fund. Existing participating investors include Upfront Ventures, Vulcan Capital and...
Dreamscape Immersive Launches Pop-up Location Featuring ‘Alien Zoo’ Experience
Dreamscape Immersive, the location based VR startup, today announced the public debut of a limited engagement VR experience called Alien Zoo. Now taking reservations at Westfield Century City, LA, California, the multiplayer experience will be open to the public for a single month.
Alien...
Multiplayer Sci-fi Adventure ‘Downward Spiral: Horus Station’ to Launch This Spring on PSVR, Rift & Vive
Downward Spiral: Horus Station is an upcoming sci-fi adventure game from 3rd Eye Studios, a Finish studio featuring industry veterans from games such as Alan Wake, and Halo 5, and movies including Wall-E, Gravity, and Prometheus.
While Horus Station is technically the second installment in the series following last year's Downward Spiral:...
‘Accounting+’ for PSVR Gets New ‘Waterpark’ Level in Latest Update
Squanch Games (formerly Squanchtendo) and partner studio Crows Crows Crows have just added a new level to their PSVR game Accounting+ (2017). Called 'The Waterpark Update', the level is a free update that also includes a free theme.
Update (02/07/18): Squanch Games...
Google Brings AR Mode to ‘Motion Stills’ Android App
Google recently launched an augmented reality mode for the Android version of its video capture app Motion Stills, which brings the ability to insert AR objects into the world so you can record GIFs and video.
Much like Google's AR...
‘Lone Echo’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Ready At Dawn
After more than a decade of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn last year released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief...
Vive Focus’ Western Launch Hinges on Success in China
Having initially announced that their Vive Focus standalone VR headset would operate as part of Google's Daydream VR platform in 2017, HTC later scrapped those plans ahead of the headset's recent launch in China under HTC's own 'Wave Vive'...
Update: ‘Earthlight’ Developer Experimenting With PSVR
Opaque Space, a studio working in collaboration with NASA to build space-themed VR experiences, have started experimenting with PSVR.
Update (02/06/18): In a previous version of this article, it was incorrectly reported that studio's latest experience 'Earthlight: Spacewalk' would be coming to...
Valve’s ‘Steam Audio’ Spatial Sound System Gets Support for AMD TrueAudio Next, FMOD
Steam Audio, Valve's free made-for-VR spatial audio system, has added support for AMD's GPU-based TrueAudio Next technology, as well as the popular FMOD audio software.
AMD TrueAudio Next
Today Valve announced the release of Steam Audio 2.0 beta 13 which now...
360 Film ‘Dinner Party’ is a Symbolic Exploration of Race in America Wrapped in an Alien...
Dinner Party is an immersive exploration of Betty and Barney Hill's widely known 1961 alien abduction story that premiered at the Sundance New Frontier film festival. Rather than using normal alien tropes, writers Laura Wexler & Charlotte Stoudt chose to...













