Sundance’s Shari Frilot on the Power of VR Storytelling to See Ourselves in a New Way
Shari Frilot started the New Frontier program at Sundance in 2007, and produced the festival's first VR experience in 2012 with Nonny de la Peña's Hunger in LA using an early Rift prototype made by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey....
Wireless Vive Adapter TPCAST to Ship First Pre-orders by Month’s End
Shipping of the first TPCAST Wireless Adaptors for HTC Vive has been delayed for a few weeks and is now expected by the end of April. In a statement posted on Weixin, TPCAST apologised to pre-order customers, explaining that...
IKinema Teases More Impressive Full Body Mocap with Vive Tracker
A new video produced by IKinema showcases Orion, their new full-body animation system that uses HTC Vive tracking hardware. Their expertise in inverse kinematics results in convincing, affordable motion capture using a small number of tracking points.
The Vive Tracker's...
Virtuix Omni VR Treadmill to Get ‘Arizona Sunshine’ Support, Partners with HTC
Popular VR title Arizona Sunshine and two others are soon to get native support for the Virtuix Omni VR treadmill. Virtuix has also announced that the company has become a "formal hardware partner of HTC."
Arizona Sunshine is one of SteamVR's...
Eye-tracking Glasses Give Glimpse into Professional Pianist’s Perception
For immersive technologies like AR and VR to be effective, they need to understand not only about our world, but also about us. But we don't even understand us all that well yet; as we capture more biometric information on...
Watch: Apelab’s Intriging New ‘Break a Leg’ Running on Gear VR’s Motion Controller
Swiss / LA based developers apelab have announced their latest project for Gear VR. It's called 'Break a Leg' and it puts you in the top hat of an "improvised magician" as he strives to entertain his audience. Here's the game...
Get a Free Gear VR + Controller with Galaxy S8 Pre-orders, Offer Lasts Until 4/20
With the Galaxy S8 and S8+ coming later this month, Samsung is hoping to sweeten the deal with a free Gear VR headset and Controller for US and Canadian pre-orders before April 20th. And while there are plenty of...
SVVR Keynote: Historical Context of VR + Elemental Theory of Presence
I had the chance to give the keynote at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference where I provide some historical context for virtual reality tracing the evolution of communications mediums in order to contextualize my elemental theory of presence....
Oculus CTO: Improved Gear VR Visuals Part of a “brand new Oculus runtime system,” Details Improvements
In an update rolling out to Gear VR users over the next few weeks, Oculus Home on Gear VR will see a 2x boost in pixel resolution, according to Oculus, and load times improved as much as 3x. Oculus...
VRLO 7 Brings Latest in VR and AR to London from Epic Games, HTC, Rewind, and More
VRLO, the UK’s leading meetup for virtual reality practitioners and enthusiasts, had its seventh edition on March 20th. Hosted by Rewind, in association with Advertising Week Europe, VRLO 7 attracted 350 attendees who glimpsed the present and future of...
