Behind the Scenes of Felix & Paul’s Emmy-winning White House VR Documentary
The White House VR documentary People's House by Felix & Paul Studios won a Emmy for the outstanding original interactive, and I had a chance to talk with Paul Raphael of Felix & Paul Studios about the challenges of...
Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’
The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...
Enthusiast Hacks Together Headset & 3D Game for the 34 Year Old Commodore 64
The Commodore 64—a renowned 8-bit home computer system that debuted in 1983—may be approaching antique status at 34 years old, but one enthusiast has seen fit to make sure it doesn't get left out of the VR craze.
An enthusiast...
Is Body Image from Perception or Attitude? – Studying Anorexia with VR Self-avatars
Do patients with anorexia nervosa suffer from body image distortion due to how they perceive their body or is it due to attitudinal beliefs? Betty Mohler has been using VR technologies to study whether body representation is more perceptual...
‘Driver4VR’ Emulates Vive Trackers With Kinect for Cheap VR Body Tracking
A new SteamVR mod from the developer behind WalkinVR now allows body tracking by emulating Vive Trackers via Kinect’s motion sensing data, enabling an inexpensive solution for full body motion tracking in VR. The driver, available at the official...
Pimax Launches Kickstarter Today For 8K & 5K VR Headsets
Pimax, the China-based VR headset manufacturer, just launched their Kickstarter for the hotly anticipated 8K and 5K VR headsets.
Update (09/19/17): The rumors were true; Pimax has launched their Kickstarter today. The company is aiming to reach $200,000 in funding, with prices starting at...
Sony is Bringing PS2 Classics ‘Gungrave’ & ‘Zone of the Enders’ to PSVR, Teaser Trailers Here
Tokyo Game Show (TGS) is upon us, and Sony has today shown off some a few brand new teaser trailers at its PlayStation keynote. Among them were two PS2-era franchises getting new life on PlayStation VR: Zone of the Enders: The...
Apple iOS 11 Rolls Out Today, Augmented Reality Apps Now Showing Up on App Store
Apple is rolling out iOS 11 today, its mobile operating system that's compatible with "hundreds of millions of devices" including iPhones going back to the iPhone 5s, and a variety of recent iPads. If your device is able to...
Crytek Adds HTC Vive & Oculus Touch Support to ‘Robinson: The Journey’
Originally launched in November last year as a PSVR exclusive, Crytek’s Robinson: The Journey (2016) made its way early this year to Oculus Rift via Oculus Home and also eventually Steam too. Critically missing however was official support for HTC Vive and any support for motion controllers.
Now,...
China’s Largest Messaging App ‘WeChat’ is Creating its Own AR Platform
WeChat, known in China as the app that offers everything from messaging to a ubiquitous payment service, is getting its own augmented reality framework; at over 963 million active users, the popular Chinese app could put AR in the hands...
