Immersv Raises $10.5M Investment to Bring Ads into VR and Mobile 360 Video
Today, California-based interactive advertising platform Immersv announced the successful completion of a $10.5 million Series A round of financing, led by venture capital fund Rogers Venture Partners. This marks a positive step for the company, and another indication of...
‘Hover Junkers’ is Getting a Single Player Mode, Here’s the Teaser Trailer
Developer StressLevelZero is fulfilling their promise of adding a single player campaign to Hover Junkers—one of the Vive's earliest titles—arriving in the free 1.3 ‘Junkroad’ update. The team recently posted a short gameplay teaser, showing a distinctly less frantic...
One of the First Games Ever Shown on Vive Launches This Fall on Vive, Rift, and...
Arizona Sunshine developer Vertigo Games announced today that Skyworld, a top-down strategy game built for VR is coming to the Vive, Rift, and Windows VR headsets. The game was shown way back in 2015 as one of the first demos...
Tyler Hurd’s Psychedelic VR Music Video ‘Chocolate’ Now Available on Vive and Rift
Chocolate, the latest virtual creation from the mind of Tyler Hurd—the VR animator and director behind BUTTS (2015) and Old Friend (2016)—launched today on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Chocolate is a real-time VR music video set to a...
Strategy Game ‘League of War: VR Arena’ Comes to PSVR This Fall
Independent developer MunkyFun is bringing League of War: VR Arena exclusively to Sony’s PSVR platform this Fall. Detailed in an entry on the official PlayStation Blog, the studio’s first VR game is described as being similar to ‘holographic chess’...
New Procedural Speech Animation From Disney Research Could Make for More Realistic VR Avatars
A new paper authored by researchers from Disney Research and several universities describes a new approach to procedural speech animation based on deep learning. The system samples audio recordings of human speech and uses it to automatically generate matching...
Horror & Gore in VR – Designing ‘Killing Floor: Incursion’
Killing Floor: Incursion is a horror game featuring lots of gore that is sure to evoke visceral reactions in players. I had a chance to play a demo at GDC 2017, and I can say that it's definitely an...
‘EVE: Valkyrie Warzone’ Update Adding Non-VR Mode and PS4/PC Cross Platform Play
One of the earliest big exclusive releases for VR, EVE: Valkyrie from CCP Games, continues to evolve and with the latest free expansion dubbed 'Warzone' the developers have opened its particular brand of slick online space shooter to players...
Navigating Paradox, Reality Bubbles, & Multiple Worldviews with VR
Dr. Marilyn Schlitz is a social anthropologist, consciousness researcher, and co-author of the books Consciousness & Healing and Living Deeply. Her anthropological work has been at the frontier of researching how different cultures use various indigenous practices to invoke...
Strider VR is an Intriguing New Omnidirectional Treadmill Solution
Strider VR uses a novel approach to omnidirectional treadmill design, using a rotatable ball array positioned above a traditional linear treadmill, combined with a Microsoft Kinect 2 sensor. The system is currently available as a development kit from German...
