Preview: ‘Arden’s Wake’ the Latest Work From ‘Alumette’ Creator Penrose Studios
Penrose Studios’ latest VR film work, Arden’s Wake: The Prologue, has debuted at TriBeCa Film Festival’s Virtual Arcade. As “Prologue” implies, Arden’s Wake will be released in episodic form, though the final number of 'episodes' in the series, as...
VirZOOM Partners With AMD to Bring VR Fitness Bikes to Locations Across the Globe
Pedaling a stationary bike is kind of a sad metaphor for life: try as you may, you're never going anywhere. But thanks to virtual reality, there might be an exercise machine coming to your local gym or arcade that...
NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion
Positional audio for VR experiences—where noises sound as if they are coming from the correct direction—has long been understood as an important part of making VR immersive. But knowing which direction sounds are coming from is only one part...
High Fidelity is Architecting for VR Privacy with Self-sovereign Identity
Philip Rosedale has been thinking deeply about how to architect large-scale, distributed virtual worlds after experiencing many bottlenecks as the founder of Second Life. His new metaverse venture, High Fidelity, is taking a much more distributed approach with how it's...
Why 360 Film is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 3: Demand
The 360 film industry is still young and it's maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they're going, and...
Intel to 360 Livestream PGA Tour at TPC Sawgrass Golf Course on Gear VR
Broadcast during all four days of The Players Championship starting May 11th, 360 video will be livestreamed from the famous 17th hole at the TPC Sawgrass golf course. The collaboration with Intel, Twitter, and the PGA Tour will be...
The Future of ‘Facebook Spaces’: Opening the Door to Third-party Developers
Facebook launched their first social VR app Spaces last month to much acclaim. It's a polished experience that does a few things very well, and has the major benefit of tapping into Facebook's existing dominance of the social graph. But...
Why 360 Film is in the Midst of a Reboot – Part 2: Workforce
The 360 film industry is still young and it's maturing rapidly. With his name on more than 20 360 film projects to date, Armando Kirwin has had an inside view as to where things started, where they're going, and...
More Evidence Points to ‘Star Wars Battlefront II’ PSVR Content in the Works
Although not yet officially announced, evidence is mounting for PlayStation VR content coming to Star Wars Battlefront II.
Last month we reported on tweets by Alex Mole, CTO of EA's Criterion, the studio which developed the well regarded Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One:...
‘SuperChem VR’ Shows Impressive, Engaging Gamification of Chemistry Lab Education
I Expect You to Die developer Schell Games have released a trailer for their latest project SuperChem VR, an incredibly fun looking way to teach chemistry and perhaps a glimpse into the potential future for VR in education.
We've seen...