Nokia Partners with Lucasfilm to Produce ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ VR Content

At the NAB Show currently in progress in Las Vegas, Nokia announced a partnership with Lucasfilm to deliver an immersive behind-the-scenes VR experience of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. This forms part of the existing, multi-year technology agreement between...

VR Storytelling Highlights from Tribeca Film Festival

The Tribeca Film Festival featured over 30 different VR experiences within their Storyscapes and Immersive Virtual Arcade, and I had a chance to catch up with curator Loren Hammonds about some of the highlights of the festival program with...

‘Gears of War’ Creator Cliff Bleszinski Wants to Make a Big Budget VR Game

If you don't already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus' 2012 Kickstarter video. Now under the banner of his own studio, Boss Key Productions,...
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‘Panzerwehr: 1949’ Reimagines Mechs in VR as WWII-era Combat Machines

In development by indie studio KUKURU3, Panzerwehr: 1949 is a mech combat simulator made for VR which imagines an alternate WWII timeline where mechs rule the battlefield as anti-tank hunters in a war that's dragged on to 1949. Panzerwehr: 1949 began as a tech...
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‘Batman: Arkham VR’ Launches on Vive and Rift

Batman: Arkham VR (2016) is one of PlayStation VR's top games, and an exclusive too, until now.  Developer Rocksteady has launched the game for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Update (4/25/17, 2:53PM PT): Batman: Arkham VR has launched on...

Live Comedy Show ‘Comedy Living Room’ Coming to Altspace Thursday

Comedy Living Room, the stand-up comedy show created by Matt Lottman and Frank Chad Muniz (and literally held in a living room), is hosting its first show in VR on Thursday, April 27th at 5pm PT. The collaboration between...

‘Wilson’s Heart’ Review

Wilson's Heart (2017) is a psychological thriller that takes you on a wild first-person adventure through the mind of a hospital patient recovering from a curious surgery, one that has replaced his live-beating heart with a strange machine. Ripping it from your chest,...

Exclusive: Meta 2 AR Demos Revealed in Full

Outside of a few demonstrations at tradeshows, Meta has only give glimpses of the content on its impressive AR headset dev kit in short clips. During a recent visit to the company's Silicon Valley headquarters to catch the latest...

Google Nominates Top AR/VR Apps for 2017 Play Awards

This year's 2017 Google Play Awards include new categories for top VR and AR apps, to which Google has nominated five apps each. The award ceremony will take place on Thursday, May 18th at 6:30PM PT during Google I/O,...
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‘Alien: Covenant In Utero’ VR Experience Launches Wednesday

The forthcoming Alien: Covenant movie is getting a VR experience, Alien: Covenant In Utero and it launches this Wednesday on Oculus platforms. Following the news of director Ridley Scott's film production company launching a VR division, the release date for the Alien: Covenant In...