Why the Closure of Oculus Story Studio is Good News for VR Filmmakers

Oculus just officially announced that they'd be winding down Story Studio, the company's internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost, Henry, and Dear Angelica. Along with the closure, the company also says they're earmarking $50 million to...

Meta Expects to Ship 10,000 AR Dev Kits in 2017

The Meta 2 augmented reality dev kit began pre-orders in March of 2016 and has apparently seen quite a bit of interest. By the end of 2016, the company says they began shipping the first Meta 2 dev kits,...

Exclusive: Baobab’s ‘Rainbow Crow’ is Pushing VR Film Visuals into Beautiful New Territory

By now it's trite to call any CG VR film studio "the Pixar of VR," but one reason for that pervasive comparison is that Pixar's waxy-textured, brightly-colored, hard-edged geometry has become a dominant style for big-budget CG films. But we hear over...

Hands-on: IMR’s Wireless VR System Aims to Untether Today and Tomorrow’s VR Headsets

IMR is one of several companies creating technology to enable a future where high-end VR headsets can break free of the tether that keeps them connected to the host PC. The company's secret sauce is their proprietary compression algorithm...

Vive Deluxe Audio Strap Gets June 6th Release Date

HTC announced a serious looking upgrade for its Vive headset earlier this year at CES 2017. The 'Deluxe Audio Strap' replaces the original device's harness and upgrades it with integrated headphones and a new, more robust adjustable head assembly. Update...

VR Veteran Tony Parisi is Leading Unity’s AR & VR Strategy Beyond Gaming

The keynote from Unity's Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity's xR strategy is Tony Parisi,...

Valve VR Frontman Chet Faliszek Departs Company After 12 Years

Though there's surely many talents folks at Valve responsible for the company's VR initiatives, over the last several years Chet Faliszek has become a front-facing evangelist and go-to spokesperson for VR at Valve. Now after 12 years with the company,...
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‘rFactor 2’ Beta Adds Vive & Rift Support, and it Looks Intense

It's been a long time coming for a racing simulator originally released in 2013, but rFactor 2 has just taken an exciting new step for VR fans as the game's latest beta not only adds DX11 support for enhanced...
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Google Announces New Tools to Develop High-performance Daydream Apps

During the opening presentation at today's Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google's...

Here’s the 10 Companies Competing at GTC’s VR Content Showcase for $30,000 in Prizes

With over 120 applications, Nvidia has announced the 10 companies that will compete at the VR Content Showcase during GTC 2017 for $30,000 in cash and prizes. Nvidia's GTC 2017 conference next week has a heavy focus on broader business...