‘RaceRoom’ Racing Sim Gets Initial Rift and Vive Support Through SteamVR
RaceRoom Racing Experience has received a major update that introduces Vive and Rift support through SteamVR. The update also includes a number of improvements and adds new content to this often underappreciated racing sim.
Developer Sector3 has been largely silent...
Animated Short ‘Pearl’ is VR’s First Oscar Nominated Film
Pearl (2016), a 360 animated short film from director Patrick Osborne and Google's Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), has landed an Academy Award nomination for this year's best animated short film, making it the first VR film in the running...
HTC Opens Applications for Free Vive Tracker Dev Kit
HTC announced earlier in January that they'd be giving away 1,000 Vive Trackers to developers. Applications to get your hands on one of the Trackers are now open through February 7th.
The new HTC Vive Tracker is a standalone tracking...
Developer Owlchemy Labs Talks Keys to Early VR Indie Success
Owlchemy Labs recently announced that Job Simulator has grossed over $3 million, making it one of the most successful indie VR titles to date, and so it's worth reflecting on some of the design principles of agency and plausibility...
‘SUPERHOT VR’ Getting New Challenge Modes in February Update
Superhot VR is one of our favorite Oculus Touch launch titles. Like many of the best VR games so far, the thing we craved the most was more. A new update will extend the replayability of the game with several new modes...
Experts Share 6 Legal Considerations to Know Before Jumping into the VR/AR Industry
Earlier this month, a panel of legal experts met at the SIXR Legal Workshop to discuss legal challenges in VR and AR development and how to navigate them. While VR and AR startups have many of the same legal...
Google VR/AR Team Seeks New Hire to “drive multiple hardware projects simultaneously from prototype to mass...
A flurry of new job postings suggests Google is ramping up a team to create new consumer VR/AR hardware that goes beyond their Daydream View headset.
Google announced the Daydream View headset in late 2016 amidst a new initiative that saw...
Quantifying Touch on 15 Dimensions with SynTouch
SynTouch has created a system that can quantify the sense of touch on fifteen different dimensions called the SynTouch Standard, and they're one of the most impressive haptic start-ups that I've seen so far. SynTouch isn't creating haptic displays...
Oculus Deploys New Age Rating System for VR Content
By March 1st 2017, every title in the Oculus Store will be assigned through the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) rating process. IARC is a globally streamlined age classification process for digital games and mobile apps.
In a recent entry...
Altair Digital Are Bringing the Planetarium Experience to Your Face Using VR
Altair Digital have announced that they are to bring the wonder of the solar system as historically experienced via your local Planetarium to virtual reality with Fulldome Cinema.
One of the earliest forms of immersive education and perhaps a pre-cursor...














