Hack Makes ‘Google Earth VR’ Compatible With Rift and Touch
Google Earth VR was launched this week to great excitement, except to Rift users who found out that the game wouldn't work with their headset. Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the...
‘Oculus Quill’ Beta Available For Free At Touch Launch
Oculus in a blog post has announced that Quill, their VR illustration software used for Dear Angelica, is going to launch as a free beta with the launch of their Touch controllers next month. This adds yet another free application...
Conan Visits YouTube’s Mixed Reality VR Lab
Late night talk show host Conan O'Brien visits YouTube Space New York to check out their mixed reality VR lab. Although he can't avoid the low hanging fruit of VR porn jokes (NSFW), he does seem to have a good...
Stanford Studies Control Schemes for Three-armed Avatars in VR
Researchers at Stanford think that having a third arm in VR could make you a more efficient (virtual) human. So they've set out to learn what they can about the most effective means of controlling an extra limb in...
Tactical Haptics Raises $2.2 Million to Build Haptic VR Controller Dev Kit
Tactical Haptics, a company pioneering a novel form of haptic feedback which can create compelling sensations that go far beyond rumble, announced today it has raised $2.2 million to create a development kit of a haptic VR controller as...
‘V’, The Universal Dashboard for VR, Launches Open Beta
V is a universal dashboard for virtual reality experiences which lets you load websites and webapps like Slack, Spotify, and Soundcloud inside of your favorite VR games. Today the software launches as a free open beta for the Rift.
A universal...
SteamVR Update Adds Asynchronous Reprojection
NThe latest update to SteamVR adds asynchronous reprojection for Nvidia GPUs. Similar to Oculus’ asynchronous timewarp, it mitigates unwanted ‘judder’ when the hardware fails to maintain 90fps.
Available via the SteamVR Beta since October 25th, asynchronous reprojection is a much-awaited...
Google Developers on Designing ‘Earth VR’: The Overview Effect & Finding Common Ground
Google Earth VR has been one of the most mind-blowing experiences that I've had so far in VR, for so many different reasons. It's felt like it's been rewiring my brain to accommodate the new perspectives of the Earth...
‘Google Earth VR’ Launches on HTC Vive, A Breathtaking New Way to Know Our Planet
Today Google launches Earth VR for the HTC Vive for free, giving us a whole new perspective on the world.
I remember, back in 2001, how amazed I was to see Google Earth for the first time. I remember huddling...
VR-optimized Forward Renderer Comes to Unreal Engine 4.14, Said to Be 22% Faster
Epic Games touted their VR-optimized forward renderer as the reason why their forthcoming Robo Recall game looks so crisp in VR. Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 released today.
While deferred rendering has...













