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Choosing the Right 360 VR Camera

With a virtual reality camera, you can capture the whole world around you in a 360 degree videosphere. VR filmmaking is seeing rapid innovation, meaning that there are more 360-degree cameras on the market now than ever before, geared...

Watch: 17 Mins of ‘Arktika.1’ Oculus Touch Gameplay

Arktika.1 is the VR debut for 4A Games, the developers bind the Metro series of first person shooters. The title is built from the ground up for Oculus Touch, here's 17 minutes of the Oculus Connect 3 demo where...

Facebook Plans to Launch Social VR App “As Soon As Possible”

Facebook, parent company of Oculus, is beginning to flex its virtual reality arm. The company wants to use the technology revolutionize how social interactions happen across the web, and we may see the first stages of that plan earlier...

Steam to Get High Quality Adaptive 360 Video Streaming Service

360 video is coming to Steam and it looks as if Valve are aiming high in terms of the quality they're aiming to deliver to consumer VR headsets. There's an op-ed piece I've been meaning to write for some time...

‘Loading Human’ Review

Loading Human is a first-person sci-fi adventure that, much like the pulp fiction space operas of years gone past, puts you in the shoes of a charming 22nd century astronaut straight out of space academy. Instead of launching into the far...

Sony Expects Early PSVR Sales to Reach “Many Hundreds of Thousands”

Sony is setting high near term sales figure expectations for PlayStation VR's rollout. Speaking with CNBC earlier this week, Jim Ryan, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, spoke to the company's confidence in early traction of the PSVR headset. "We know...

Impressions on Valve’s New VR Controller Prototype from Cloudhead’s Denny Unger

Valve premiered a prototype of a new type of VR input controller at Steam Dev Days in order to get some preliminary feedback from developers. They've created a capacitive-touch controller that is attached to your hand so that you...

Oculus Touch Will Support 360 and Room-scale Tracking With Extra Cameras

Long a point of contention, Oculus last week announced a welcome new stance: the Rift will be officially supporting 360 degree tracking and room-scale as part of the forthcoming Touch launch. At the company's 'Connect' developer conference it was finally...

‘Until Dawn: Rush of Blood’ Review

Until Dawn: Rush of Blood is a horror rail shooter launch title for PlayStation VR. It begins with a creepy carny warning you about the horrors that lie ahead. Once you ignore his warnings and accept the challenge of...

Animated VR Tale ‘Allumette’ Launches Today, Aims For Your Heart Strings

https://youtu.be/AkzdxgMBDi8 Penrose Studios' Allumette launches on Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR today. This real-time animated VR tale is beautifully crafted and aims for your heart strings, but does it hit its mark? Alumette tells the tale of an orphaned girl who...