Top Investors Discuss VR and AR Strategies and Opportunites at IMMERSE 2016

Business leaders gathered at this year's Seattle based IMMERSE Summit (previously Sea VR) to explore how VR/ AR and Mixed Reality is transforming manufacturing, design, education, health and medicine and much more. Road to VR's Michael Glombicki caught up with...
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Daydream View Gets Its First TV Commercials

With Google's Pixel phone out the door, the first Daydream-ready phone, the company is now ramping up to launch Daydream View, the first Daydream-ready VR headset. The device is making a cameo alongside the first cable TV ads for...

Embodied Cognition & Using Social Structures for Collaborative Learning

The concept of embodied cognition is a hot topic within immersive education circles, and was a featured topic at during the Embodied Learning educational workshop that happened at the IEEE VR academic conference. Embodied Learning could help revolutionize education...

Stop-Motion Guru Phil Tippett Brings Nightmarish ‘MAD GOD’ Universe to VR

Phil Tippett, the visual effects genius behind classic stop-motion animation sequences from films such as the holochess scene from the Star Wars franchise, Jurassic Park (1993), and RoboCop 2 (1990), brings his latest stop-mo project MAD GOD to virtual reality. Based on Tippett's eponymous short film MAD...

Using Virtual Humans with Personality for Medical Training

On today's episode, I talk with Dr. Benjamin Lok from the University of Florida about how they're using Virtual Humans as patients to train medical students. He talks about the key components for creating a plausible training scenario which...

NextVR to Broadcast Over 20 Live NBA Games This Season, Coverage Starts Tonight

NextVR, the leader in live VR sports broadcasting, today released their full schedule for their live NBA coverage, including 25 games featuring 30 teams throughout the 2016-2017 season. Make sure to have your phone battery charged, your Gear VR lenses...
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Watch: Square Enix’s ‘Project Hikari’ Melds Manga and VR

By now, there have been many attempts at storytelling in VR that have been inspired by various traditional forms of entertainment, such as film or animation, but with Project Hikari the Square Enix Advanced Technology Division is pioneering the concept of...

Oculus Story Studio Creative Director on ‘Quill’, an Immersive Storytelling Tool

Oculus Story Studio has been exploring VR storytelling through a series of short narrative experiences starting with Lost and Henry, but they wanted to push the envelope of immersive storytelling with their next short titled Dear Angelica. They developed...

‘Alice VR’ Review

Virtual reality is a fitting medium for adventure games. When the atmosphere is right and the scene is set, you start to think about the world in a way that taps deep into your reptilian brain, the same one...

HTC to Roll Out Hundreds of Official ‘Vive VR Cafes’ in China Next Year

HTC opened their third officially branded 'Vive VR Cafe' last week, this time in Shenzhen, China, the country's Silicon Valley of hardware. In an interview with Haptical, HTC China's President of Vive Alvin Wang Graylin confirms the company will be rolling...