SMI Talks Eye Tracking VR Applications & Foveated Rendering

Sensomotoric Instruments (SMI) is a German-based eye tracking company who has released an eye tracking kit for the Oculus DK2 & Gear VR, and most recently for the HTC Vive. At SIGGRAPH this year, Nvidia was showing a foveated...

‘Damaged Core’ Review

Damaged Core is a first-person shooter set in the dingy near-future of a robot uprising. The Core, an artificial intelligence recently gone rogue, is destroying the Earth, and you, an AI program fighting on behalf of the humans, must hack your way closer...
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Lytro Shows First Light Field Footage Captured with Immerge VR Camera

Back toward the end of 2015, light field camera company Lytro announced a major turn toward the VR market with the introduction of 'Immerge', a light field camera made for capturing data which can be played back as VR video...

‘TheWaveVR’ Co-founder on His Rave & Interactive Concert Platform

TheWave VR coordinated two days worth of DJs playing musical sets in the world's first VR Rave at VRLA. It was TheWave's first event since announcing that they raised a round of $2.5 million to build out an interactive,...

‘Jesus VR’ Claims First Ever Feature-length VR Film, to Preview at Venice Film Festival

Jesus VR: The Story of Christ, an upcoming feature-length 360 film, is getting its first public preview at this year's Venice Film Festival. Hailed as the world's first ever feature length VR film production, the 90-minute movie depicts the life, works, and death of Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus...

Viacom VR Summer Fellowship Fosters Fresh Talent in NYC

The park is green, the mother behind me. She pushes my stroller perfectly straight; we glide across the pavement, green at either side. I face forward and listen to her voice, the only one audible in the park. On...
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Hands-on with the VR Ready Asus GL502VS Laptop with Nvidia GTX 1070

With the latest generation of NVIDIA GPUs, the company opted to stick what they say are desktop-equivalent cards into the next generation of gaming laptops, putting VR Ready performance into highly portable systems. How do they handle? Ritchie Djamhur takes...

Oculus Explains Why They Didn’t Launch Touch with the Rift (Even Though They “Could Have”)

Oculus says they could have shipped Touch alongside the launch of the Rift back in April, but explains why they've been biding their time. Despite delaying their Touch VR motion controller to the latter half of 2016, Oculus says the...

‘Mythica VR’: VR LARP With D&D-style World Building Hits Kickstarter

Arrowstorm Entertainment is what you might call 'serial Kickstarters', as they've successfully completed 13 different campaigns on the crowdfunding site—mostly focusing on small budget sword and sorcery flicks starring the likes of Kevin Sorbo from Hercules (1995) and Kristian Nairn (aka Hodor) from Game of Thrones...

Sketchfab: Largest Social Media Site for 3D Objects Adds VR Navigation

Originally launched in 2012, Sketchfab has grown to be the largest social media website for sharing 3D objects and scenes with over 500,000 members and close to 1 million experiences. At SIGGRAPH, Sketchfab launched their VR browser to be...