Survey: 78% of AR/VR Developers Not Planning Platform-exclusive Content
In a survey published by VRDC, AR and VR developers are largely leaning toward platform agnostic development for their next projects.
While Oculus and Valve/HTC continue to take two different approaches to stoking the development of VR games and applications—Oculus...
PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Had “Quickest Sellout in GameStop’s History”
GameStop executives have revealed that the last pre-order event for the soon-to-be-released PlayStation VR was the "Quickest Sellout" in the company's history.
GameStop held its 2016 second quarter fiscal year conference call this week, and Sony's forthcoming PlayStation VR, due...
President Obama Makes His 360 Video Debut
Felix & Paul Studios got together with Oculus Studios and National Geographic to shoot 360 video footage of President Barack Obama's recent Father's Day trip to Yosemite National Park, becoming the first official appearance by Obama in a VR...
Oculus is Working on a ‘Chaperone’-like Boundary System for Touch
Physically moving your body around to move through the virtual world is a great way to enhance immersion, but it can be potentially dangerous if users lose a sense of their real world surroundings. To keep users safe, Valve...
Highlights from the SIGGRAPH 2016 VR Village with Denise Quesnel
There was a VR Village again this year at the SIGGRAPH 2016 conference where a lot of experimental interactive technologies were on display. I had a chance to talk to the program chair Denise Quesnel about some of the content...
‘Obduction’ Oculus Rift Support Coming “in a few weeks,” Included With All Copies of the Game
Obduction, the hotly anticipated adventure puzzle game from the creators of Myst (1993), launched on PC on August 24th, but did so before the Oculus Rift version of the game was ready for release. Now the creators say it...
‘Rick and Morty’ Co-creator & Former Epic Games Exec. Producer Form New VR Studio, Squanchtendo
With a name that could only have come from the mind of Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland, Squanchtendo is a VR game studio founded by Roiland and former Epic Games producer Tanya Watson to " edgy, mature comedy with refined, high-end...
Uncorporeal Claims They Can Create 3D VR Scenes from Your Photos
Uncorporeal are unveiling what it terms as it's "Holographic Photography Technology" which the team claim will allow anyone with a smartphone to create 360 VR viewable scenes with 3D parallax from a few dozen photos.
Static photogrammetry, the process of capturing...
Amazon’s VR-capable Lumberyard Game Engine Sustained by AWS Cloud Services
Back in February, Amazon announced that they had purchased and forked Crytek's CryEngine and made the full source code available in a free AAA VRgame engine offering called Lumberyard. The only catch is that if you want to use...
This Live Mixed Reality Solution Uses Kinect to Eliminate Green Screen
This project uses Kinect depth cameras to the fuse virtual and the real to produce real-time mixed reality footage with no green screens required, all using Microsoft's depth camera Kinect.
Mixed reality is all the rage and has become one...
