National Geographic and “Hurt Locker” Director Team Up on New VR Film
National Geographic are further committing themselves to immersive film-making as they announce a new VR short, co-directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Director of The Hurt Locker, which aims to bring the terrible plight of the African Elephant to VR.
National Geographic are to...
HTC Vive Now Shipping With a New VR Game Bundle
The free three-game bundle that comes with the purchase of an HTC Vive is now featuring two new titles.
HTC today debuted a new game bundle for new purchases of the Vive. The Gallery: Call of the Starseed and Zombie...
Social Presence & Training Social Dynamics with Virtual Humans
Team training scenarios are often difficult due to the logistics involved with coordinating many different people's schedules. One solution has been to use virtual humans as stand-ins for actual humans in team training scenarios where the conversation is mediated...
Elders React to the HTC Vive with Joy, Fear, and Disbelief at How Far Technology Has...
...granted, that's not much different than how the rest of the world reacts to it in their first try of VR, but this video (above) in the 'Elders React' series is too good to pass up.
Fine Brothers Entertainment took...
‘Virtual Reality Challenge’ Promises UK’s “largest VR-only Game Jam ever”
Fellow virtual reality news outlet VRFocus has launched 'Virtual Reality Challenge' and has hopes for it to become the largest hackathon of its kind in the UK dedicated to virtual reality content.
Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace...
Mindshow’s VR Movie-making Helped Me Rediscover the Joy of Play-acting
Frank He rediscovers his childhood and finds a new talent for improvisational performance as he goes hands on with Mindshow, a new virtual reality application that lets you create and act in your own interactive movies.
A childhood experience some of us...
‘Minecraft’ on Oculus Rift Launches Next Week, Touch Support Coming Later This Year
Minecraft developer Mojang has confirmed that the popular sandbox game is finally coming to the Oculus Rift next week, and further that the game would get support for Oculus' Touch VR controllers later this year.
During an official Xbox stream, members of...
‘Headmaster’ & Why the Physics of Stuff Flying at Your Face is so Compelling in VR
When Ben Throop went to the Boston VR hackathon in June 2014, he didn't know that Valve was going to be showing off some prototype VR hardware that had positional tracking. At this point the Oculus DK2 had not...
OSVR HDK 2 Headset Gets Detailed Teardown – Scores High in Repairability
The venerable iFixit has done it again: taken a brand new, perfectly good VR headset and ripped it apart for our pleasure.
OSVR's recently launched HDK 2 headset is starting to land in the hands of eager users. iFixit has promptly...
Killer Raptors and Crash Landings – ‘Robinson: The Journey’ Dev Diary Explores Crytek’s Second VR Title
Robinson: The Journey is Crytek's second VR game, coming to PSVR, following The Climb which was launched earlier this year for the Oculus Rift. A new development diary explores the game's premise, design philosophy, and killer raptors.
Crytek has long been...
