Rendering the Metaverse with Otoy’s Volumetric Lightfield Streaming

Digital lightfields are a cutting-edge technology that can render photorealistic VR scenes, and Otoy has been a pioneer of the rendering and compression techniques to deal with the massive amounts of data required to create them. Their OctaneRender is...

Embodied Cognition: Using VR Dance to Teach Computational Thinking

During the Enlightenment, René Descartes declared that the mind and body were split and that we should think about them as separate dualistic entities. But more and more evidence is pointing to the fact that our bodies are much...

OSVR HDK 2160×1200 Screen Upgrade Kit Now Available

OSVR has launched a display upgrade kit for the HDK headset which allows users to swap a new, higher performance panel into their existing HDK headsets. The $220 screen upgrade kit, sold at the OSVR Store, offers HDK 1.3 &...

‘TheWaveVR’ Raises $2.5 Million Seed Investment for Social VR Music Platform

TheWaveVR is a social VR music platform which allows DJs to mix tracks live in VR in front of a virtual audience which can connect to experience the performance from around the world. The company announced today that it's raised...

Valve Opens Vive’s Tracking Tech to Third-parties for Free, Details Dev Kit for Licensees

Valve today announced that it will provide royalty-free licensing to third parties interested in using the SteamVR 'Lighthouse' tracking technology to create new tracked objects like VR controllers and other peripherals. Lighthouse is Valve's system that provides the 'room-scale' tracking...

Living Stories: What VR Can Learn from Immersive Theater

When the recession hit in 2008, book publisher Charlie Melcher looked to reinvent how Melcher Media told stories using the latest smart phone technologies. They developed an iOS app for Al Gore's Our Choice, and started having a lot...

Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

You can now register to attend Oculus' 3rd 'Connect' conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th,...

‘Everest VR’ Review

Some things in life really need to be experienced first hand, and the ascent of Mount Everest is probably pretty high up on that list. Photos and videos can’t compare to the real thing, but VR just might. Step...

Watch Real Madrid vs. Bayern Munich Tonight in VR

Bundesliga champions FC Bayern Munich are up against La Liga's Real Madrid tonight for the 2016 International Champions Cup, and providing you have a Gear VR, you can watch it livestreaming in virtual reality starting August 3rd at 7:30 PM...

Interactive Lab to Make VR Trike Racing a Thing at VRLA This Week

Interactive Lab bring something you never knew you wanted to try to this year's VRLA Summer Expo, virtual reality room-scale and untethered trike racing. You know when you see something completely new and unexpected and want to try it immediately?...