‘Casino VR’ Now Offers In-App Chip Purchases
Casino VR, a free multiplayer poker game for Gear VR and Oculus Rift, now allows you to buy chips to fuel your need for table dominance. And no, you can't spend them (yet).
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Kite & Lightning Raises $2.5M for ‘Bebylon’, a “mini-Sword Art Online”
Kite & Lightning, an LA-based studio known for some of the burgeoning VR industry's most polished experiences, today announced that their next big project, the VR vehicular melee party brawler Bebylon Battle Royale, has been funded to the tune of $2.5...
AMD Announces Radeon Pro WX 7100 GPU Focused on Professional VR Film Editing
In an event at SIGGRAPH this evening, AMD's Radeon Technology Group introduced a new line of 'Radeon Pro' WX-series GPUs. AMD has aimed the WX 7100 specifically at virtual reality content creation.
Radeon Pro WX 7100 Release Date, Specs, and Price
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NVIDIA’s New Quadro P6000 GPU Targets VR Industry Professionals
NVIDIA has announced its latest line of professional focused GPUs aimed at the VR industry and its specs impress, as does its potential price.
NVIDIA's Quadro series of GPUs is almost as old as the GeForce brand itself. Long before GPU...
NVIDIA Announces ‘VRWorks 360’, Claims “Real-Time” VR Video Stitching
SIGGRAPH 2016 is underway, and as is traditional for NVIDIA, the company has brought with it a raft of professional and prosumer to announce. And for those involved in the rapidly expanding world of 360 video and film, they're announcing...
ILMxLab Experimenting with 8 GPU Rendering to Bring Photoreal Graphics to VR
ILMxLab, the experimental division of Lucasfilm's VFX house, Industrial Light & Magic, is experimenting with large GPU arrays of up to eight cards in an effort to bring movie-quality graphics to virtual reality.
While the graphical capabilities of real-time game...
‘Lawnmower Man’ Director Brett Leonard on Building Storyworlds
Brett Leonard's journey into VR all started when he moved to Santa Cruz and started partying and smoking pot with some of the elite visionaries from the Silicon Valley technology scene. He was an aspiring writer and film director...
Mobile VR Headset Veeso Aims to Bring Face Tracking to VR
Veeso, a recently launched Kickstarter project, is aiming to be the first to market with a mobile VR headset that tracks your face's movement; a system that uses head-mounted infrared cameras to track both your eyes and mouth for...
Exploring Methods for Conveying Object Weight in Virtual Reality
With no way of generating resistive force feedback with today's VR motion controllers, how can we make users feel and behave as though virtual objects have varying weights? Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for...
Update Opens the Door for Enhanced Roomscale Tracking with Rift and Touch
A recent update to Oculus Home has enabled support for tracking the Rift and Touch with up to four trackers, enabling robust coverage of a roomscale space.
While Oculus doesn't officially support 'roomscale' experiences like those on the HTC Vive,...














