Insights into the Public Perception of VR from Viral Video Reactions

Eva Hoerth is a VR design researcher & community organizer, and she enjoys recording videos of people as they're immersed within a VR experience. She shot a video of of her co-worker in VR trying out the latest Leap...

HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Install Base, Steam Data Suggests [Update]

While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark. Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...

Immersive Computing Platform ‘Envelop VR’ Begins Closed Beta Program

Envelop VR want to pull your every day computing environment into the virtual realm as the company launch their first closed beta for what they describe as "an immersive computing platform that brings the best out of your PC while...

Stepping Inside ‘Ghostbusters: Dimension’, the VOID-powered Mixed Reality ‘Ride’

Standing in the lobby for thirty minutes, watching the crowd lumber by in the distinctive mode of Times Square tourists, overlain with the Ghostbusters theme (endlessly looped), I thought, without any special vigor, about where I was, and why...

Combining Game & Story with ‘The London Heist’ + Reflections on Exclusive VR Content

Sony's The London Heist is one of the best fusions of narrative VR storytelling with interactive game components. It's structured as a flashback sequence starting with you being confronted within an interrogation room, and there are branching narratives that...

Catching Up with nDreams’ ‘The Assembly’, Coming to Rift and Vive July 19th

The Assembly from nDreams is coming soon, and with an official release date of July 19th now announced, we thought we'd take some time to catch up on this intriguing story-driven thriller built from the ground up for VR. The...

Nintendo May Skip VR for its Forthcoming NX Console, Report Suggests

Nintendo's recently delayed follow up to its Wii U console, code-named NX, now seems unlikely to feature any core VR technology, according to indication from top executive Shigeru Miyamoto at an annual shareholder meeting this week. Nintendo needs new hardware, badly. Its...

HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR

This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...

Starbreeze Bolsters VR & AR Team with $1.65M Acquisition of ePawn

Starbreeze continues to make strategic VR/AR partnerships as today it has announced a $1.65M acquisition of augmented reality and "toys to life" company ePawn, who bring them some intriguing technologies with potential applications for the immersive space. Starbreeze seems to...

Social Dynamics Within Sony’s PlayStation VR Social VR Experiments

At GDC this year, Sony revealed some of their first experiments into social VR with a four-person demo that was showing at their press event. The avatars looked like South Park characters, and the thumbs up or down gestures...