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...

‘Pokémon Go’ is Where I Draw the Line on “Augmented Reality”

The announcement video for Pokémon Go, an "augmented reality" game for smartphones, opens by asking us to "imagine Pokémon in the real world." And imagination is exactly what you'll need to consider the game as landing anywhere within the realm of augmented reality. Pokémon Go might be...

Google is Adding a VR Shell to Chrome to Let You Browse the Entire Web in...

Google is working to add fully immersive browsing capability to Chrome, allowing users to browse any part of the web in VR, not just those sites that are specially built for VR. Google has played an active role in helping to...
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First Look Inside ‘The Void’ Ghostbusters: Dimension, Opens July 1st

The Void are one of the first mixed reality experience specialists and their first big experience opens to the public July 1st at Madame Tussauds New York. It's called Ghostbusters: Dimension and here's a sneak peak. It feels like only 5 minutes ago we...

AMD Launches RX 480, the $199 VR-Ready GPU

AMD today launched the Radeon RX 480, the company's budget-friendly GPU that promises to lower the barrier of entry into virtual reality. And while VR still isn't exactly what you'd call cheap, budget-conscious consumers looking to upgrade their old...

Watch Rick and Morty Creator Justin Roiland Sketching and Riffing in VR

Social platform AltspaceVR welcomed voice actor and creator of cult show Rick and Morty, Justin Roiland who joined a virtual audience inside the social VR platform where he drew, riffed and generally entertained everyone. Justin Roiland is one of those...

Latest ‘Revive’ Update Lets You Play 35 Oculus Home Games on HTC Vive

Revive, the mod which lets HTC Vive owners play games released only on Oculus Home, has just got a new release and is now compatible with 35 titles in the Oculus Store. Revive, a free mod project created by LibreVR in...
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Hands-on: ‘New Retro Arcade’ Tech Demo HTC Vive Gameplay

New Retro Arcade has finally got the roomscale treatment with newly released support for the HTC Vive (and Oculus Rift CV1) through Steam. Even back in 2014, long before HTC or Oculus announced their intention to create VR controllers, it was...

IBM’s Interactive Media CTO on Using Watson for Game Design, Interactive Narratives, & Conversational Interfaces

Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it's starting to enter into game development with IBM's Watson. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST http://d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Voices-of-VR-390-George-Dolbier.mp3 For instance, developers could integrate cloud-based AI services into...