AMD’s Roy Taylor on New GPUs, Tools, & Consumer VR Pods
I had a chance to catch up with AMD's Roy Taylor, VP of Alliances, Content, and VR, at VRLA to hear more about AMD's recent announcements, their open source philosophy, their support for VR storytellers, and the upcoming VR...
NextVR Raises $80 Million with an Eye on International Expansion
NextVR, a firm specializing in live VR streaming, has today announced an $80 million Series B investment with which the company aims to expand international operations.
"The Series B investment positions NextVR to accelerate development of its virtual reality platform...
Walt Disney’s Patrick Osborne on ‘Pearl’, a Powerful VR Story about Selfless Service
People were waiting in lines for over an hour to see Pearl both at SIGGRAPH and VRLA, which is one of the best narrative VR experiences that I've seen so far. The central character in the story is a...
OSVR Co-founder on the Future of Open Source Virtual Reality
OSVR is an open source software platform and VR headset. Sensics and Razer launched OSVR 18 months ago with the intent of democratizing VR. Our goal is to provide an open alternative to walled-garden, single-device approaches.
Guest Article by Yuval Boger
Yuval is...
Striker VR Shows off Working Prototype of ARENA Infinity Haptic VR Gun
Striker VR's ARENA Infinity is a haptic VR gun which can simulate various weapon fire modes and other haptic effects. After revealing the design of the accessory back in April, the company is now showing off a working prototype.
Based...
‘Mindshow’ Revealed by Visionary VR – Stage, Animate, and Record Your Own Stories in VR
Visionary VR today revealed Mindshow at VRLA Summer Expo 2016. The application aims to give anyone access to simple tools to tell stories in virtual reality.
After raising $6 million in venture capital earlier this year, Visionary VR has come out...
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...
