Consumer Gear VR May be up for Pre-Order November 10th
Samsung's mobile phone (and Oculus) powered Gear VR vr headset us to become available for pre-order in its first consumer form on November 10th according to a user who attended a recent Best Buy tech demo. The new $99,...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – November #1
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
CastleCoaster is a clone of the legendary RiftCoaster roller coaster. CastleCoaster is...
Virtual Tours of Real Estate Units with uForis VR
Dora Cheng is one of the co-founders of uForis VR, which is a VR company that is focused on creating pragmatic applications of virtual reality. One of their first big VR projects was to create virtual tours for the...
A Look at Crowdfunding’s Role in the Virtual Reality Renaissance
Guest writer Sebastian Bos takes a historical look at virtual reality's affinity and maturity has been symbiotic with the growth in popularity of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. Although, as Sebastian explores, it hasn't always been plain sailing.
Sebastian Bos is...
Review: ‘Dead Secret’ is one of the Early Great Successes in VR Thrillers
Relying on jumpscares in VR to make a game frightening is fundamentally lazy. There's no finesse, no building terror that creeps inside you, just the looming possibility that a ghoul can flash in front of your face, thereby activating whatever...
SEA VR Returns as the Largest VR Event in the US Northwest
Michael Glombicki shares his thoughts on the recent SEA-VR virtual reality community event, held in Seattle last month, and ponders the future of the community scene as VR becomes a mainstream technology.
Michael Glombicki is Seattle based software engineer who...
Oculus Connect 2 Developer Session Videos Now Online
Outside of the more visible publicity surrounding announcements at Oculus Connect 2 in September, the event is of course primarily a developer focused event, designed to bring creators up to speed with the latest in virtual reality techniques and technology....
Facebook Expects First Year VR Headset Shipments in Line with Early Smartphones, in the “Hundreds of Thousands”
During today's Facebook Q3 2015 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg set measured expectations for first year shipments of VR headsets.
The consumer VR industry has been in an R&D phase for the last few years but the beginning of the...
Now Watch Any 3D 360 YouTube Video on Google Cardboard
YouTube today announced that on top of its support for monscopic 360 video that Google Cardboard owners will now be able to view stereoscopic 360-degree video as well any YouTube video in virtual reality just by toggling a built-in 'theater mode'.
YouTube...
E McNeill on Designing the Real-Time Strategy VR Game Tactera
I had a chance to catch up with E McNeill at Oculus Connect about his design process for the Real-Time Strategy game called Tactera, which he developed for the Oculus Mobile Game Jam. He talks about some of the...
