360fly Catches $40 Million in Series C Funding for Consumer-focused 360 Cameras
Thanks to the recent, headline-capturing releases of both the Vive and the Rift, investment money is continuing to pour into VR-based initiatives and complimentary hardware. An additional $40 million in Series C funding has gone into the coffers of...
VR Film Studio Felix & Paul Release ‘Nomads’ 360 Documentary Series
Felix and Paul Studios, creators of the Daytime Emmy Award-winning Inside the Box of Kurios and Inside Impact: East Africa, today launched Nomads—a new 360 video app that takes you inside the lives of the some of the world's far-flung nomadic tribes.
Studio co-founders...
Gear VR Tops 1 Million Monthly Active Users
Oculus today announced a major milestone for Gear VR, the company's mobile VR headset made in collaboration with Samsung.
Gear VR launched at the end of 2015 with an agreeable price of $99. Following an aggressive giveaway alongside pre-orders of...
Google Shows HTC Vive Running at 90 FPS in Chrome with WebVR
At SVVR 2016, Google's Boris Smus took to the stage to present the latest advances in the WebVR platform that aims to bring virtual reality to the web.
After allowing browsers to interact with VR headsets, another major challenge of...
Open vs Closed Metaverse: Project Sansar & The New Experiential Age
Linden Lab's Second Life has been one of the largest and most successful virtual world ecosystems with nearly 13 years of existence. But Linden Lab recognized that the infrastructure and foundations of Second Life was not going to be...
Infinitus Prime is an Enterprise Focused VR Headset with 5k Horizontal Resolution
The latest virtual reality headset to join the race is a headset not bothering to court the consumer market at at all. The Infinitus Prime tVR headset packs two 1440p displays and the Czech company behind the project are...
Fred Brooks on Ivan Sutherland’s 1965 “Ultimate Display” Speech
Fred Brooks was in the process of looking for his next research agenda when he heard Ivan Sutherland give a speech in 1965 at a computer conference that laid out his vision for future of virtual reality. Sutherland said...
My Unopened Oculus Rift and Why the Vive Stole My Heart
I have a confession to make: my Rift CV1 arrived two weeks ago and I only just opened it. You see... I was busy the night it arrived, and then the next day the Vive arrived, and it has...
The Void to Power New Ghostbusters VR Experience at Madame Tussauds NY
Ghostbusters is coming to virtual reality courtesy of the team at The Void, who are bringing their mixed reality technology to bear on a new VR experience based on the latest movie in the franchise. What's more, you'll be...
Nvidia’s VRWorks Audio Brings Physically Based 3D GPU Accelerated Sound
At Nvidia's special Editors Day event in Austin, Texas, the company unveiled an enhancement to it's VRWorks APIs which now includes what it says is the first "Physically Based Acoustic Simulator Engine", accelerated by Nvidia GPUs.
Nvidia and AMD's focus on...














