Minecraft for Gear VR Now Available, Brings First Person and Comfort Modes

Oculus' long fought partnership with Microsoft, to bring the enormously successful social, creative Minecraft franchise to VR, begins with a release to Samsung Gear VR today as the title hits the Oculus Store. Oculus' CTO has gone on record saying...

Redirected Touch: Using Perceptual Hacks to Create Convincing Haptics

Redirected walking is a concept within VR that tricks a user into walking into circles, but gives them visual feedback that they're walking in a straight line. We tend to trust our visual input over our other senses, and...

VREAL’s Innovative VR Livestreaming Platform Feels Like Something Completely New

Today VREAL is taking the shroud off of their VR livestreaming platform that puts viewers inside the game, right next to their favorite streamers. The unique mashup of virtual reality, game streaming, and social interaction feels like something we've...

‘Chornobyl360’ Explores the Legacy of the Nuclear Disaster, Kickstarter Now Live

Today is the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and in commemoration a group of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers have set out to capture the wreckage that was once the city of Pripyat and its surrounding countryside. The 360 film aims...

HTC Just Earmarked $100 Million to Invest in VR Content, Applications Open Today

Looking to get your VR project off the ground? HTC might be able to help. The company has just announced a $100 million fund attached to the 'Vive X' accelerator program. Announced at an HTC conference today in Beijing, Vive X...

VR on the Open Web with A-Frame and WebVR

Is VR on the open web going to provide a good enough experience as to be a viable distribution platform for certain VR content? That's the big question that people have been asking for the past couple of years,...

‘BigScreen’ Lets You Throw Virtual LAN Parties, Desktop Mirroring in VR

BigScreen is a social VR app currently in beta for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive that lets you livestream your monitor to friends in an online environment, essentially letting you throw a virtual LAN party or movie night with your best...

Project Sansar ‘Creator Preview’ Sign Ups are Now Open, Launches in Summer

Project Sansar from Second Life creator Linden Lab is a new virtual world, built for virtual reality which promises world building tools capable of generating beautiful, shareable worlds online. Now, Linden Lab has announced it's opened the sign up process...

Kevin Cornish on The Future of Interactive Storytelling

Kevin Cornish is a LA-based VR filmmaker who teamed up with AMD to do some interactive narrative experiments using gazed-based content in Believe VR. Depending on which character you look at different moments will triggered up to 32 different...

Disney Signs Nokia Deal to Use OZO VR Camera

Nokia Technologies today announced that it will be providing The Walt Disney Studios with OZO, the company's 360 degree camera. Disney will use the camera to create 'special VR content' for upcoming films. Disney recently used OZO to create two 360 videos for The...