‘Disney Movies VR’ Needs More Real VR Content and Less Blatant Brand Engagement
Virtual reality is growing at an enormous pace, and while we live in a time where more than a million monthly Gear VR users actively consume VR content, and dedicated VR shops pop up in China—it's no wonder that a...
What to Expect at I/O 2016: Android VR, the Missing All-in-one Headset, and the Fate of...
Google’s annual I/O conference kicks off tomorrow and we’re expecting VR to be a major part of the event. Here’s a look at everything we know and what we expect to see from Google’s virtual reality initiatives.
Android N Bakes...
NVIDIA GTX 1080 Performance Review: Head to Head Against the 980 Ti
NVIDIA's next generation virtual reality GPU will soon be here, and it's all new. But how much more power is under the hood of the GTX 1080, the first graphics card based on the company's new Pascal architecture? We...
NVIDIA Explains Pascal’s ‘Lens Matched Shading’ for More Efficient VR Rendering
The graphics pipeline in NVIDIA's new 'Pascal' GPUs has been rearchitected with features which can significantly enhance VR rendering performance. Here the company explains how Simultaneous Multi-projection and Lens Matched Shading work together to increase VR rendering efficiency.
As the name...
Time Perception Research & Manipulating Time Dilation Effects in VR
At Oculus Connect 2015, SVVR's Karl Krantz told me that he accidentally spent 12 straight hours in VR and only thought that 3 hours had passed. I then started hearing a lot more time dilation stories from Owlchemy Labs'...
HTC Will Install Your Vive For $250, Now in Select U.S. Cities
Are you the sort of person that has a hard time installing surround sound stereo equipment, or building IKEA shelves? Well, HTC is now offering customers a premium installation service to take the hassle out of setting up the Vive, a...
Future of VR on the Open Web: WebVR, WebGL 2, & WebAssembly
Brandon Jones has been one of the lead developers on the WebVR API over the past couple of years as part of his 20% project at Google. He announced this week that he's now going to be working on...
Acer Partners with Starbreeze to Design and Manufacture StarVR Headset
Game developer Starbreeze has announced a new partnership with consumer electronics firm Acer to further the development of its high FOV, high resolution VR headset, StarVR.
Starbreeze made a sizeable splash at E3 last summer when the unveiled StarVR, their 210 degree,...
HTC Vive Orders Halted in U.S. “Due to Extraordinary Demand” [Update]
The HTC Vive has recently become listed as "out of stock" for U.S. orders. The company says it's no longer taking orders for the headset in the region "due to extraordinary demand."
Update (5/14/16, 7:59 PM): HTC has confirmed via...
VR Healthcare Applications & the Digital Health Revolution
Walter Greenleaf has been researching medical applications of virtual reality since 1984, and he believes that healthcare is going to be transformed by consumer VR & AR technologies. Walter says that VR is fitting into a number of different...
