The Future of Unity Content Creation Tools & Smart Assets
Sylvio Drouin is the Executive Vice President of Unity Labs, which for the past year has been doing advanced research into VR authoring tools both for developers and consumers as well as graphic research. I caught up with Sylvio...
SteamVR ‘Shell’ is Customizable, Allows Seamless VR Game Switching and Web Browsing
The HTC Vive Pre is now in the hands of press and developers around the world and although hands-on impressions with Vive games are now fairly common, what's the SteamVR interface, where you spend your time between games, like to...
Tactical Haptics’ Reactive Grip Technology is Still Magical
Frank He caught up with Tactical Haptics at VRLA's Winter Expo earlier in the year to get a personally much anticipated hands-on demo of their Reactive Grip technology and finds himself at first disappointed and then astounded at its...
Intel Developing an Augmented Reality Headset Using RealSense, Report Suggests
According to the Wall Street Journal, Chip giant Intel are poised to join the immersive technology race with a new Augmented Reality device using the company's RealSense computer imaging systems.
Major player across industries are racing to join the immersive...
PlayStation VR is “Not to be Used by Children Under 12”
As part of a recent software update, the PlayStation 4's new Healthy and Safety disclaimers now include a message regarding Sony's forthcoming PS4 based VR system PlayStation VR (PSVR). Specifically that it's not to be used by anyone under...
A Company Serving 100 Million Gamers Wants to Help Bring Your VR Game to China
As the country with the single largest population in the world (1.4 billion people), China's gaming market is quite massive, but it's also a massively different marketplace than what we see in the West. Shunwang is the leading platform...
First ‘Golem’ PlayStation VR Exclusive Gameplay Revealed
IGN has gone hands on with the new PlaySyation VR exclusive project from Highwire Games, a studio started by a gaggle of Ex-Halo and Infamous developers, and here's some footage from the session.
We first set eyes on Golem from...
Using VR to Explore the Edge of Intimacy & Polyamory with ‘Viens!’
Michel Reilhac is a French filmmaker who wanted to explore intimacy and polyamory within an immersive 360 video called Viens! (Come!). His Sundance New Frontier piece featured 3 women and four men exploring sensual touch and sexual intimacy with...
Valve Releases First SteamVR Developer Roundtable Discussion Video
Filmed as part of the recent SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, Valve have released the first in what appears to be a series of discussions with developers working on titles for the SteamVR platform and the HTC Vive.
Headed by...
VR Animated Series ‘Sequenced’ Creates Truly Reactive Storytelling in VR
Sequenced is an upcoming animated series by Apelab for VR headsets that's pioneering a new method of delivering episodic content, one that tailors itself to the individual viewer in the slightest way imaginable. And all that Sequenced wants from you, the passive...
