Leaked HoloLens ‘Actiongram’ Videos Show What Interacting with Windows in AR Looks Like

New instructional videos, supposedly leaked from a HoloLens development program, give us a glimpse at what every day interaction with Windows running in Augmented Reality looks like. Microsoft first unveiled their augmented reality headset HoloLens at a special Windows 10 event last...

United Nations Partner with Vrse on Gaza VR Documentary

VR production company Vrse.works has once again partnered with the United Nations on 'My Mothers Wing', a 360 film designed to portray the resilience of he human spirit in the face of Israeli / Palestinian violence in Gaza. Whilst the...
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Time Machine VR Launches with HTC Vive in April, New Trailer Lands

Minority Media have released a new trailer to celebrate the forthcoming launch of its time-travelling, subterranean adventure title Time Machine VR. From the makers of critical hit indie game Papo & Yo, Time Machine VR has you piloting the titular flying...
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Six Flags to Use Gear VRs on New VR Roller Coaster Experiences

The US theme park Six Flags has announced it's to partner with Samsung to bring VR roller coasters to a selection of its theme parks in 2016 using Gear VR headsets. It seems 2016 is the year theme parks cottoned...
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Explore Game of Thrones’ Castle Black in a New Fan-Made VR Experience

The Night's Watch has a sacred duty: to protect Westeros from whatever it is that lives beyond the Wall. But you don't need to take the sacred oath (or swear to celibacy) to traipse around Castle Black or experience the...

Adi Robertson on Sundance Highlights and VR History

Adi Robertson is a senior reporter for The Verge, and she was at Sundance covering the latest developments of VR storytelling. I caught up with her to unpack some of her New Frontier highlights including narrative innovations, how empathy...
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‘Evolution Pinball VR’ is the ’80s Style Pinball Showdown You Always Wanted as a Kid

Pinball machines are a dying breed, but Evolution Pinball VR: The Summoning aims to put you back in touch with the arcade classic with the help of virtual reality. Now in its first Steam Greenlight campaign, The Summoning promises to deliver physics...

Karl Krantz on VR Startups, SVVRCon, and Time Dilation

Karl Krantz made a strategic move to California in order to start the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality meetup in May of 2013. One year later, he organized the first consumer VR conference with SVVRCon that had 400 people and...

Oculus Founder: Rift Will Support Mac “If they ever release a [high performance] computer”

While Oculus had once supported the Rift on both Mac OSX and Linux with early builds of their SDK, it was back in early 2015 that they indefinitely "paused" support for those platforms. Now Oculus founder Palmer Luckey says...

Hands-on: Meta 2 Could Do for Augmented Reality What Rift DK1 Did for Virtual Reality

The Meta 2 development kit, made available for pre-order by the company today, isn't perfect. But then again neither was the Rift DK1, and it didn't need to be. It only needed to be good enough that just a...