Free Oculus Rift to be Sent to Pre-Kickstarter Backers, Source Claims
It seems as if those VR pioneers that were part of the revolution prior to Oculus forming and starting their successful campaign to bring the Rift to life, may also now receive a consumer Oculus Rift.
The Rift VR headset,...
NextVR Takes You to the Spectacular Opening Ceremony of 2016 Youth Olympic Games
Yesterday marked the start of the 2016 Youth Olympic winter games held in Norway. VR video company NextVR was on the scene to stream the opening ceremony and will be capturing highlights throughout the event.
With the Olympic tradition of...
VR Puzzler ‘Dimensional’ Has Interesting VR Locomotion Ideas, On Kickstarter Now
Dimensional from UK developers is a built-for-VR puzzle platformer for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift which leverage's experimental locomotion ideas to tackle nausea and enhance presence. The project has just hit Kickstarter, so we thought we'd take a...
VR Music Experience ‘Polydome’ Now Available on Gear VR via Oculus Concepts
Polydome from developer Plan8, is a VR music experience that encourages you to "create endless musical combinations and permutations by connecting sequences of floating gems", and it's just arrived for free via Oculus Share's 'Concepts' category.
Part of last year's Oculus'...
Syfy’s New Crime Drama ‘Halycon’ Will Feature 5 ‘Made for VR’ Episodes
NBCUniveral's Syfy channel have announced its new, futuristic crime drama 'Halycon' will include the production of 5 special episodes, designed to be viewed through the Oculus Rift VR headset.
The new series comes from Emmy award-winning studio Secret Location, makers...
Block Interval’s Story-centric ‘Life of Lon’ Gameplay Trailer to Air at VRWC 2016
Developer Block Interval is due to treat show goers to 5-7 minutes of gameplay for its brand new "story-centric" VR adventure puzzler Life of Lon at UK based VR event VR World Congress in April.
Started as a more traditional, and...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – February #2
Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences.
A VR experience inspired by 'The Shining'.
You're the new caretaker at The...
VR Pioneer Nonny de la Peña Discusses Empathy in VR
Chris Milk's TED talk last year popularized the idea that virtual reality has the potential to be the ultimate 'empathy machine.' Emblematic Group's Nonny de la Peña has been one of the original pioneers of exploring empathy in VR...
Secretary of Defense Peers into the Future at Navy VR Research Lab
The Secretary of Defense—second only to the President in control of the US military—recently stopped by the Navy's BEMR lab to see the latest work being done with VR, AR, and mixed reality technology.
Get ready for some fun acronyms:...
Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity
Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically.
It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...
