Inside ‘Ixian Gate’ – An Otherworldly, Surrealist Dream Come to Life
Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert's iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies...
What $136 Million Invested in November Alone Says About the VR Industry
Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is...
Valve Adds Support for Latest Oculus Rift SDK in SteamVR Update
Amidst ongoing development of Valve's SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime.
Apparently in an effort to ensure continued support for the Oculus Rift through SteamVR, a November...
Oculus to Talk Rift “Family Screen Time” at CES 2016
Oculus' Head of Display Technology is set to talk at CES on the subject of how the Oculus Rift VR Headset, due for launch in Q1 2016, might just be the "The Family Friend" when it comes to entertaining...
Watch Halo Played on Microsoft HoloLens in Augmented Reality
This is a video of Microsoft project manager Varun Mani, streaming a game of Halo: Guardians to his HoloLens, presented through the magic of augmented reality, straight onto his walls.
Microsoft's augmented reality wonder-toy HoloLens has flirted with the idea of becoming...
New England Patriots Giving Away 10K Cardboard Viewers at Today’s Game
The push to 360 video for marketing experiences continues as Bank of America and Visa collaborate with US football team the New England Patriots to deliver a Google Cardboard 360 video experience which aims to give you a glimpse...
‘Uncanny Valley’ Explores a Dystopian Vision of Virtual Reality and Drone Warfare
A new short film from Federico Heller explores a well travelled dystopian sci-fi narrative territory—addiction to future technologies, war and murder’s gamification, a lone male protagonist’s sudden epiphany regarding a virtual reality’s illusion—in a brightly polished vehicle.
Aside from interviews with...
EA’s Frostbite Engine “Building a Small and Collaborative VR Team”
Frostbite, the Electronic Arts-produced game engine behind popular titles such as the Mirror's Edge series and the Battlefield series, is looking to expand into virtual reality.
Johan Andersson, the technical director on Frostbite at EA DICE, recently tweeted out that the studio will...
First Look at ‘Distance’, a Survival Racing Coming to PlayStation VR
A PlayStation VR version of Distance, a new futuristic multiplayer survival racer developed by Seattle-based indie studio Refract, made its debut at this weekend's PlayStation Experience 2015 in San Francisco.
Distance is riddled with obstacles, but don't count on doing laps around a loop...
13 Trippy Screenshots of the new ‘Rez Infinite’ for PlayStation VR
15 years after the launch of the original Rez (2001) on Dreamcast, the new Rez Infinite (2016) will come to PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR.
On the official PlayStation Blog, Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi says that Rez Infinite is "the futuristic...
