Crytek’s Beautiful ‘Back to Dinosaur Island’ VR Tech Demo Now Available on Oculus Rift
Crytek has today released the Back to Dinosaur Island tech demo for download. The five minute demo showing a perturbed T-Rex is compatible with Oculus Rift DK2 headset and built on CryEngine.
First seen at GDC 2015, Back to Dinosaur Island was...
Lebron James’ New 360° Video Mini-Series is Coming Soon to VR
Felix & Paul, the studio that recently signed the “largest live-action VR deal to date” with Oculus, has released three episodes of Lebron James’ new mini-series, Striving for Greatness, via Facebook 360° video.
James’ collaboration with Felix & Paul peers...
Kevin Spacey is Invested in Virtual Reality, Literally
As time goes on and as more and more people have a chance to experience good, cutting edge virtual reality, advocates for the technology are springing up in the most unlikely of places. Now, actor and all round patron...
Official Gear VR Screen Capture Solution Coming Soon
Oculus CTO John Carmack confirmed that an official screen capture solution is on the way to Samsung's Gear VR headset, pending a future update, in response to a question on Twitter.
It isn't clear whether or not 'screen capture' means...
Figment’s Take on the VR iPhone Case May be the Slickest Yet
For 'causal' virtual reality to take off—the kind that you and I can create and share as easily as we do with photos today—it needs to be accessible. Google Cardboard has made important strides in introducing people to...
‘Blackout’ Explores Immersive Narrative in NYC’s Subway, Kickstarter Now Live
Blackout is a narrative virtual reality experience from creative studio Specular which merges a real-time game environment with depth-captured subjects, set in New York City's subway. Having completed principal photography, the studio's Kickstarter campaign aims to finish production for deployment...
50 Years in VR: Tom Furness’ Journey from Making More Lethal Pilots to Non-profit Learning
Tom Furness has been pioneering virtual and augmented reality for the past 50 years, longer than almost anyone else in the world. He has an amazing history that started back in 1966 while he was in the Air Force...
4 Thoughts on Carmack’s ‘VrScript’ from Tony Parisi, Creator of VRML
Oculus CTO John Carmack has been working on a VR scripting environment called—simply enough—VrScript. After getting a glimpse of the environment at Oculus Connect, Tony Parisi had some thoughts to share.
Guest article by Sophia Dominguez
Sophia is the founder of AllThingsVR, a curated newsletter...
‘Cinemas’ Social Home Theater Space for Oculus Rift Launches from Creators of ‘Convrge’
Convrge, the virtual reality social platform known for hosting one of the largest gatherings in social VR history—a shared viewing of the Oculus' pre-E3 event—is now taking the online space in a new direction, one that is decidedly much more intimate...
‘The VOID’ Latest Impressions from a Theme Park Industry Veteran
The latest in a semi-regular series of features where Kevin Williams covers the wider aspects of the re-emergence of virtual reality development in consumer and commercial entertainment. In this special feature Kevin gets a chance to try one of the most...















