VR as Empathy Machine: Under Promise, Over Deliver
The latest in a series of regular articles exploring virtual reality, Noah Nelson today ponders how the rise of VR film-making may be scuppered by traditionalist attitudes towards the medium and how VR's power to promote human empathy might just not...
CCP Games Secure $30M To Expand VR Development
CCP Games, the company behind the hugely successful 'EVE' franchise and early VR adopters with VR space combat shooter EVE:Valkyrie, have announced they're to expand their efforts in VR development with the help of $30M in funding.
CCP Games are...
This Leap Motion Shooter is Inspired by Dreamcast Classic ‘Rez’
Motion sensing peripheral specialists Leap Motion's second development event '3D Jam' has had over 180 submissions for projects that fuse the Leap's input capabilities with virtual reality. This entry 'VRez', inspired by classic Dreamcast shooter Rez, caught our eye as a...
Daniel Fearon on Designing ‘Scorched Battalion’ Turn-Based VR Artillery Game
Daniel "SvenViking" Fearon is a developer behind the Scorched Battalion turn-based artillery game, which won the Silver prize for the Oculus Mobile Game Jam. Daniel talks about some of the design principles between alternating between first and third-person perspectives,...
How to Record Samsung Gear VR Videos with HQ Audio and Commentary
So, you've got the right Samsung phone and you're sitting patiently for your new Gear VR—currently available for pre-order from Best Buy—which is bound to come any day now, right? There's loads of fun virtual reality apps to download...
Play Fallout 4 in VR, with the Latest VorpX Update
VorpX, the drivers that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift, has just received an update that brings with it official preliminary support for the newly released Fallout 4.
Hot on the heels of...
Hands-on: LucidCam Captures Surprising VR Imagery From a Sleek and Pocketable Package
In a world all too full of crowdfunding campaigns built on an idea and some rendered mockups, I was impressed to see LucidCam CEO Han Jin pull a polished and functional VR camera out of his pocket—even more so when...
Building Empathy with a 360-degree Video about a Sexual Assault from Two Perspectives
Specular Theory CMO Ryan Pulliam and founder Morris May talk about some of the 360-degree video experiences that they've produced over the last year including an edgy Sundance film called Perspective: The Party, which tells the story of a...
OTOY Teases Gear VR Positional Light Fields Using Valve Tracking Tech
OTOY, one of the leading pioneers of digital light field rendering, has tweeted an intriguing snippet claiming they've managed to leverage Valve's Lighthouse tracking to add positional tracking to Samsung's mobile phone powered Gear VR headset.
OTOY have been making...
Preview: ‘Korix’ is a Deceptively Simple Cross Between RTS and Tower Defense
The blocky architecture of Korix may look simple, but in this real time strategy-meets-tower defense, appearances can be deceiving. Warning: you may be overwhelmed with the sudden urge to flip over the virtual game board.
Korix is a retro-style real time strategy...
