SEER 100 Degree FOV ‘Augmented Reality’ Headset Approaches $100,000 Kickstarter Goal

SEER, an augmented reality device from San Francisco/Shenzhen based Caputer Labs Inc, launched their Kickstarter campaign in late January, and have already reached beyond $75,000 of their $100,000 funding goal. The device, which takes advantage of the user's smartphone,...
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I Went Mountain Biking*

Not like taking a few jumps on a raked path in the woods behind my house like I used to do as a kid—I mean really mountain biking, the kind of thing you'd see on a GoPro commercial. The kind...

Disney Imagineer to Share VR Learnings from past 20 Years at GDC 2015

  Bei Yang, the 'Creative Technologies' leader at Walt Disney Imagineering, will be holding a talk on March 5th at this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) and revealing VR strategies learned by the R&D arm of Disney over the past 20...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 93): What is OSVR? with Razer’s Chris Mitchell & Sensic’s Yuval Boger

I am a big fan of open source stuff, so when I heard that Razer and Sensics have decided to team up to bring an open source virtual reality platform to the VR space, I knew I had to...

John Carmack to Detail ‘The Dawn of Mobile VR’ at GDC 2015

John Carmack, legendary developer and CTO of Oculus, will be taking to the stage at GDC 2015 to get technical in a presentation titled 'The Dawn of Mobile VR'. Carmack, who is known for presentations of detail and length,...

Sony to Discuss “Unique social experiences possible only with Project Morpheus” and More at GDC

Sony is bringing back Project Morpheus to this year's Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, now with updated information on the VR headset that promises to expound new applications for the VR side of their PlayStation ecosystem. See Also: Sony Morpheus...

13 More Partners Join OSVR, New Academia Program to Give 10 VR Headsets to Each Eligible University

After the announcement of the Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) initiative last month during CES, it seems that the idea might be catching on. Today OSVR is announcing the addition of 13 new partners, like Jaunt and VisiSonics, and the organization is...

5 Memorable Oculus Rift Prototype Games from the 2015 Global Game Jam

Recognized as the largest game developers jam in the world, Global Game Jam (GGJ) attracted more than 28,000 developers, scattered across 78 countries this year. With over 5,400 games produced, more than 60 were designed especially for use with the Oculus Rift Dk2....

VRLA Announces Spring Expo Event, Save 50% on Early-bird Tickets

VRLA, a virtual reality community organization based in Los Angeles, is firing up a series of quarterly expo events designed to showcase virtual reality and the community creating it. The first expo event will be held at the end...

Come One, Come All: ‘Convrge’ Hosting Another VR Dance Party Saturday, February 7th at 5PM EST

Convrge, a social virtual reality environment for the Oculus Rift DK2, is once again opening its doors for some virtual 'dancing' (as much dancing as you can do with headtracking alone). The developers are hoping to draw some 100...