ARM Named Networking Sponsor at VRTGO 2015 on November 12th
VRTGO 2015 is almost here! A leading UK virtual reality conference, the event is to be held at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Arts in Gateshead on November 12th and the event's organisers have just announced the latest sponsor,...
dSky’s Celestrion Lets You Tinker With Your Own Virtual Solar System
Developers dSky have just launched a public beta of their Oculus Rift DK2 compatible virtual reality Orrery, Celestrion.
It's an extremely polished looking application the allows you to play with a "...working heliocentric 3d model of our solar system." and...
Design Your Dream Kitchen with the HTC Vive (video)
A result of the AEC Hackathon, Helsinki - this neat prototype application lets you don the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, pick up the SteamVR controllers and sculpt your own designer kitchen. A simple but neat user interface lets...
Consumer Gear VR May be up for Pre-Order November 10th
Samsung's mobile phone (and Oculus) powered Gear VR vr headset us to become available for pre-order in its first consumer form on November 10th according to a user who attended a recent Best Buy tech demo. The new $99,...
WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – November #1
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.
CastleCoaster is a clone of the legendary RiftCoaster roller coaster. CastleCoaster is...
Virtual Tours of Real Estate Units with uForis VR
Dora Cheng is one of the co-founders of uForis VR, which is a VR company that is focused on creating pragmatic applications of virtual reality. One of their first big VR projects was to create virtual tours for the...
A Look at Crowdfunding’s Role in the Virtual Reality Renaissance
Guest writer Sebastian Bos takes a historical look at virtual reality's affinity and maturity has been symbiotic with the growth in popularity of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter. Although, as Sebastian explores, it hasn't always been plain sailing.
Sebastian Bos is...
Review: ‘Dead Secret’ is one of the Early Great Successes in VR Thrillers
Relying on jumpscares in VR to make a game frightening is fundamentally lazy. There's no finesse, no building terror that creeps inside you, just the looming possibility that a ghoul can flash in front of your face, thereby activating whatever...
SEA VR Returns as the Largest VR Event in the US Northwest
Michael Glombicki shares his thoughts on the recent SEA-VR virtual reality community event, held in Seattle last month, and ponders the future of the community scene as VR becomes a mainstream technology.
Michael Glombicki is Seattle based software engineer who...
Oculus Connect 2 Developer Session Videos Now Online
Outside of the more visible publicity surrounding announcements at Oculus Connect 2 in September, the event is of course primarily a developer focused event, designed to bring creators up to speed with the latest in virtual reality techniques and technology....
