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VR Astronaut Sim ‘Earthlight’ Gets New 360 Trailer and Screenshots

There are many out there who dream of going to space, but far fewer willing to take the risks involved to experience it for real. Earthlight is a multi-platform VR experience which aims to simulate the experience of an astronaut,...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 110): Talking with Cris Miranda at VR Launchpad 2015

I recently attended VR Launchpad 2015, a one day event where VR startups had a chance to pitch their ideas to investors and the community. The event was presented by SVVR and Road to VR and held at the...

Oculus Research Collaborator Talks Tracking Facial Expressions While Wearing a VR Headset

Hao Li is an assistant professor at USC who has been collaborating with Oculus Research on facial tracking while wearing a virtual reality headset. The group's initial prototype and research paper "Facial Performance Sensing Head-Mounted Display" was presented at SIGGRAPH 2015. Listen: http://d1icj85yqthyoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Voices-of-VR-234-Hao-Li1.mp3 Hao...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #4

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. Dreadhalls is a horror dungeon crawler that has you exploring the procedurally...

4 Steps to Start Experimenting with WebVR in 10 Minutes

WebVR is not a new thing — people have been talking about using WebGL to render interactive 3D graphics in the browser for over half a decade, in various different implementations. What is new, however, is the availability of open source libraries...

MPC and Sony Pictures Brings VFX Skills to ‘Goosebumps’ VR Experience

VFX specialists MPC have collaborated with Sony Pictures on building a virtual reality experience to promote the box office hit horror comedy film Goosebumps, as well as handling visual effects for the movie itself. MPC is a leading visual effects...

VorpX 0.9 is Now Released, Adds Async Timewarp, Witcher 3 and Star Wars Classics Support

As reported previously, the virtual reality injection driver that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality is now released. This update bring with it a host of technical enhancements, and a selection of newly supported games such...

Lucky’s Tale Developer Playful Gets $25M Investment

We've been tracking Playful since E3 2014, when the developer behind virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale blew away the pre-conception that VR was reserved only for first person games. Now, the developer is to receive $25M to accelerate the game's...

Mary Spio on VR Music Videos and Audio Haptics with Ceekars 4D Headphones

Mary Spio is the president and founder of Next Galaxy, and she's working on a number of different VR experiences including music videos, medical training, and enterprise applications. They're also developing the Ceekars 4D Headphones in order to increase...

HTC Vive May Launch Dec 8th in the UK, US and Germany, Interview Suggests

An interview with Polish site TVN24Bis.pl may have just revealed the release date for the HTC Vive in three territories, US, UK and Germany. In an interview with the site, HTC with Bartosz Zik, Product Commercialisation Manager at HTC, it's...