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REWIND Spins BBC ‘Strictly’ into 360 Degree Video

REWIND, the UK based VR digital production company, were commissioned by the BBC to record one of the UK's biggest shows in immersive, VR friendly video, the first of its kind for a mainstream BBC show. Whilst the demographics of this...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #2

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. RollerBall 3d is an annoying Platform Game inspired by games like Geometry...
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‘CDF Starfighter Alpha’ Releases First Gameplay Footage

CDF Starfighter Alpha, a VR sci-fi dogfighter that successfully completed its Steam Greenlight campaign last month, has today released their first gameplay footage showing off some of the game's physics and weapons. CDF Starfighter Alpha, created by Blackpool, UK-based Mag Studios, is...

Preview: ‘Machine VR’ is an Awe-inspiring Trip Through a Crystalline Fractal Universe

Produced by Dutch visual effects artist Julius Horsthuis, Machine VR is the newest installment of a line of contemplative fractal 360 videos—this time taking you into an infinite world of crenelated metallic structures that is sure to ignite the imagination. The human mind...

‘Arch Virtual’ Says VR Could Transform the Entire Architecture Industry

Jon Brouchoud is an architect at Arch Virtual who has been putting architectural projects within Unity since before the Oculus Rift came out. He's been using virtual reality for architectural clients for over a year now, and says that...

John Carmack Now Working on Minecraft for Oculus Rift and Gear VR

One of the biggest moments at last month's Oculus Connect developer conference was the revelation that Minecraft, the stratospherically successful retro-styled social title, is coming to the Oculus Rift and Samsung's Gear VR. Now, Oculus CTO John Carmack has stated that...

SpaceVR Passes $100k Kickstarter Goal, VR is Going to Space

SpaceVR has now secured the funds to shoot a 360-degree camera into space, where it will hitch a ride along the observation deck of the International Space Station (ISS). With only days before the conclusion of the team's Kickstarter campaign,...

AMD’s ‘Liquid VR’ Initiative Wins AIS Lumiere Award

AMD launched its bid for technical supremacy in the VR rendering race back at GDC earlier in the year. It's called Liquid VR, and the folks over at the Advanced Imaging Society liked what the company's virtual reality team has...

AMD Partners With Dell on Oculus Ready ‘Alienware’ PC’s

At Oculus Connect 2 last month, amongst the myriad announcements, an important initiative by the virtual reality company was revealed, affordable 'Oculus Ready' PCs that meet the minimum, recommended requirements of virtual reality. Now, AMD have announced a strategic...

Facebook Founder Confirms Work on Augmented Reality

Faceboook's move to position itself at the forefront of immersive technologies with the acquisition of Oculus VR last year, may have implications beyond Virtual Reality. During a talk at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg...