VR Toolbox for Experimental Psychology, Change Blindness research, & the ethics of replicating controversial psychological experiments...
Madis Vasser is a psychology student at University of Tartu Virtual Neuroscience Lab, and he collaborated with the computer science department to create a VR toolbox for doing experimental psychology research. He was showing off a demo of a...
Project Morpheus Offically Named as ‘Playstation VR’ — Breaking
At a press conference at the Tokyo Games Show in Japan, Sony just announced that it's virtual reality device for the Playstation 4 will be officially called 'Playstation VR'
The Tokyo Games Show - running this week, is a traditional...
‘Ghost in the Shell’ to Receive ‘Virtual Reality Diver’ 360 Spin-off, Debuting at TGS
In a recent Facebook post, Production I.G the animation house behind many anime movies, have announced a 360 3D Ghost in the Shell spin off named Virtual Reality Diver, and it'll make it's first appearance at this week's Tokyo...
AltspaceVR Goes Cross Platform with Gear VR Support, Closed Alpha Sign-Up is Live
AltspaceVR today announced a Samsung Gear VR version of the social VR platform, which will hypothetically allow anyone with the mobile VR headset and an internet connection to talk online face to face.
A dozen journalists from across two continents and...
6 Game Industry Artists Let Loose in HTC Vive ‘Tilt Brush’ Competition
NVIDIA's booth at PAX Prime 2015 recently saw a special competition that put six game industry artists to task, where they created wild and wonderful sculptures—not with complicated CAD software though, but rather with the help of Tilt Brush, a VR creation tool coming...
First Look: Vive Chief Content Officer Phil Chen on VR’s Role in the Evolution of Storytelling
Virtual reality pushes the capabilities of computers like no other current technology; putting a 3D world in front of you and making it interactive requires a lot of power. But the payoff? A new medium that directly engages with...
Flickr Experimenting with VR Functionality, View Your 360 Photos Immersively
Photo storage and sharing giant Flickr is taking a step into the virtual soon if early plans for VR integration on their service reach fruition. According to Engadget, the site plans to introduce a VR button, which allows the...
First Emmy for a VR Project Goes to Sleepy Hollow on the Oculus Rift
Here's a positive sign of the VR industry's encroachment on the entertainment industry proper, a recognised, industry award given to a virtual reality project. In this case, the Sleepy Hollow Virtual Reality Experience for the Oculus Rift DK2
The Emmy's...
MiddleVR Middleware + Differences Between Consumer VR and Academic VR
Sébastien Kuntz is the founder of MiddleVR, which is a middleware solution that allows you to connect to a wide range of consumer and industrial VR peripheral devices. He talks about some of the other VR locomotion and 3DUI...
This HTC Vive PAX Reactions Video is Pure, Honest Hype
The HTC team are in marketing overdrive mode right now, with an estimated arrival date for their (and Valve's) first VR headset slated for the end of the year (albeit in limited numbers), the team's whistle stop 'world' tour...
