‘Garry’s Mod’ Sequel to Receive Virtual Reality Support

Rust developer Facepunch Studios, founded by developer Garry Newman, has confirmed that its founding game Garry's Mod will receive virtual reality support - just don't call it 'Garry's Mod 2'. In an interview with PCGamesN, the founder of Facepunch studios...

Stereoscopic Visualization Techniques for Embedded System Graphs

There are some open questions within the data visualization community as to what benefits the third dimension might add to visualizing information that doesn't have an inherent spatial component. Ragaad Al Tarawneh was at the 3DUI conference presenting a...

VRDC 2016: Call for Submissions Now Open for GDC’s Dedicated VR Conference

The world's largest gathering of professional game developers, GDC, launches a dedicated virtual reality sister conference VRDC this year - and the call for submissions to the VR industry and community to present at the inaugural event is now open. The annual...
video

Project ‘impacto’ is Designed to Let People Really Feel Virtual Reality

The lab of Human Computer Interaction at Germany’s Hasso Plattner Institute has developed impacto, a wearable, wireless device designed “to render the haptic sensation of hitting and being hit in virtual reality.” Led by Professor Patrick Baudisch, the lab has...

Capturing Virtual Worlds: A Method for Taking 360 Virtual Photos and Videos

In this technical deep-dive, D 'eVRydayVR' Coetzee explores in detail the technical challenges preventing us from sharing our favourite VR experiences with others and the solutions available to overcome them. D is a VR software developer and founder of the...

Haption: Force-Feedback Haptic Devices for Industrial VR Applications

Quentin Parent is a sales engineer at Haption, and he talks about some of their force-feedback haptic devices that are used in different industry applications. These are haptic feedback systems are used to train astronauts, for nuclear training, as...

One-on-one Consulting with Epic, Unity, and Oculus Available to VR Devs at Connect

Oculus' forthcoming Connect 2 conference is a resolutely developer focused event and these events, offering 1:1 face-time with experts in both Unity and Unreal engines, specifically on the mechanics of building a VR project, may just be the ticket...

MATTER VR Signs with EEVO for Streaming VR Content Distribution

MatterVR, a VR content house founded by film industry vets, has announced a distribution deal with Eevo, a streaming platform for curated VR video. MatterVR may be relatively new to the VR scene, but they bring with them decades of...
video

GoPro Reveals First 360 Degree Video Shot with New Odyssey VR Camera

GoPro's 'Odyssey' VR camera camera is on its way with early access being given to selected directors soon. And, to whet the creative appetites of filmmakers everywhere, GoPro have released this beautiful time-lapse 360 degree film featuring the sights...
video

CLOUDS is an Immersive VR Documentary Combining CG Data Visualization & Depth-mapped Interviews

Clouds is a documentary of a different sort. Using real-time interactive data visualizations set as the backdrop to over 10 hours of interviews with artists, hackers, and designers—all captured as weird and wonderful point clouds—there's no way you'll walk...