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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #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. VRBloX is a virtual reality puzzle game where the object is to...

VR Launchpad Startup Showcase Comes to Silicon Valley in October – Presented by SVVR & Road...

Join top VR innovators, investors, and thought-leaders for a day of focused pitching, networking, and demos. Held in the heart of Silicon Valley, VR Launchpad is the focal point for innovative VR startups and products, curated by leaders in the...

Where to Try Vive, Rift, and Morpheus and What’s Playing at PAX 2015 This Weekend

The annual PAX Prime gaming festival starts today in Seattle and VR will be one of the highlights of the show for many gamers. The major players are out in force, and we've got a quick guide to where you...

MTV and IM360 will Put You on the Red Carpet at the Video Music Awards

IM360 has partnered with MTV to offer you an envious position at this Sunday's Video Music Awards, with a live 360 degree immersive broadcast direct from the prestigious event's red carpet. MTV's Video Music Awards is an event with the highest...
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‘Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation’ VR Experience Coming to Immersed Europe

Attendees of Immersed Europe could get their chance to step into the shoes of Tom Cruise on his action packed ride off the side of Airbus A400M Atlas in the new Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (2015). The experience was created by InMediaStudio in partnership...

Oculus SDK v0.7 Beta is Released With ‘Preliminary’ Windows 10 Support, Multiple Enhancements

The latest v0.7 release of Oculus' Software Development Kit and Runtime Driver is now here, bringing with it multiple enhancements alongside preliminary Windows 10 support. As we detailed a couple of weeks ago, Oculus' latest and much anticipated SDK release is...
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Ubisoft and MM Company to Bring ‘Trackmania’ Full-Motion VR Chair to Paris Games Week

Ubisoft has announced a partnership with MM Company, a Ukraine based start-up that has developed a chair specifically for use with VR headsets. The chair, called the MMOne, works along three axis and is able to rotate 45 degrees left and right, raise 45 degrees and revolve 360 degrees. MM...

‘Discovery’ Goes Virtual with New 360 Video VR Apps

Discovery Communications, known for its cadre of cable television channels and outdoors-focused programming, has released a VR video app for iOS and Android devices and Samsung Gear via Milk VR. The app’s website also emphasizes that it is “Coming...

Redirected Walking Techniques for Virtual Reality

Evan Suma is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Institute of Creative Technologies. He was at IEEE VR presenting a poster on "Towards Context-Sensitive Reorientation for Real Walking in Virtual Reality" led by his USC ICT...

VRTGO Organisers to Whet UK VR Appetites with Free Demo Day, Sept 10th

One of the UK's leading virtual reality conferences, VRTGO, is on its way to Gateshead, UK on November 12th. But if you can't wait until then to sate your VR hunger, the organisers are holding a VR demo day on...