Case Study: ‘Inspirit’ Creator Breaks Down Responsive Web VR Design

VR on the web is still young but it's making impressive progress thanks to pioneers like Arturo Paracuellos, creator of Inspirit, a responsive web VR experience. Paracuellos breaks down his approach to designing a scene that runs across multiple VR platforms directly...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 103) – More on ‘Education in VR’ with Rob Swatton and Dave...

Sometimes we touch on a subject lightly in one podcast, only to expand on it in great length in a future episode. This is one of those cases. Previous guests, Rob and Dave for Earth & Sky, come back...

‘Wearality Sky’ Passes $100,000 Kickstarter Goal, Meetups in San Francisco and New York

With only 4 days left until the official end of its crowdfunding campaign, Wearality Sky has passed its funding goal of $100,000. The company will be offering trials of their 150 degree field of view (FOV) lenses in San Francisco...
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First ‘Perception Neuron’ Unboxing Video Appears, Shows Promising Accuracy

Perception Neuron, a VR motion input suit by Beijing-based Noitom Technology, took to Kickstarter on August 8th and came to a very successful conclusion, reeling in nearly $572,000, more than twice the campaign’s $250,000 goal. Now, the first an...

Steam VR Image Leak May Indicate Software Line-up for HTC Vive VR Headset

Steam VR and Valve's accompanying VR hardware, the HTC Vive, is on its way and with release windows already confirmed, the question is what content will be available for early adopters of the virtual reality platform? These images, found...

VR Video Platform ‘EEVO’ Gets $1M in Funding – Revenue Share and Startup Money for Content...

EEVO, a New York based cinematic VR video platform, is preparing to launch into the world of made-for-VR video with its Netflix-style service. Their hopes: to establish a paid (and therefore instantly monetized) service to immediately attract the most compelling premium content from big...

HTC Vive-enabled Unreal Engine 4.8 Coming next Week, Devs Can Start Work with Rift DK2

Epic Games has today announced that the company will be releasing an Unreal Engine 4.8 preview build next week which will offer support for Valve's highly anticipated SteamVR / HTC Vive. Epic says that even developers who don't have...

Unity Announces Support for Microsoft HoloLens, Complete Toolset Free of Charge

Unity has officially joined Microsoft in its quest to render the world around us with fantastical interactive 3D imagery, an endeavor made possible by HoloLens, Microsoft's as yet unreleased augmented reality visor. The game engine will fully support HoloLens and just like the...
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New HoloLens Video Shows Glimpses of Detailed Internals and Early Prototypes

HoloLens, Microsoft's forthcoming AR headset, was today revisited at the company's 'Build 2015' developer conference. Along with a number of tantalizingly smooth on-stage demos, the company also released a video showing some early prototypes, as well as an exploded model of...

Microsoft Shows New HoloLens Demos at Build 2015, “Hundreds of HoloLens” for Conference Goers to Try

Microsoft's biggest event of the year, Build 2015, started today and amidst all of the Windows 10 reveals, the company also revisited HoloLens, the augmented reality visor introduced by Microsoft earlier this year. Although we're not any closer to knowing exactly when...