SDC 2014: VR Design: Transitioning from 2D to 3D Design Paradigm, Liveblog @1pm PDT

"The commercialization of virtual reality provides an exciting space for designing user experiences and interfaces. However, this mostly unexplored technology holds a different set of opportunities and challenges for traditional two-dimensional designers. In this session, we will demonstrate the...

SDC 2014: Samsung Announces ‘Project Beyond’ A 3D 360 Camera for VR – Breaking

SDC 2014 has just kicked off and at the opening keynote, Samsung have just announced  that, alongside their new Note 4 based VR Headset, they've also got a 360 Stereoscopic 3D camera, designed and built to capture video for...

SDC 2014: Samsung Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ to Launch in U.S. Early December—Breaking

Today at Samsung Developer Conference 2014, the company has announced that their mobile VR headset, Gear VR, will launch in early December, just in time for the holiday season. Price and exact date yet to be specified. There's not much...

John Carmack Wants Minecraft on Samsung’s Gear VR

John Carmack, famed developer and Oculus CTO, is known for being open and frank. Having prodded Minecraft developer Mojang on the topic in the past, now that the company has changed hands following its sale to Microsoft, Carmack has once...

Proto Award Winning ‘Synthesis Universe’ Teases Breathtaking Visuals – Hands-On

Synthesis Universe is a rare thing, a virtual reality game which has been in development for over 3 years. Paul James goes hands-on with the neon infused, futuristic teaser experience for the Oculus Rift DK2 and comes away wanting...

BBC ‘War of Words’ Google Cardboard App Commemorates WW1 Poetry

The BBC has today released a Google Cardboard VR app which commemorates soldiers that fell in the 1st World War by celebrating one of the most famous poems from that era. Poignant Reminder Today is Armistice day, commemorating the agreement that was reached...

Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift

Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...

News Bits: RiftMax Kickstarter Cancelled, Dev Asks Backers to Donate Instead

RiftMax has been on the cutting edge of virtual reality telepresence and broadcasting for some time now so it made sense that the developers behind the project would attempt a crowd-funding campaign. Unfortunately, that Kickstarter has now been cancelled. If...

News Bits: Oculus 4.3.1b SDK Update for Unity Apparently Fixes Judder and Unity 5 Support

As we've written before, Unity was been the platform of choice for most VR development from the very beginning of Oculus VR's release of the original development kit (DK1). Which subsequently means there is a lot of Unity based games...