XR Industry News
The latest news on the XR industry. Covering AR, VR, MR, spatial computing, and the most important companies and platforms in the field.
Psytec Games and Windlands Team Join Forces
Two up-and-coming VR development teams behind two extremely promising made-for-VR games have relvealed they are to team up. Psytec Games, makers of Crystal Rift, has announced that the duo behind Windlands, a first person VR grappling hook action title, are to...
Here We Go (Again): The VR Industry Is Spinning up Just like Online Video 10 Years...
Here we go again. A decade ago, it was online video that changed everything. Now virtual reality is set to change the world once more. As we approach the Q1 2016 Oculus Rift release date, you can literally see and...
4 Thoughts on Carmack’s ‘VrScript’ from Tony Parisi, Creator of VRML
Oculus CTO John Carmack has been working on a VR scripting environment called—simply enough—VrScript. After getting a glimpse of the environment at Oculus Connect, Tony Parisi had some thoughts to share.
Guest article by Sophia Dominguez
Sophia is the founder of AllThingsVR, a curated newsletter...
Fabric Engine is Working to Enable 3D Storyboarding and Editing Directly in VR
Fabric Engine is an authoring tool-set for easing the visualisation and building of content in virtual spaces. The team behind the project have built what they claim is a suite of software which helps quickly iterate on designs for...
Instant VR for Your Next Party with ‘WeLens’
One of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of demoing at a VR event is outfitting enough demo stations. Too few and you'll have a long line of unhappy people, but at $700+ for a GearVR/Galaxy S6 combo, it's...
UK’s ‘SouthWest VR’ Becomes ‘VR World Congress’, Talk Submissions Now Open
The appetite for virtual reality industry gatherings seem to be insatiable at the moment. UK based SouthWest VR just announced that it's last sell-out event was so successful, they're re-branding it with a view to expand its global appeal....
NextVR Raises $30.5M to Accelerate Broadcast VR Development
NextVR, the company known for live-broadcasting immersive video such as last month's Gear VR-accessible Democratic debate, announced recently a $30.5 million Series A funding round with investments by some big names in traditional media.
VR is changing the consumption of...
Unreal Engine to Add NVIDIA Gameworks VR Support, Including VR SLI
Today at the VRX conference in San Francisco, Epic Games, developers of Unreal Engine, announced that they're partnering with NVIDIA to integrate their Gameworks VR featureset into UE4. VR SLI and Multi-res shading will be availabl in forthcoming updates.
NVIDIA's...
Tony Parisi on Alternatives to Walled Garden Platforms with the Open Web & WEVR
Tony Parisi has been working towards creating an open ecosystem of virtual reality helping to co-create the Virtual Reality Modelling Language in the early 90s. He recently took a position at WEVR, and while he's not revealing too much...
Virtual Tours of Real Estate Units with uForis VR
Dora Cheng is one of the co-founders of uForis VR, which is a VR company that is focused on creating pragmatic applications of virtual reality. One of their first big VR projects was to create virtual tours for the...
Oculus Connect 2 Developer Session Videos Now Online
Outside of the more visible publicity surrounding announcements at Oculus Connect 2 in September, the event is of course primarily a developer focused event, designed to bring creators up to speed with the latest in virtual reality techniques and technology....
K&L’s Ikrima Elhassan on Developing a Comedy Tabletop Game Bebylon
I talk with Ikrima Elhassan of Kite & Lightning about their new tabletop VR game called Bebylon Battle Royale, which is a "Vehicular Melee Party Brawler." Kite & Lightning has a made a name of creating high-end cinematic VR...
‘Sightline: The Chair’ Scoops Top Award at Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival
Developer Tomáš Mariančík (aka Frooxius), developer of the excellent virtual reality experience Sightline: The Chair has been awarded the first ever Jury Prize at the Kaleidoscope VR Film festival in association with VRIDEO.
A firm favourite of Road to VR's, Sightline:...
Innovate UK Awards £210k to VR and AR Pioneers
There are a number of initiatives out there trying to encourage development into the huge potential represented by virtual and augmented reality's current renaissance. None we've seen are quite as wide in remit though as Innovate UK's national UK...
4th Part of Epic’s ‘Sense of Presence’ VR Doc Focuses on the ‘Future of VR’
Epic, the company behind the popular Unreal Engine, has released the fourth part of it's series of films looking at virtual reality technology and the industry. It's been an interestingly positive journey thus far and this latest instalment focuses...



















