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5 Insights for New VR Developers from DreamWorks Animation Head of Technology Product Development

At Samsung's 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, took to the stage during the second day keynote to talk VR. Mayoss shared some of the initial work that DreamWorks has...

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...

Evangelizing VR Within an Indie Game Studio

Kayla Kinnunen is a game director at Roadhouse Interactive, which is an independent game development studio based out of Vancouver, BC. She talks about her process of evangelizing VR at her studio and slowly ramping up a VR team....

Leap Motion’s ‘Planetarium’ Gives you the Power to Grab Constellations

In a new technical demo from Leap Motion's labs, you can use your hands to soar through space and manipulate entire constellations with mere gestures. The Planetarium aims to illustrate ideas in virtual reality user interfaces and demonstrate the...

AxonVR is Building a Generalized Haptic Display

AxonVR was awarded US Patent No. 9,652,037 of a "whole-body human-computer interface" on May 16th, which includes an external exoskeleton as well as a generalized haptic display made out of microfluidic technology. I had a chance to demo AxonVR's...

Playtesting VR Experiences with Fish Bowl VR

Geoff Skow is a co-founder of Fish Bowl VR, which has over 200 early adopter, VR enthusiasts available to do user testing for VR experiences. VR developers can get a monthly subscription to get on-demand, user testing with let's...

Oculus Launches Improved Developer Hub, Updated Documentation

Oculus’ new developer hub website is up and running, featuring better navigation, documentation and search capabilities. The improvements address many of the requests and feedback received from the recent global developer survey, and follows an initiative to increase overall...

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...

Epic Games Offering up Cash from $5 Million Fund to ‘Anyone Making Cool Things with UE4’

Epic Games is offering developers a "no strings attached" piece of their recently established development fund, a financial grant pool that tops out at $5,000,000 worth of cash. The funds are earmarked for projects with working prototypes, that are...

AltspaceVR Launches New SDK to Promote Social VR Application Development

AltspaceVR have had a hell of a week. As part of their ongoing 'Social Week' the company have made some big announcements, Gear VR support and cross platform capabilities with the addition of HTC Vive support. Now, the company...

Unity Awards 2015 VR Finalists Announced, Vote for Your Favourite

Unity, the leading 3D game engine synonymous with the early days of Oculus Rift software, is due to hold its annual conference 'Unite' in Boston on September 22nd. As part of the event, the company will honour the best...

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...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 98): Catching up with Ikrima Elhassan from Kite & Lightning

It has been a while since the guys from Kite & Lightning have been on the show, but that doesn't mean they haven't been pumping out some amazing things since we last spoke. Ikrima takes some time out of...

AltspaceVR Holding Open Beta This Weekend For Virtual Superbowl Party

AltspaceVR is hosting another open beta weekend, and they want you to bring the chips and dip this time for a shared viewing of Super Bowl XLIX. Whether you're rooting for the Patriots or the Seahawks, you're sure to...

Rev VR Podcast (Ep. 92): Interview with Sky Nite, Author of ‘Virtual Reality Insider’

We've all seen those 'books' about VR that seem to be nothing more than a quick cash grab, taking advantage of a burgeoning industry and hoping to dupe a few suckers into spending a few dollars. I am here...
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