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Unity’s VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God

At a special event at GDC this morning, Unity's Principal Designer Timoni West showed off the latest prototype of Unity's new Virtual Reality editor that lets you build VR applications and games as if you were a god. The two biggest...

GDC 2016: Sony PlayStation VR: Development and Innovations – Live Blog @ 11AM PST

With the launch of the PlayStation VR now announced to be arriving in October this year, the focus on content creation for the first console powered VR system will intensify. This session, presented by Sony, Join us as we enter...

AMD Launches ‘Radeon Pro Duo’ Dual GPU Card, Targets VR Content Creators

AMD has unveiled what it's calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it's targeting the product at virtual reality content creators. Running consumer virtual reality applications and games is already challenging enough in...

Oculus Sample Framework Provides Valuable Guidance in VR Design

Oculus has recently released an intuitive learning tool for developers and designers looking to get into the medium. While it can be useful in wrapping your head around the do's and don'ts of VR design, Oculus maintains that the info...

Bringing VR Content Creation to the Masses with Unity’s ‘Carte Blanche’

Dioselin Gonzalez is a senior VR engineer at Unity Labs who is working on bringing VR creation tools to the masses. Project "Carte Blanche" will be launching sometime in 2017 and will be targeting desktop VR consumers with an...

The Future of Unity Content Creation Tools & Smart Assets

Sylvio Drouin is the Executive Vice President of Unity Labs, which for the past year has been doing advanced research into VR authoring tools both for developers and consumers as well as graphic research. I caught up with Sylvio...
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Valve Releases First SteamVR Developer Roundtable Discussion Video

Filmed as part of the recent SteamVR developer showcase in Seattle, Valve have released the first in what appears to be a series of discussions with developers working on titles for the SteamVR platform and the HTC Vive. Headed by...
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‘Playthings’ is a Wonderful World of Hamburger Drums and Hot Dog Xylophones

Before his death, acclaimed psychonaut and technologist Terrence McKenna once said that virtual reality "...is a technology that will allow us to show each other our dreams. We will be able to build structures in the imagination that we...

XEODesign’s Nicole Lazzaro on Design Leadership in VR

XEODesign's Nicole Lazarro has been researching emotional reactions of gamers in VR to discover the unique properties of the medium. You can't just port a 2D game into VR and expect it to work, and so she's calling for...

$30,000 in Cash and Prizes for Winner of Nvidia VR Showcase

NVIDIA's forthcoming GTC Conference runs April 4-7 and is going to be dominated by the topic of virtual reality – with a dedicated session track and VR Village with the latest and greatest demos. What's more, if you're an...

Jesse Schell on the Art of Game Design in VR

Jesse Schell wrote the book "The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses," and his company Schell Games produced I Expect You to Die. It's one of the top-ranked VR games on Oculus Share, and it also won...
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‘Neos Core’ Enables a World of Multi-User, Multi-device VR Collaboration

Tomáš 'Frooxius' Mariančík, the man behind the Sightline series has reached what he calls a "major milestone" with his continuing creation and education platform Neos. Today he unveiled a breakthrough framework which allows multiple users to gaze into and collaborate...

‘Thunderbird’ Father-Son Dev Team Win ‘Best VR Experience’ at Vision Summit

For the past year, Tony Davidson and his 17-year old son Kai have been tucked away in the hills of Oregon collaborating on a VR experience that was inspired from one of Kai's dreams. Thunderbird is a puzzle adventure...

Movidius’ Dedicated Vision Processing Chip is Coming Soon to AR and VR Headsets

Movidius may be a little known name to the average consumer, but the company behind Google Project Tango's Myriad 1 vision processing chip is gearing up to release their new chip architecture in both VR and AR headset manufacturers, and a...

Oculus Launch Avatar Lip Sync Plugin for Unity

Oculus have released a dedicated Unity plugin which aims to automatically detect and transform an audio stream from speech into virtual character lip movements automatically. It seems that the substantial investment in research and development at Oculus over the last...
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