VR Development
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...
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...
‘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...
‘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...
How NASA is Using VR to Explore the Universe
Dr. Jeff Norris works on Mission Operations Innovation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ops Lab. They've been partnering with all of the major virtual reality & augmented reality companies to accelerate the progress in space exploration, designing spacecraft, and...
Consumer Oculus Rift to Arrive with 4-Month Free Trial of Unity Pro
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey revealed today at Vision Summit 2016 that the company would be giving away 4 months of Unity Professional Edition for free with the purchase of an Oculus Rift.
The move comes as a bid to entice consumers...
Unity is Making Big Improvements to Their VR Rendering Pipeline
Unity is making a huge push to position itself as the leading game engine in the virtual reality space today at its Vision Summit where they made a series of new partner announcements and previewed big improvements coming to...
First Look: Unreal Engine Will Soon Let You Build VR inside VR
Epic Games has unveiled a new feature of its VR-native development platform Unreal Engine 4, the ability for VR developers to build their applications and games from within virtual reality. Here's what it looks like.
The VR renaissance has inspired...



















