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Aashna Mago on Getting More Women into VR

Aashna Mago talks about the first Women in VR event in San Francisco that she helped organize on September 20th, 2015. There were over 200 people who attended the event that featured 13 women luminaries who are working in virtual reality,...

Building A Better Mousetrap: A “Landmark” Dream Of The Ultimate Content Platform

Noah Nelson is back with another instalment of Immersion Point and this week digs into Landmark Entertainment's recent unveiling of their new 'Pavilion of Me' project, an immersive content platform designed to be the first step on the road...

Greenlight VR to Give ‘State of the VR Industry’ Presentation at VR Launchpad

Virtual reality market research firm Greenlight VR will share their latest data-driven insights into the consumer VR industry in a special presentation at VR Launchpad on October 20th. Howie Leibach, Sr. Research Analyst at Greenlight VR, will take to the...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #3

Looking for something fun to play in VR? We’ve got the top 10 downloads from the last week on the WEARVR app marketplace, a cross-platform repository of virtual reality experiences. A plague is consuming humankind. Civilization faces extinction. As a time-travelling scientist,...
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POLLEN Steam Greenlit in Record Time, Gets New Gameplay Trailer

Mindfield Games' immersive and eerie first person adventure POLLEN has been Steam 'greenlit' in just 36 hours described as "record breaking" time by the studio. So, to celebrate, they've launched a brand new gameplay trailer. We've been tracking the progress...

‘Voxelus’ Aims to Let Everyone to Build Their Own VR Content

With the huge success of Minecraft, a generation of gamers have grown up expecting to build and create in, as well as 'merely' play their games. Voxelus aims to tap into that creative spark with it's new Voxelus Creator...

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...
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Overlaid Videos Show Just how Accurate Oculus Touch Controls Are

Oculus Touch tech demonstration 'Toybox' made its public video debut a couple of days ago and highlighted the sheer fun that can be had in VR with intuitive motion controllers. The videos used a side-by-side in-game and real-world POV...

VorpX 0.9 is Out October 23rd, Brings Async Timewarp, Video Player Mode and Much More

VorpX is an application that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality and is about to release its most "feature packed update ever". The new release will drop on October 23rd and brings with it a host...

Candid Reactions to the Oculus Toybox Demo and Social Presence

The Oculus Touch Toybox demo was shown to the most number of people in one day at Oculus Connect 2 on September 23rd. This was the first time that a lot of developers were able to get their hands...

New Cinematic VR and Creation Tools Being Prototyped in Unity

Timoni West is a principle designer for Unity Labs, and she's working on creating professional tools for creating VR scenes in Unity while being in VR. These tools are still in the prototype phase of development, but it's something...
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HTC Vive ‘City Destruction’ VR Prototype Lets You Demolish Virtual Worlds

In all the talk over presence and immersion associated with virtual reality games, we mustn't lose sight of why we play games in the first place, for fun! When games come along that manage to fuse both, we get...

Preview: ‘Machine VR’ is an Awe-inspiring Trip Through a Crystalline Fractal Universe

Produced by Dutch visual effects artist Julius Horsthuis, Machine VR is the newest installment of a line of contemplative fractal 360 videos—this time taking you into an infinite world of crenelated metallic structures that is sure to ignite the imagination. The human mind...

Jesse Schell on the VR Design Principles of ‘I Expect You to Die’

Jesse Schell has been involved in virtual reality for over 20 years, and he's also the author of the popular The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. He was able to combine his background in VR and...

GameStop Bringing Valve’s Steam Hardware to Stores

Hot on the heels of US game retail giant GameStop's CEO Paul Raines announcing that "We’re going to be the destination for VR", come news that the company has also cut a deal with Valve to stock the forthcoming wave...
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