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Sólfar Secures $2.1M to Recreate Everest in VR and Get You to Climb it

Icelandic developer Sólfar Studios have announced that their quest to bring one of the world's greatest natural wonders, Mount Everest, to virtual reality just got a significant boost. They've announced received over $2M in seed funding to bring their mountaineering...

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...
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dSky’s Celestrion Lets You Tinker With Your Own Virtual Solar System

Developers dSky have just launched a public beta of their Oculus Rift DK2 compatible virtual reality Orrery, Celestrion. It's an extremely polished looking application the allows you to play with a "...working heliocentric 3d model of our solar system." and...
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Design Your Dream Kitchen with the HTC Vive (video)

A result of the AEC Hackathon, Helsinki - this neat prototype application lets you don the HTC Vive virtual reality headset, pick up the SteamVR controllers and sculpt your own designer kitchen. A simple but neat user interface lets...

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....

Technolust’s ‘Cloudstep’ VR Locomotion and Overcoming the Uncanny Valley by Coding Social Behaviors

Blair Renaud is the creator of Technolust, and he talks about his strategy for creating different experiences out of the Technolust universe for the Vive, Playstation VR, Oculus Rift, and Gear VR. Technolust has been one of the early...
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New Trailer Announces PlayStation VR Horror ‘White Day’

Koreans like their horror it seems, which means that the release of this new teaser trailer for ROI Games developed title White Day will likely be welcome indeed. The title has is about to launch on IOS and PC in Korea...
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Smart Vive Game Pits Tennis Players Against Themselves

SelfieTennis adds a simple VR twist to the more than 150 year old sport which allows players to practice in a way they could never do in the real world. Virtual reality is arguably at its best when it takes the...

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...

Kite & Lightning’s New VR Game Takes the Studio in a Radically Different Direction

Kite & Lightning is an LA-based creative studio that's released some of the most polished VR experiences we've seen throughout the development of the Oculus Rift. Now the studio is taking it's first step away from 'experience' and into...

Hands-On with the ‘Paranormal Activity’ VR Demo on the HTC Vive

Frank He shares his experiences of VRWERX's made-for-VR experience, a sneak peek at what you can expect in a full release coming to virtual reality headsets some time next year. The Paranormal Activity VR demo is an HTC Vive experience that...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #5

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. We love racing games and we hope you do too. Here's a...

Media Molecule Confirms ‘Dreams’ is Coming to PlayStation VR

After a full week of surprises and sustained PlayStation VR announcements during Paris Games Week, seems we're not done yet. Media Molecule, the studio behind Little Big Planet, have confirmed that their forthcoming game 'Dreams' is to receive PlayStation...
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