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Fabric Engine is Working to Enable 3D Storyboarding and Editing Directly in VR
Fabric Engine is an authoring tool-set for easing the visualisation and building of content in virtual spaces. The team behind the project have built what they claim is a suite of software which helps quickly iterate on designs for...
Instant VR for Your Next Party with ‘WeLens’
One of the most expensive and time-consuming parts of demoing at a VR event is outfitting enough demo stations. Too few and you'll have a long line of unhappy people, but at $700+ for a GearVR/Galaxy S6 combo, it's...
UK’s ‘SouthWest VR’ Becomes ‘VR World Congress’, Talk Submissions Now Open
The appetite for virtual reality industry gatherings seem to be insatiable at the moment. UK based SouthWest VR just announced that it's last sell-out event was so successful, they're re-branding it with a view to expand its global appeal....
NextVR Raises $30.5M to Accelerate Broadcast VR Development
NextVR, the company known for live-broadcasting immersive video such as last month's Gear VR-accessible Democratic debate, announced recently a $30.5 million Series A funding round with investments by some big names in traditional media.
VR is changing the consumption of...
CCP Games Secure $30M To Expand VR Development
CCP Games, the company behind the hugely successful 'EVE' franchise and early VR adopters with VR space combat shooter EVE:Valkyrie, have announced they're to expand their efforts in VR development with the help of $30M in funding.
CCP Games are...
This Leap Motion Shooter is Inspired by Dreamcast Classic ‘Rez’
Motion sensing peripheral specialists Leap Motion's second development event '3D Jam' has had over 180 submissions for projects that fuse the Leap's input capabilities with virtual reality. This entry 'VRez', inspired by classic Dreamcast shooter Rez, caught our eye as a...
Play Fallout 4 in VR, with the Latest VorpX Update
VorpX, the drivers that lets you play your favourite games in virtual reality on the Oculus Rift, has just received an update that brings with it official preliminary support for the newly released Fallout 4.
Hot on the heels of...
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...
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...
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...



















