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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...

VR Launchpad Deadline Extended to Wednesday – Apply Now for Your Chance to Pitch in the...

VR Launchpad, presented by SVVR and Road to VR, is the startup showcase for virtual reality companies. Applications for startups and entrepreneurs have been extended to October 7th. Apply today for an invitation to pitch before a crowd of investors...

Sony to Give ‘PlayStation VR’ Keynote at UK’s VRTGO Conference, November 12th

It's perhaps easy to forget that Project Morpheus, now known as PlayStation VR, would be 'just another VR headset' were it not for the vision and talent of Sony's UK game developers and designers. It's appropriate then that they're now...
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‘DeathTolls’ VR Experience Creates Chilling Visualizations of Human Loss from Disasters Worldwide

DeathTolls VR experience is a chilling visualization of the enormity of human loss created through various violent conflicts and disasters throughout the world, and aims to help quantify this loss by presenting the user with a field of the deceased. Death caused by...
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‘GTFO’ Gameplay Reveals VR Fun with Physics and the HTC Vive

I'm a big fan of games which just allow you to enjoy the mechanics of a game space. Give me a virtual room, objects and some well implemented physics and I'll get lost in my own sandboxed world, as...

Former Oculus Engineering VP Teases ‘Reverse Lighthouse’ Tracking System That Can Fit in a Smartphone

Jack McCauley worked as VP of Engineering at Oculus, joining the company in the early days back in 2012. No longer with the company but continuing on with various engineering projects, McCauley is teasing some Lighthouse-like tracking technology that he...
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WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – October #1

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. Follow the story of Null as he embarks on an epic adventure;...

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida on Gran Turismo 7 “I’d like to see it support PlayStation VR”

In an interview with Eurogamer, President of Sony's Worldwide Studios, has gone on record stating that he'd like to see Gran Turismo 7 on the company's Playstation VR platform one it's released. According to Yoshida, Sony's extensive internal testing have found,...

VR Launchpad Tickets Now on Sale – See Pitches from Top VR Startups, Vetted by Industry...

VR Launchpad is the startup showcase for virtual reality companies. Tickets for the event are now on sale. Secure your seat for access to a select group of VR startups vetted by VR community and media leaders, SVVR and Road...

VR Launchpad Applications Now Open – Pitch in the Heart of Silicon Valley

VR Launchpad, presented by SVVR and Road to VR, is the startup showcase for virtual reality companies. Applications for startups and entrepreneurs are now available. Apply today for an invitation to pitch before a crowd of press and investors. VR Launchpad...

First Look: The ‘Elite: Dangerous’ Experience on HTC Vive is the Best Yet

EGX 2015 was seemingly over flowing with virtual reality headsets this year and interestingly, with the exception of a handful of Playstation VR demo stations, the Valve's flagship VR Headset the HTC Vive dominated. A nice surprise too, Elite:...
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