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E3 Press Conference Live Streams to Keep Your Eye on for VR

Hot on the tails of the Oculus Rift's unveiling at the company's 'Step into the Rift' event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) promises to see a number of press conferences featuring the top players that have expressed strong interest in VR...

Microsoft and Valve Announce VR for Windows 10 Relationship

E3 is underway here in LA and at Microsoft's press conference the software giant have announced that they're working closely with Valve on virtual reality for the Windows 10 platform. Just last week at Oculus' pre-E3 press event, Microsoft joined...

Rothenberg Ventures Doubles Down: Committing Another $1 Million to Funding AR/VR Startups

Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the 'River' VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural...

Valve’s Lighthouse Room-Scale Tracking Illustrated IRL

SFX house Stress Level Zero recently received their Valve Vive Developer Edition kit and have now published a useful image demonstrating just what Valve's 15x15 feet 'room scale' tracking looks like when applied in reality. Valve and HTC's Vive virtual...

Untold Games Bringing Loading Human to Sony Morpheus, Demoing at E3

Loading Human, a ambitious made-for-VR adventure game, in development for the Oculus Rift have announced it's on its way to Sony's Project Morpheus too. London based Untold Games' Loading Human is a game with high ideals when it comes to VR....

Oculus Earmarks $10 Million for Indie VR Devs in Biggest Content Investment Yet

Oculus announced at their pre-E3 'Step into the Rift' event that they would be committing more than $10 million to accelerate indie VR developers. The investment fund signifies the largest amount of money ever publicly earmarked by Oculus for third-party content...

Oculus Reveals More than 175,000 Rift Development Kits Sold

At yesterday's Oculus 'Step into the Rift' event, Oculus listed some stats about the spread of the Rift DK1 and DK2 development kits, showing that more than 175,000 units have been sold. The Oculus Rift DK1 dev kit was the...

Oculus ‘Home’ Brings VR Enabled Games Portal to the Consumer Rift

Oculus showed off their solution for virtual reality enabled software delivery platform today when they gave us a glimpse of the latest version of Oculus Home. Oculus' press event in San Francisco today may have been short, but it was packed...

Oculus and Microsoft to Offer Xbox One VR Streaming, Native Rift Support in Windows 10

At Oculus' special event in San Francisco today, Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox at Microsoft - announced a close partnership with Oculus to offer VR streaming of Xbox One games and native Windows 10 support for the Oculus Rift. Phil...

More Optimization Tips from Oculus for Unity-based Gear VR Projects

Chris Pruett, Oculus’ head of developer relations and co-founder of Robot Invader, elucidates more about the technical knacks for optimizing Unity-based works intended for the Samsung Gear VR mobile platform. See Also: Oculus Shares Optimization Tips for Unity-based Gear VR Projects In...

How Mozilla Plans to Build VR Into the Foundation of the Web

Though people speak of the 'metaverse'—a vast network of interconnected virtual worlds—as a far flung future concept, in reality we already have the underlying structure built and functioning on a massive scale; it's called the internet and it connects billions...

HTC Vive Setup Guide Reveals IPD, Eye-relief Adjustments, and More

With deliveries of the HTC Vive Developer Edition now arriving, Valve has released the 'Setup guide pamphlet' that's included in the box. Filled with classic subtle humor from Valve, the pamphlet also confirms IPD and eye-relief adjustments on the HTC Vive...

“World’s First Virtual Reality Painting Exhibiton” Takes Place 12-13th June, Presented by Tilt Brush

Tilt Brush, the made-for-VR painting program that lets you create anything and everything with the stroke of a virtual brush, have announced "the world's first VR painting exhibition" to take place June 12-13th, 2015 in San Francisco. Skillman & Hackett,...

Closeup with the HTC Vive Developer Edition Headset for SteamVR

The first Vive Developer Edition headsets and controllers for SteamVR are arriving and Owlchemy Labs have been kind enough to provide us with high resolution shots of the system, including the new wireless Lighthouse tracked controllers. The road to consumer...

Valve ‘Vive’ Developer Edition Kits Have Arrived – First Unboxing Images Appear

Valve’s first ‘Vive’ Developer Edition VR headsets and controllers are now shipping and some lucky devs already have them. We take an early look inside the box. Announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona back in March this year,...
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