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Looking for a Job in Virtual Reality? Apple’s Hiring

If you thought a company like Apple was too big and too busy to concern itself with virtual reality, think again. A new job listing from the company seeks a software engineering who can create "high performance apps that...

Stuck in VR, Send Help

Hello people of the real world. My name is Ben Lang. If you're reading this message, you're reading words composed and published from within virtual reality. Joking title aside, I'm actually inside AltspaceVR right now as I type, a social...

News Bits: GTA V Publisher on VR Support “.. we’ll be first in line to give...

Take Two Interactive, publishers of the phenomenally successful Grand Theft Auto franchise have gone on record stating that if there is customer demand for virtual reality support in their games, it's ready to provide it. GTA VR Grand Theft Auto V,...

5 Insights for New VR Developers from DreamWorks Animation Head of Technology Product Development

At Samsung's 2014 developer conference last week, Warren Mayoss, Head of Technology Product Development at DreamWorks Animation, took to the stage during the second day keynote to talk VR. Mayoss shared some of the initial work that DreamWorks has...

Play ‘The Worst VR Game Ever’ and Support a Great Charitable Cause

It's not the moniker most developers would relish being attached to their work, but in the case of  the developers at Shiny Shoe, creators of Desert Bus VR, it's entirely appropriate. Drive the Desert Bus for Hope On a very long and...

VR Dungeon Crawler ‘Crystal Rift’ Launches Kickstarter Campaign

It's interesting to see genres and themes returning in an entirely new and yet familiar form. Grid-based dungeon crawler Crystal Rift is built from the ground up for virtual reality, yet draws on some very traditional game mechanics....

News Bits: Latest iRacing Update Adds DK2 Positional Tracking

iRacing's recent Season 4 update finally brought with it Oculus Rift DK2 support, but it was missing something fairly crucial - positional tracking. In the latest update available now, the world's most popular online sim racer has now addressed...

Mozilla Research VR Launches Experimental Website Compatible with Oculus Rift

Earlier this year Mozilla began exploring virtual reality capabilities for the web. Now, they have released MozVR.com, which they call “a VR website about VR websites,” in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Firefox. It uses a virtual reality...

News Bits: RiftMax Kickstarter Cancelled, Dev Asks Backers to Donate Instead

RiftMax has been on the cutting edge of virtual reality telepresence and broadcasting for some time now so it made sense that the developers behind the project would attempt a crowd-funding campaign. Unfortunately, that Kickstarter has now been cancelled. If...

News Bits: Oculus 4.3.1b SDK Update for Unity Apparently Fixes Judder and Unity 5 Support

As we've written before, Unity was been the platform of choice for most VR development from the very beginning of Oculus VR's release of the original development kit (DK1). Which subsequently means there is a lot of Unity based games...

Why Rothenberg Ventures is Gung Ho About Investing in Virtual Reality

Rothenberg Ventures is a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California. Started in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg, the firm has now invested in over 60 technology companies and was recently part of AltspaceVR's $5.2 million seed round. Dylan...

News Bits: ‘Blade Runner 9732’ Drops You Into Deckard’s Apartment

A project that started life as an exercise in 3DS Max height mapping, had now grown into a full-fledged virtual reality recreation. Step into Deckard's apartment, as featured in the 1982 Sci-fi classic Blade Runner. For me, as a huge...

This is the Beginning of VR Education, and It Will Only Get Better

At a school in the Czech Republic on October 20th, a groundbreaking experiment took place. Instead of pens and paper, students sat down with specially adapted VR headsets (Oculus Rift DK2s) that dropped them into a fascinating, immersive, educational...

Oculus SDK 0.4.3 Beta Release Brings Unity Free and Experimental Linux Support

Oculus just fired an email to developers notifying them of their latest SDK release, 0.4.3 Beta. The latest version seems like a significant release with numerous feature additions and stability / performance improvements. Oculus' move to a model of SDK...

iRacing Season 4 Update Brings Oculus Rift DK2 and SDK 0.4.2 Support

These last few weeks have been the best ever for VR racing fans, with updates to Assetto Corsa and Grid: Autosport both bringing Oculus Rift DK2 support. Now, iRacing, the biggest sim racer out there, has gone live with...
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