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Baobab Studios Raises $25 Million in New Funding Round

There isn't a studio that can claim to be 'The Pixar of VR' just yet, but many heavy hitters in traditional media and tech are taking notice of the growth potential of animated films in VR, and specifically in Baobab Studios,...
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Watch a Disney Animation Legend Learn to Draw in VR

In a short film exploring the evolution of storytelling, veteran Disney animator Glen Keane, creator of some of the most iconic characters of all time, steps into virtual reality to learn how to draw in virtual reality, with Tilt Brush and...

London VR Dev Meetup Returns April 3rd with Holographic Streaming, New 3D Sound System, and VR...

Hackney House London is the new venue for the return of the London VR Developer Sessions in partnership with the upcoming Virtual Reality Show. The tri-monthly event presents a forum for immersive content developers to meet, share, collaborate and...

PlayStation VR Launch Bundle Pre-orders Back in Stock at Amazon from 2pm PST

Amazon have announced that launch bundles for the forthcoming PlayStation VR headset that include both the PlayStation Camera and Move controllers will be back 'in stock' and available to buy from 2pm PST today. The PlayStation VR is due to...

Sony PlayStation VR Will Have 50 Games by End of Year

At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR will have 50 titles by the end of the year.. Update (3/15): The figure is actually 50 titles available for PSVR...

Magic Leap Cancels TED Appearance and Reddit AMA, “Reasons Unknown”

If you thought you were finally getting your hands on some info about the secretive Google-backed startup, Magic Leap, you'd be wrong—at least for now—because amidst much speculation, Magic Leap executives have cancelled their public talks on the technology. Magic Leap is...

‘Pool Nation VR’ Gets NVIDIA Multi-Res Shading Support and More in Latest Patch

Good news for NVIDIA GPU owners today as Pool Nation VR was updated to include support for Multi Res Shading alongside other feature additions and improvements. Pool Nation VR is a firm Road to VR favourite, with our own Garret Bullard awarding the...

HTC’s ‘Arcade Saga’ Affirms Platform Agnostic Stance with Oculus Touch Improvements

Arcade Saga's latest updates feature multiplayer modes in all three of its futuristic sports and add Oculus Touch optimisations. Developed by 2Bears Studios, the game originally launched in December 2016 as the first title from Vive Studios, HTC’s internal development and...

WEARVR Weekly Top Ten VR Downloads – August #3

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. Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied landscape of...

Getting Ramped up on VR with Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist

Liv Erikson was able to to live out one of her dreams when she stepped into the Star Wars universe to battle against a lightsaber training Remote within Sixense's VR demo. This helped her discover that she has a...

‘Rec Room’ Studio Raises $5M “to continue to build the future of Social VR”

Seattle-based VR studio Against Gravity has today announced they have received $5M in seed funding to continue to build Rec Room, the studio's social VR platform. Only launching last summer, the app has quickly become a success story, winning over fans on both Steam and Oculus Home with...

Katie Goode on VR Accessibility & Designing for Users with Disabilities

Katie Goode is the Creative Director of Triangular Pixels, which has developed Smash Hit Plunder for the Gear VR and Unseen Diplomacy for the Vive. Unseen Diplomacy is a room-scale experience that has people crawling through tunnels as a...

Valve’s Jeep Barnett on Designing ‘The Lab’ for HTC Vive

Jeep Barnett is a programmer at Valve Corporation who has been on the VR team for the last couple year. He was at GDC showing off The Lab, which is a series of mini-games demonstrating different design principles within...

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...
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HTC Vive to Make UK Public Debut at EGX 2015, Sept 24-27

Valve's first SteamVR headset the HTC Vive is coming to UK's biggest gaming event EGX 2015 at Birmingham's NEC September 24-27. This'll be the first time the hardware has been shown publicly in the UK and will available to try throughout EGX's...
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