When I was a young child my friends and I used to orchestrate elaborate games of Lego-crafted warfare. We hadn’t heard of Warhammer 40,000 or we likely would have been addicted, so what we did instead is create elaborate bases from Lego bricks at opposite ends of my room. We would then craft vehicles and transport...
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Man Loses More Than 50 Pounds Playing A VR Game
“I was unhealthy. At my worst I was over 300 pounds. It came to the point where my doctor finally said you need to get the heck in shape. I was at that lowest low point where he was basically saying you need to do something or you’re gonna die.” This was the situation that Job Stauffer found himself...
Report: New Gear VR Planned For Galaxy S8, Comes With Single Hand Controller (Update)
Update: Since we posted this story, an FCC listing for a new Gear VR controller has been uncovered, adding fuel to the fire. The filing’s Test Report clearly labels the device as a ‘Gear VR Controller’ though no other information about the device is revealed. Combined with yesterday’s report, it certainly seems likely that the...
Branded VR: Ads So Good You Won’t Look Away
Virtual Reality represents the biggest brand building opportunity in the history of marketing. Brands have long formed symbiotic relationships with emerging media technologies like print, radio, TV and social. Together, they bring the ‘new’ to the mainstream and help each other through the awkward early days. VR will soon combine the emotional impact of a local...
AirMech Command is Getting Touch And Vive Support ‘Very Soon’
Remember AirMech Command? It was one of our favorite launch titles for the Oculus Rift last year, showing what VR could do for the real-time strategy (RTS) genre beloved by many a PC gamer, and it’s coming back soon in a big way. Carbon Studios, the team behind the game, this week released the below...
HTC’s Vive President on What’s Happening in China & VR
Alvin Wang Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC, and I had a chance to talk with him at CES this year about what’s happening in China. He provided me with a lot of cultural context, which includes support from the highest levels of Chinese Government to invest in companies working on emerging...
On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Sony’s Head of PlayStation Magic Lab, Richard Marks
Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software...
Valve: Only 30 SteamVR Apps Have Made $250,000+ (and other truths of the young VR market)
During a recent media event, Valve revealed that only 30 VR apps have made over $250,000 so far on Steam. Now focusing his company heavily on VR development, Valve president Gabe Newell remains bullish on the future of VR, but isn’t shying away from sharing frank assessments of the still young industry. Sorting content ‘by VR’ through...
Double Fine dives into VR with Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Double Fine Productions wants to level up the quality of virtual reality games with its latest release: Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin for the PlayStation VR. The $20 title debuts today on Sony’s VR platform for the PlayStation 4, and it will show that VR is starting to grow up. Double Fine applied its...
Pokémon Go gets a surge in spending after introducing Gen 2 creatures
Pokémon Go got a wave of new content last week, and this has helped the mobile game generate even more revenue. Niantic‘s Google Maps-powered monster-catching mobile app is once again the No. 1 grossing iPhone game in the United States. On Google Play, it is still No. 3 behind Game of War and Mobile Strike. This...