Several years ago, in a warm Los Angeles court room a young man stood with his hand on a bible. His right hand was raised and his mouth was repeating a solemn oath. Once he was finished speaking, his name would be officially changed. He walked into the court [real name redacted] but would leave...
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Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit Fall 2017| Boston, MA | October 17-19, 2017
The Enterprise Wearable Technology Summit Fall 2017 is the annual conference of experts and professionals focused on real-world case studies and best-practice user examples of wearable technology. This event offers the opportunity for organizations to better understand the optimal uses of the new wave of wearable technology in business and industry. Venue Revere Hotel Boston...
Snap’s Spectacles Are Available Now For $129.99
Snap is no longer just about Snapcat; the AR app company today entered the wearables market with its new pair of Spectacles. You can now grab a pair of Spectacles through an online store — and not the single vending machine that was secretly shifting around LA last year — though there’s already a hefty...
VRCameraman Turns Your HTC Vive Into A Virtual Film Camera
Developing with a VR headset doesn’t necessarily mean you’re developing a VR app; the HTC Vive is finding unexpected use as a camera for virtual worlds, too. UK-based Abyssal Arts and GSProductions want to capitalize on that with the release of VRCamerman, a Unity extension that allows creators to use the Vive to shoot footage...
Fallout 4 VR Will Be The Entire Game With Different Locomotion Options
We first tried Fallout 4 in VR all the way back at E3 2016, and we really liked it, even if it had the same problems we usually see in full-scale first-person games. Bethesda’s solution to those issues appears to be the best anyone can come up with right now; give people options. Speaking to...
Report: New Gear VR Planned For Galaxy S8, Comes With Single Hand Controller
We won’t see Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone, the unannounced S8, at Mobile World Congress next week, but it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that, when we do see it, it might well come with a new version of the Gear VR. That is according to smartphone industry leakster, Roland Quandt, who today noted that the...
Inside an IMAX virtual reality arcade
We don’t know yet if VR arcades in the United States are going to find success, but it is looking like IMAX VR is going to give it a great try. We went inside the big-screen company’s flagship VR center in Los Angeles this week, and got a good look at their plans for arcade...
NBA All-Star Weekend gets highlights in virtual reality
NextVR has made significant progress across different leagues when it comes to VR, from broadcasting NCAA football games and tailgating activities to providing highlight packages for the NFL despite their slower adoption of VR and 360-degree live-streaming. The NBA has been a bit more active in their partnership with NextVR, including VR as part of broadcast subscription packages, and putting...
Bethesda Head Affirms Ongoing Work on ‘Fallout 4 VR’, Calls it “Pretty Incredible”
Bethesda Game Studios made the surprise announcement at E3 last year that the company would be porting the entirety of Fallout 4 to virtual reality, and confirmed it would be released for both the HTC Vive and in VR on the forthcoming Xbox ‘Project Scorpio’ console. Since then, the company has been relatively silent on the...
AltspaceVR Expands Cross-Platform Support to Google Daydream and Android
In an email to UploadVR, AltspaceVR announced that it will be releasing a “new version of its software” that consists of a “mobile app that fully supports Google Daydream View and also provides access into AltspaceVR for compatible Android phones even without a virtual reality (VR) headset.” AltspaceVR is a social, virtual reality experience in...