Oculus Quest’s inside-out tracking allows you to go beyond the limits of room-scale VR. The only problem is, most of us don’t have actual rooms that go beyond those limits too. But what if you could play in a larger area? What if you had, say, an entire field at your disposal? Well then you’re...
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Swiss Society of Virtual and Augmented Reality
Fan-Made Star Wars X-Wing VR Game Is Also A Study On Sim Sickness
Want to take on the Death Star trench run in VR and also help fight sim sickness? Then check this fan-made app out. University of Utah computer science student Dylan Stout recently shared this project with us. It’s a research study designed to explore “the correlation between VR sickness and reference points in a 3D...
China’s Netflix Just Released A $300 4K 3DoF Standalone Headset
iQiyi, the company best described as the Chinese equivalent of Netflix, just released another 4K 3DoF standalone headset. iQiyi is a subsidiary of Baidu, the Chinese equivalent of Google. iQiyi isn’t just comparable to Netflix, it even carries many Netflix original productions thanks to a significant licencing deal. This is actually iQiyi’s third 4K 3DoF...
Eternal Starlight Puts An Ender’s Game Twist On VR Tactical Strategy
Strategy games fit VR wonderfully. The sense of scale afforded when the camera zooms out such as in Brass Tactics or when you move units around a 3D galactic war zone like in Tactera is unlike anything else. Eternal Starlight is an upcoming VR tactical strategy game from developer White Noise that aims to put...
Ubisoft Bringing Assassin’s Creed VR Escape Rooms To Over 100 Locations
Ubisoft has been more deeply involved in VR development than most AAA-caliber game studios. From their early work on titles like Werewolves Within, Eagle Flight, and Star Trek: Bridge Crew to their latest release with Space Junkies, and now a seemingly growing line of Assassin’s Creed-themed VR escape rooms, they seem extremely invested in the...
Beat Saber Remains Unbeatable In April PlayStation Store Charts
If you thought any of April’s big PSVR releases might be enough to topple Beat Saber, well, you were wrong. Beat Games’ indie hit remained unbeatable (how did I only just think of that pun) in last months’ results. Beat Saber once again topped the charts in both the US and EU. Each list was...
L’association Suisse SSVAR obtient un partenariat avec STARMUS pour développer son application de réalité augmentée.
(presse) La Société Suisse de la réalité virtuelle et augmentée (SSVAR) a conclu un accord avec le festival STARMUS pour développer son application mobile de réalité augmentée et d’animer sur le thème de l’Espace un stand de réalité virtuelle pendant toute la durée de l’évènement. Mohamed Jean-Philippe Sangaré son fondateur, se dit extrêment satisfait de...
Nike’s iPhone App Will Use AR To Fit Shoes With Sub-2mm Accuracy
If you’ve ever tried to use augmented reality tools built with Apple’s ARKit or Google’s ARCore to measure real-world objects, you know that you’ll be lucky to get within an inch of their actual sizes — estimates that are of no practical value when measuring, say, shoe sizes for feet. So when Nike (via CNBC) says it has developed technology that will let its eponymous...
High Fidelity VR Firm Lays Off 25%, Focuses On Virtual Offices
Philip Rosedale, CEO of High Fidelity and a virtual world pioneer, confirmed that his company has laid off about 25% of its staff, or 20 people, and pivoted to social communications for workers using 3D audio. High Fidelity now wants to enable virtual meetings and social online communications, such as people would do in online meetings. In an...
Erick Tseng Replaces Hugo Barra As Facebook’s VR Product Lead, Jason Rubin’s Role Expands
Facebook announced the shift of some of its top VR and AR managers his week. The change comes as Facebook prepares to launch two new Oculus brand VR headsets in the coming weeks with plans for AR glasses in the future. Hugo Barra Moves To “AR/VR Partnerships” “VP AR/VR Product” Hugo Barra was hired in early 2017 and...