Playing Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition using AltspaceVR was one of my first multi-hour VR experiences. It combined something that I was familiar with and brought it to new life with new capabilities using the power of virtual reality. Whereas Dungeons & Dragons in VR brings anyone from around the world to the same location...
Jaunt, the cinematic VR company, has today revealed 5 different content deals slated to go into production in 2017, one of which—love it or hate it—will be based on the seminal ’90s VR flick The Lawnmower Man (1992). And no, neither Pierce Brosnan nor Jeff Fahey have signed on to reprise their roles as the eccentric scientist Dr. Lawrence Angelo and the...
Google’s Tilt Brush app is evolving from a new way for artists to create into an important new tool in a developer’s arsenal. Back in October 2016 the search engine giant open sourced the Tilt Brush Toolkit, a set of scripts that allows developers to utilize .tilt files (your saved creations) in various ways, bringing them...
DigiLens raised an additional $22 million in a Series B investment round from Sony, Foxconn, Continental and Panasonic, along with venture investors including Alsop Louie Partners, Bold Capital, Nautilus Venture Partners and Dolby Family Ventures. Gilman Louie, founder and managing director of Alsop Louie Partners, said the next generation display technology will be glass. “Data...
Last week we reported that a full VR experience based on the Planet of the Apes franchise was on the way. As it turns out, there are actually two coming. The first VR experience is part of a collaboration between Fox Innovation Lab (the team behind The Martian VR Experience and the upcoming Alien: Covenant...
Content distribution platform and VR studio Within is partnering up with FoxNext, a recently created immersive media division of 21st Century Fox. The new partnership is promising to “bring viewers a new slate of virtual reality experiences this year,” the first of which will be based on Fox’s Planet of the Apes franchise. The first VR project, based on the dystopian...
LA and New York-based production studio Psyop has only dipped its toes into VR thus far, but it’s about to commit to a lot more. So far we’ve seen the company release one original piece of VR content, a small but effective experience named Kismet. It saw players meet a fortune teller and engage in...
The 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas saw Osterhout Design Group (ODG) unveil their new R-8 and R-9 glasses (source post on techrepublic.com.) Acting as a complement to user’s mobile devices, the R-8 glasses are intended as a consumer device, whereas the R-9 glasses target prosumer and light enterprise AR users. A press...
Tonight at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland HTC Vive announced that it will devote $10 million “to drive VR content and technologies that will create positive impact and change,” according to a company spokesperson. Vive is pledging these funds through a new program called VR for Impact. The money will also be used in conjunction...
Niantic and The Pokémon Company International have created 17 locations in Davos, Switzerland, to remind World Economic Forum attendees of the importance of fighting poverty. Above: New PokéStops for the World Economic Forum. Image Credit: Niantic The companies partnered with Project Everyone to raise awareness of the Global Goals for Sustainable Development at the World Economic...
By continuing to use the site, you agree to the use of cookies. more information
The cookie settings on this website are set to "allow cookies" to give you the best browsing experience possible. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click "Accept" below then you are consenting to this.