While visiting the Made by Google pop-up shop in New York City this morning, I had a chance to try out the new Daydream View virtual reality headset. First impressions are important, and Google’s new mobile VR product makes a good one. The headset is made of a soft fabric that most evokes a beloved...
What happens when a entrepeneur/theme park creator and special effects artist/magician team up? You get a team crazy enough to create the first true virtual reality theme park (sorry, Six Flags). They only have a single experience so far, but it’s already taken a giant leap beyond the wonders we’ve seen in today’s consumer virtual...
While you can’t turn art into a formula, the film industry has managed to come stupidly close. While many storytelling principles still stand across mediums, successfully crafting a compelling, immersive narrative in virtual reality requires a brand new rulebook. Through trial, error, and success, writer/director/editor Adam Cosco figured out the right rules to follow (and...
We’re set to see the actual debut of Google Daydream on October 4, and it’ll hopefully serve as a significant step up from Cardboard—their current virtual reality smartphone platform. If you want to get an early taste, you can set up a development kit—you just need two phones to do it. One of those phones...
Google’s Tilt Brush has proven to be one of the most compelling VR experiences for the HTC Vive, letting you paint with crazy materials like electricity and duct tape. It is clearly an experiment in bringing the joy of imagination to life—or creating some form of virtual LSD—and the app’s latest update brings a variety...
We already know what HTC won’t be showing at CES: the next iteration of the Vive. So, what is it showing? Apps. And lots of them. HTC revealed 23 of the more than 30 apps that the company is showing on the Vive in Las Vegas next week. We’ll see plenty of upcoming games like new...
When it comes to VR sales data, most companies aren’t playing their cards close to their chest so much as taping the cards to themselves. We’ve had to rely on software sales to get some inkling of an idea at how headsets and their software are performing. Thanks to Android’s built-in statistics for apps, we...
Featured image: President Barack Obama watching a virtual reality film captured during his trip to Yosemite National Park in 2016. Going outside in winter can be…well, terrifying. Luckily, makers of Virtual Reality have created amazing pieces for us to watch while buried in our big blanket/sack hybrids. (Snuggies? Snoogies? Whatever they are, I am definitely...
We check back in with Blade Runner 9732, a stunningly detailed fan developed VR recreation of Deckard’s iconic flat from the original film. The project was recently updated showing some incredible progress, but despite its near final status, there’s one snag which is holding up its completion. It’s been a little while since we last...
TPCAST’s wireless add-on kit for the HTC Vive has a new rival that’s promising to cut the cord on both HTC’s headset and the Oculus Rift. KwikVR from 3D cloud solutions company Scalable Graphics is set to debut at CES 2017 in Las Vegas next week as the latest device to try and remove the...
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