The gaming business relies heavily on sequels to generate revenues, but the artists working in this space are also capable of producing original concepts that we’ve never seen before. And 2016 was a wonderful year for games that weren’t a sequel to something already on the market. As part of our GB Rewind 2016 series,...
Facebook has acquired The Eye Tribe in a move that’ll likely see the Danish startup’s eye tracking technology being used to improve the virtual reality experience through Oculus. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the acquisition but declined to cite the terms of the deal. Started in 2011 by four students from the IT University of Copenhagen,...
Serial entrepreneur Jikhan Jung has been a proponent of social virtual reality gaming for years. The former CEO of Colopl Ni has decided to focus all of his attention on his San Mateo, CA-based development company Subdream Studios. His team in California has already released three free-to-play multiplayer VR games this year through Colopl Ni....
If you’re anything like me, you’re a little sick of waiting on Valve to actually make a big game for VR. The Lab is a great showcase for the Vive, but it’s just a mini-game collection. I want something I can actually sink my teeth into and lose hours in, recapturing the many late nights...
At 2:00pm on Wednesday, Twitter user Alex Pettitt quietly broadcast the first ever 360 Periscope video. Periscope is the personal live stream smartphone application that was acquired by Twitter for just under $100 million in 2015. This stream depicts Pettitt walking along a sunny boardwalk and can be viewed below: 360 Sunset in Florida. First...
Imagine if you could make the ‘Honest Trailer’ for the Oculus Rift’s Kickstarter campaign with the last four years of hindsight. You’d interject Palmer Luckey’s stubbornly optimistic comments about the future of VR with sarcastic quips about how long it would take to arrive, maybe laugh through the original endorsements from Valve in a pre-Vive...
Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe, a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. According to The Eye Tribe’s website, its technology, allows “eye control for consumer devices that enables simplified and enhanced user experiences. The Eye Tribe intends to become the leading provider of eye control technology by licensing...
VR has an obvious opportunity to pull users into virtual spaces modeled after fantasy or reality but there are some experiences that may not have immediately come to mind for the medium. Many of us have watched game shows from an early age and possibly even fantasized about being on one of the many shows....
There’s been more than 30 years of research into the medical applications of virtual reality, but it’s not until the recent consumer VR revolution that the technology has been cost-effective enough to use. The research shows that the combination of immersion with interactivity can help to reduce pain up to 70%, and in some studies...
The Eye Tribe, a Denmark-based eye-tracking startup, today confirmed they’ll be joining the ranks of Facebook’s Oculus VR. Both Oculus and The Eye Tribe today confirmed the acquisition with TechCrunch‘s Josh Constine. The specifics of the acquisition are still fairly thin however. Is the company going straight to ex-CEO Brendan Iribe’s new PC VR team in Facebook? Is The...
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