GUEST: We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to VR and AR popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was Upload’s Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking space...
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Jaunt lets you watch VR movies on the PlayStation VR
Jaunt has built a library of cinematic virtual reality films, and now you’ll be able to watch them in your living room on the PlayStation VR headset. The Jaunt VR App is debuting today on the PSVR, which went on sale in October. The movie-like content on Jaunt puts you in the middle of a...
Get A Glimpse Into Conditions Filmmakers Braved To Create ‘ClimbEverestVR’
Media has always been a bridge to experiences we wouldn’t otherwise be able to see, whether via text, video, or photography. 360-degree media have given us dynamic looks into many different settings that may even be dangerous, but what of the people exploring in those dire conditions? Noel and Lynn Hanna, Northern Ireland natives currently...
‘Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality’ Review – Trust Me, I’m A Doctor
My wife is an operating room nurse in her actual real life career. She spends her days wearing scrubs helping doctors deliver babies and perform often complex operation surgeries on all parts of the human body. Blood, guts, and tears sprinkle her floor and clothes while lives literally hang in the balance in her day-to-day...
‘The Unspoken’ Was Originally an Open World Console Game Called ‘Wizards of New York’
The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform. The game turns you into a modern, urban wizard tasked with battling others of your kind for arcane supremacy. In The Unspoken you can blast fireballs from your hand, hurl police...
“Everything We Do is Experiential:” The Many Innovations of Felix & Paul Studios
Felix & Paul Studios have been innovating on their own immersive VR camera technology since they pioneered the first-ever stereoscopic VR video with Strangers with Patrick Watson. They went on to sign a deal with Oculus Studios to produce a number of different 360 videos including the Introduction to Virtual Reality and a series of...
Jaunt Brings Award-Winning VR Content To PlayStation VR
Jaunt is a Palo Alto-based company that is currently one of the leading providers of 360-degree virtual reality content. The young organization managed to carve out a name for itself during the early days of the emerging VR industry and that first to market approach earned it a $65 million fundraising round in 2015 that was led...
Steam Winter Sale Discounts More VR Games Than You Could Ever Play
It was a good move on Oculus’ part to get out ahead of the Steam Winter Sale with its own deals; price cuts have just hit Valve’s digital store and there are more discounted VR games than you could ever hope to play. There are over 400 VR experiences now discounted on the platform. That’s nearly...
Amazon Hires Former Tribeca Director To Work On VR Content
Amazon’s plans for VR content still remain under wraps, but the company recently made a significant hire that gives us a small glimpse into what it’s working on. Film fanatics will know that Genna Terranova left her post as director of the Tribeca Film Festival last month. This week, The Hollywood Reporter noted that she...
‘Wonderglade’ On Google Daydream Gets Local Multiplayer Mode And New Mini-Game
Carnival-themed apps and experiences are becoming something of a sub-genre in the VR market these days. Between Pierhead Arcade, Carnival Games, and now Wonderglade, there’s a bit of something out there for carnival goers on most every VR device available. Wonderglade, the latest VR outing from Resolution Games, the creators of Bait! on Gear VR,...
