One problem with virtual reality is that you can’t craft your own characters, or avatars, the way you want them to look in the virtual world. Morph 3D wants to change that, and it is unveiling its 3D-animated avatars for VR today at the VRDC event in San Francisco. Matt Wilburn, the company’s chief operating officer, said in...
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The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds
The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. The Oslo, Norway-based company came out of stealth last year and is now working on a major project with a team of more than 100 people. Its partners are...
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Field In View: Please, Sony, No More VR Tour Modes
Gran Turismo should be a shoo-in for PlayStation VR. Sony’s most celebrated racing brand, one of the most beloved in all of the gaming landscape, makes perfect sense for the tech seeing as players are rooted to their seats the entire time. Bringing Polyphony Digital’s eye for detail and obsession with mechanical perfection into the...
PlayStation Pro Launch Brings 13 Confirmed PSVR Enhanced Games
Hot on the heels of Sony’s recent PlayStation 4 powered PSVR VR headset Launch, the next, more powerful iteration of the PS4 console will launch on November 10th and Sony have announced the games set to feature ‘Pro’ enhancements, including X for PlayStation VR. It was once the case that console gamers had to wait for a...
Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model
Valve has announced a new ‘Site Licensing’ model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés. Lets face it, VR is still expensive pretty much any way you slice it. And whilst...
Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology
The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. This time, at Oculus Connect 3, he made some bold, specific predictions about the state of VR in five...
New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 10/30/16
Though Halloween has passed, the horror games continue to come and will likely continue for a long while on the HTC Vive. We also had an influx of early access tower defense games and the most impressive of them blends the two genres. One of the Last is a zombie-riddled tower defense that shows a...
New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases for the Week of 10/30/16
Make no mistake: if you have an Oculus Rift, then this is Obduction week. Finally, the VR headset is gaining access to one of this year’s most immersive and perplexing titles — a game that we called a “cinematic VR marvel.” Beyond that are a slew of new games on Steam and some Gear VR...
Exclusive: Visiting ‘Wonderland’ With Trailblazing Startup Playful Corp.
I’m standing along a rail and there is a red trolley in the distance. It is broken and Daniel Hurd, Design Lead at Playful Corp., isn’t sure why. He pressed the button to call the trolley but it wouldn’t come. It isn’t too far away though, so I decide to leave Hurd and the others...