We’re coming up to developer conference season once again, and Google’s now dated I/O’s 2019 return. The event will take place at the Shoreline Amphitheatre on May 7th – 9th. CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the news via a tweet late last week. That just leaves us to speculate what will be announced at the show....
You no longer need to spend roughly one billion hours on a plane to get to New Zeland. WellTown takes you there in an instant using VR. Launching today on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, WellTown turns the New Zealand city of Wellington into a VR landscape. It’s a little like Google Earth VR,...
Walt Disney’s first real VR animation, Cycles, won’t be its last. Cnet reports that Disney is working on another “top secret” VR short film. Word comes by way of Cycles director Jeff Gipson, who will also direct the new project. Cycles is on display this week at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The...
Rocky is one of my favorite film franchises. The story or an underdog rising to the top and overcoming challenges in personal and professional life, failing, and eventually redemption across a whole saga of films is great and boxing is an excellent backdrop to the drama. Creed: Rise to Glory from Survios doesn’t quite capture...
Beat Saber Expert Plus PSVR support is landing this week (probably), and it looks insane. Expert Plus is the game’s hardest difficulty yet. PC players have been enjoying the mode since last year but it’s taken some time to get it over to PSVR. No doubt the difference in tracking systems between PC VR and...
People are going to make outlandish claims about Dreams. They’re going to say it’s a strange, unwieldy beast that was born from a wild imagination. And it’s true that Dreams is vast, impressive and bursting with potential. But if you have even a passing knowledge of VR, you’ll know that Media Molecule’s latest shares at...
One of Reddit’s key VR communities is seeing something of an exodus this week amidst a moderator fallout. Members of the r/Vive subreddit, which currently holds over 110,000 subscribers, have turned to a new hub named r/Vive_vr following disagreements with moderator and founder u/500500. The new subreddit already amassed more than 10,000 subscribers at the...
Samsung filed a patent application for a VR headset with a field of view of at least 180 degrees. The headset is described as using a curved OLED display. The patent describes attaining the wide field of view while maintaining reasonable size and weight as a crucial design consideration. To achieve this, the design uses...
The world’s largest game jam, the Global Game Jam, had its 2019 session this past weekend from January 25th – 27th 2019. A game jam is a short, usually two or three day long event, in which programmers, designers, artists, and more all gather together around a central theme and make small games very rapidly....
VR startup Sandbox VR raised a $68 million Series A round of investment led by Andreessen Horowitz. A blog post from CEO and co-founder Steve Zhao outlines how he gave the company six months of runway by taking “my entire nest-egg — all the money I had squirreled away from my time building Blue Tea Games over...
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