SPACES is opening its latest location with Terminator Salvation: Fight for the Future in February at Cinemark’s Century 20 Oakridge and XD theatre in San Jose, California. The location at the Westfield Oakridge Shopping Center will offer the same Skynet encounter we enjoyed at the company’s first location at the Irvine Spectrum in Orange County,...
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Eminem Makes His VR Debut In Marshall From Detroit Trailer
Marshall Mathers, a.k.a. rapping legend Eminem, is making his VR debut soon but not in the way you’d expect. Instead of a 360 music video, the star is set to appear in the latest VR experience from Felix & Paul Studios. The first trailer for the piece just arrived. Helpfully, the trailer itself is shot...
Cinemark and Spaces team up to bring VR to San Jose movie theater
Spaces is teaming up with Cinemark Holdings to open virtual reality entertainment centers in a movie theater in San Jose, California.Read More Source: Cinemark and Spaces team up to bring VR to San Jose movie theater
Blippar to continue as a new augmented reality company after selling IP assets to investment fund
Augmented reality (AR) startup Blippar has found a buyer for its intellectual property (IP) assets, after the company revealed it was going bust.Read More Source: Blippar to continue as a new augmented reality company after selling IP assets to investment fund
A Fisherman’s Tale Dev ‘Really Open’ To DLC If The Game Sells
A Fisherman’s Tale hit VR headsets yesterday. If you hadn’t heard, we really liked it. It’s a poetic bit of VR puzzling you have to see for yourself. Still, we did have one small criticism of the game: it’s really, really short. But that could change in the future. In an Ask Me Anything session...
Microsoft Partners With VictoryVR To Bring A VR Curriculum To Schools
Microsoft is continuing to explore what its new mixed reality platform can do for education. The company revealed a partnership with VictoryVR at the Bett 2019 education event in London this week. Over the past few years, VictoryVR has been developing a standard-aligned VR curriculum for science subjects. As part of the deal, Microsoft is...
Blippar Reborn as One of Britain’s ‘Brothers Bling’ Buys Up Augmented Reality Assets for Relaunch
Augmented reality and computer vision company Blippar has a new lease on life, as previous investor Candy Ventures has completed a successful bid to acquire the assets of the beleaguered company. Blippar entered administration (the UK’s version of bankruptcy) last month after a dispute between investors. In a statement, Candy Ventures blames the Khazanah Nasional...
Jesse Schell’s ‘Wild’ Guess: 1 Million Oculus Quests Sold In 2019
I talked recently with Jesse Schell, the game design professor, author and VR developer. He’s worked with VR for decades, dating back to his time as a Disney Imagineer, and his studio Schell Games is responsible for more than a dozen VR and AR projects including I Expect You To Die — a hand-controlled VR...
Multiplayer Shooter Warzone VR Hits Steam Early Access This Week
Warzone VR from Sinn Studio (the same developers as VR games Wraith and The Perfect Sniper) is set to hit Steam Early Access for Rift, Vive, and Windows VR this week on January 25th. Billed as a large-scale VR FPS, similar to War Dust, there is a heavy focus on team-based gameplay and squad tactics....
Area Of Darkness: Sentinel Looks Like A Haunting VR Thriller
Upcoming psychological thriller Area of Darkness: Sentinel from Rematch Studios is looking really impressive for a first-time effort from a small indie studio. You take on the role of Dr. Anne Evans in 1978 as you play through three days of exploration and intrigue on the timeless Sentinel Islands. With full voice acting and a branching...
