Amazon US and Best Buy USA are currently offering $50 off the Oculus Rift+Touch bundle, bringing the price from $399 to $349. The offer was part of Best Buy’s Black Friday lineup, but is available today. A few hours after the Best Buy deal went up, Amazon price matched it. This is not the first...
Want to know more about VR marble maze, Arca’s Path? Look no further than this new developer diary. Members of developer Dream Reality Interactive are on hand to introduce you to the world of its first commercial VR game, in which you steer a ball through increasingly tricky levels using VR’s head-tracking functionality. The game...
It looks like HTC and McLaren’s VR F1 collaboration will be arriving in the west pretty soon. At the ChinaJoy event earlier this year HTC debuted a partnership with the motor company, putting visitors in the virtual driver seat of a McLaren F1 car. Attendees were able to compete for the fastest lap time in...
UK-based VR website VRFocus has laid off its entire editorial staff following CEO and Editor in Chief Kevin Joyce’s resignation, UploadVR understands. Yesterday, Joyce posted on Twitter that November 6th was his last day at the company. “It’s never been anything less than a rollercoaster over these past 5 years, and I’d like to thank...
Netflix’s internal hackathons have consistently produced fun and often silly hacks, from that “Netflixtendo” hack a few years ago that let you run Netflix on the original NES to the more recent “audiobook mode” that turned Netflix series into old-school radio shows by way of Audio Descriptions. This year’s hackathon doesn’t disappoint either, with new...
One of Apple’s most touted (but seldom seen on social media) apps, Clips, got an update on Wednesday. The new update adds to the app’s previous movie-inspired environments that use the iPhone’s TrueDepth camera system to allow a user to put themselves inside a 360-degree immersive environment while taking selfies. Don’t Miss: New York Times...
The landscape for mobile augmented reality apps is still mostly filled with utility and gaming apps, but a new entrant into the space is looking to pull children into the mix. A just-released iOS app called Bookful takes classic children’s stories usually found in large-sized paper books and brings them into AR, transforming classic characters...
An Oculus patent application revealed a detailed look at what is likely Oculus Quest’s cooling system. Standalone VR headsets generate significantly more heat than PC-based headsets because the CPU and GPU are within the headset, not inside in a PC. At Oculus Connect 5, Oculus confirmed that Quest uses “active cooling with a fan inside”. At...
Earlier this year HTC partnered with the Ready Player One movie to produce a promotional VR hub called the Oasis. The free app served as a portal to a range of minigames, some tying into the Steven Spielberg-directed movie (which is based on the book of the same name) and others reusing content from previously-published...
Researchers at The Imagineering Institute in Malaysia have demonstrated a technique that would allow smells to be transferred and sensed over the internet. The ‘Digital Smell Interface’ works by direct electrical stimulation of the smell receptor nerves deep in the nose. Last year, we published an editorial on why smell is so difficult to bring...
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