We reported recently on the massive (albeit temporary) price cut that the Oculus Rift and Touch bundle received during a special sale from Oculus. Owned by Facebook, who bought the company for a staggering $2Bn in 2014, Oculus is a leader in modern premium VR systems, but has suffered from relatively low sales thanks to...
Much of Project Cars 2’s joy comes from the minute details and exhaustive options developer Slightly Mad Studios gives you. There’s an element of simulation meeting sandbox here. Yes, the game delivers realistic driving that requires a considered approach instead of simple arcade thrills, but where and what you drive is really up to you, as...
In celebration of National Dance Day 2017, Upload LA is hosting an immersive exploration of the intersection between dance and virtual reality. Dance is the ultimate expression of bodily movement while VR is the pinnacle of visual experience. Combine the two together for a powerful, full-body immersive experience. Join us for an evening of dance...
It’s been a few months now since Facebook rolled out 360 live streaming to pretty much anyone with a camera capable of supporting it. Today, the company is revealing some enhancements to the program. Firstly, the social networking giant is announcing its Live 360 Ready Program which, as the name suggests, is similar to the...
Tiny Trax (2017), the tiny slot car racing game, is now out for PlayStation VR. Created by Brighton-based studio FuturLab, Tiny Trax gives you the tiny HotWheels-sized cars from your childhood and lets you tear around and the room, do incredible jumps and drift around bends on a slot track otherwise impossible outside of VR....
Facebook today announced new updates coming to their 360 streaming service including live 4k streaming support to VR headsets, image stabilization and a number of features that puts VR-ready 360 video more in line with the company’s standard streaming video service. Facebook also released a list of vetted 360 cameras and software suites so prospective content creators can jump straight into...
Tiny Trax is made by FuturLab, the developers behind excellent arcade shoot ’em ups, Velocity and its sequel. Compared through trailers, you might think their latest creation was something of a breather; a vivid tribute to the Scalextric toys from your childhood that wouldn’t require the obsessive skill, patience, concentration and dexterity needed to master...
Earlier this year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg teased a new form of input being developed over at Oculus: hand tracking gloves. We only saw them through a picture at first, but now a video has surfaced online showing them in action. An unlisted Oculus video posted last week, unearthed by Reddit, shows the gloves in...
The first version of Microsoft’s HoloLens Mixed Reality headset has plenty of room for improvement, but the company is working on a new version that will sport a new processing unit to enable the device to use deep learning. Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science on the HoloLens project, recently said as much in a new...
I’ve found myself getting back into virtual reality recently after my wife, Stephanie, asked me if she could play the launch game Audioshield. She remembered having a good time punching the notes from some of her favorite songs out of the air, but Stephanie stopped playing after getting pregnant. Our baby is six months old,...
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