It’s not the biggest week ever for PSVR but there’s definitely content worth checking out. We’ve got a short new horror experience and a port of one of the best puzzle games for PC VR headsets. There weren’t any new releases last week but you can see the ones from two weeks ago here. UploadVR...
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New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For Week Of 07/09/17
Rift might be on sale, but its Gear VR’s time to shine on the content side this week with two big new releases. There’s some cool stuff for Rift too, but this is one of those weeks it’s better to be a mobile VR gamer. If you missed the previous entry of this list you...
Dear Angelica, Stranger Things And More VR Nominated in 2017 Emmys
It was almost a year ago now that Oculus Story Studio’s animated short, Henry, won VR its first Emmy, not that it did the little critter any good. The nominations for this year’s awards have just been revealed though, and there are plenty more VR experiences recognized. A total of six VR projects are getting nods...
Jump Is A New Subscription Service For Indie Games Including VR
A new gaming subscription service wants to take the mantle of Netflix for indie titles, and it looks like VR experiences are included. Jump surfaced online this week in a beta testing phase. This new service is designed to promote many of the games that might slip under the radar in between playing the year’s...
Using Apple’s ARKit, This Company Built Inside-Out Tracking for a VR Headset
Nexus Interactive Arts, an immersive media division of VFX production studio Nexus Studios, have used Apple’s ARKit working on an iPhone 7 in an experiment that creates basic inside-out positional tracking and pass-through AR for a Google Cardboard headset. Announced last month at Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), ARKit is an iOS 11 tool allowing developers to create AR applications thanks to the...
‘Echo Arena’ Will Be Free to Anyone Who Downloads in First 3 Months
Echo Arena, the zero-g VR sports game coming to Rift July 20th, is going to be free for anyone who downloads it in the first 3 months after launch, says production studio Ready at Dawn in an Oculus forum post. Echo Arena is the multiplayer mode launching alongside Lone Echo, a first-person, sci-fi adventure using the same zero-g...
Mel Slater’s Theory of VR Presence vs an Elemental Theory of Presence
VR Presence researcher Mel Slater is fascinated by what makes the medium of virtual reality unique and different from other communications mediums. He says that VR activates our sensorimotor contingencies in a way that fools our brain that we’re transported into another world, and that what is happening is real. He breaks this into two...
6 VR Experiences Nominated for 2017 Emmy Awards, Oculus Receives Multiple Nominations
The 69th Emmy Awards nominations are out, and while it’s true the Emmys were created to recognize excellence in the television industry, virtual reality as a medium has been lauded with six total nominations this year, three of which are thanks to content created by Oculus. There isn’t an official ‘VR’ section of the Emmys, rather the nominations...
nDreams Raises £2.7M to Further Develop VR Games, Signs Deal to Bring Exclusive Content to VR Arcade
nDreams, creators of The Assembly and publishers of the upcoming brawler Bloody Zombies, have completed an additional £2 million investment with Mercia Technologies, and £700,000 from private investors to create more VR games. In addition, nDreams has signed a deal to bring exclusive new content to a “leading VR arcade company.” According to a nDreams blog post, the VR arcade...
In the VR wild west, data is your weapon (VB Live)
VB LIVE: The first VR-exclusive game hit #1 on Steam’s Global Top Sellers list because the devs know how to turn data into actionable insights. Register now for this interactive VB Live event for their insights into integrating analytics into your VR game development. Register here for free. VR is a little bit like the...