CNN has officially launched CNNVR, a new immersive journalism unit and virtual reality platform with CNN Digital. Capturing major news events in 360 video, the global team will produce weekly virtual reality experiences and live streams. News organisations have tested the VR waters over recent years, for instance CNN’s work with NextVR on a live...
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Mission: ISS takes VR viewers into orbit to humanity’s greatest space station
Virtual reality is a great platform for users to experience fantastic worlds and wonders, but it’s also a portal into the real life wonders very few humans get to enjoy. Outer space is one of, if not the, most incredible of those wonders and VR users are getting an opportunity to be an astronaut. In Mission: ISS, visitors...
Gold Club SF VR ushers in realistic virtual reality for strip clubs
Daniel Dilallo was back at the Game Developers Conference a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn’t to show off a new Guitar Hero and Call of Duty game. Rather, the former game developer was at the Gold Club SF, a “gentlemen’s club,” to show off his new virtual reality app for the strip club, Gold Club...
How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017
While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by Akamai. We invited 25 CEOs and executives at virtual reality startups to discuss how to survive a possible drought of funding and slow consumer growth in VR. Our speakers were Greg...
Mother of Light: VR Artist Depicts Pregnant Beyoncé as a Golden Goddess
In case you are just now waking up from that coma let me be the first to tell you: Beyoncé is pregnant. That’s right, the Queen Bee is carrying twin…bee puppies? Bee kittens? What do you call a baby bee? Note: it turns out they are called “larvae” but I’m sticking with bee puppies for obvious...
The Crowdfunded Hardlight VR Suit Lets You Feel Your Virtual Experience
Haptic feedback is developing into an elusive achievement for the VR industry. Many different companies are attempting to harness the additional immersion haptics affords you within the VR platform, but nothing has caught on just yet. We recently reported on the EXOS glove which lets you feel your way through virtual spaces and even a rifle accessory...
From Within: Why VR And Empathy Go Hand In Hand
“TV shows and books can elicit emotions, but you always realize you’re watching TV or reading a book. In VR, you are so immersed in the technology that lizard part of your brain doesn’t recognize you’re in VR and just accepts this is where you are now.” I’m speaking to journalist and author David M....
Google Job Listings Point to New “Mass Production” AR/VR Hardware in the Pipeline
Google launched the Daydream View headset late last year, the company’s first virtual reality hardware product. As a smartphone clip-in headset, the View is a relatively simple device which leaves the bulk of the work up to the host smartphone. A slew of recent job postings however suggest significant new AR/VR hardware in the works from...
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC’s Vive Tracker
I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459 virtual reality game, I kicked a little dinosaur known as a Compsognathus, which resembles a dinosaur version of a chicken. It was in self-defense, as the little critter was trying to...
Vive Tracker could lead to an ecosystem of ‘hundreds’ of accessories
During UploadVR’s interview with HTC’s president of Vive in China Alvin Graylin last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on peripherals for its VR headset — like its upcoming Vive Tracker — in 2017 and beyond. In response, he pointed out that there could be “hundreds” of accessories for the HTC...