Adobe have down off their solution for editing immersive 360 VR videos within VR itself as they took to the stage at their annual ‘MAX’ event last week to demonstrate their prototype in-VR editor for Premiere, ‘CloverVR’. Adobe Premiere is almost ubiquitous in video editing circles, from hobbyist user all the way through to industry...
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Google Launching WebVR Support for Android Chrome in January, Desktop to Follow
WebVR is gaining significant momentum; last month the biggest players in the browse space came together to discuss the future of VR on the web at the W3C Workshop on Web & Virtual Reality. There, Google said that the company soon plans to ship a public version of Chrome on Android with support for WebVR...
ToneTree Launches Kickstarter for Oak Augmented Reality Playground
ToneTree is launching a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for its Oak augmented reality playground system. The Oak is a dock for your iPhone that turns any tabletop into an AR playspace. The product brings together digital and physical toys to create an AR experience. Augmented reality is expected to become a $90 billion market by 2020,...
Watch: Adobe Shows Off In-VR Premiere Video Editor ‘Project Clover’
Adobe have down off their solution for editing immersive 360 VR videos within VR itself as they took to the stage at their annual ‘MAX’ event last week to demonstrate their prototype in-VR editor for Premiere, ‘CloverVR’. Adobe Premiere is almost ubiquitous in video editing circles, from hobbyist user all the way through to industry...
Morph 3D Launches Customizable 3D-animated Avatars for VR
One problem with virtual reality is that you can’t craft your own characters, or avatars, the way you want them to look in the virtual world. Morph 3D wants to change that, and it is unveiling its 3D-animated avatars for VR today at the VRDC event in San Francisco. Matt Wilburn, the company’s chief operating officer, said in...
The Future Group Raises $20 Million to Blend Real-world Video With Virtual Worlds
The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. The Oslo, Norway-based company came out of stealth last year and is now working on a major project with a team of more than 100 people. Its partners are...
Field In View: Please, Sony, No More VR Tour Modes
Gran Turismo should be a shoo-in for PlayStation VR. Sony’s most celebrated racing brand, one of the most beloved in all of the gaming landscape, makes perfect sense for the tech seeing as players are rooted to their seats the entire time. Bringing Polyphony Digital’s eye for detail and obsession with mechanical perfection into the...
PlayStation Pro Launch Brings 13 Confirmed PSVR Enhanced Games
Hot on the heels of Sony’s recent PlayStation 4 powered PSVR VR headset Launch, the next, more powerful iteration of the PS4 console will launch on November 10th and Sony have announced the games set to feature ‘Pro’ enhancements, including X for PlayStation VR. It was once the case that console gamers had to wait for a...
Valve Move to Kickstart the VR Cybercafé with New SteamVR Licensing Model
Valve has announced a new ‘Site Licensing’ model which allows businesses interested in providing VR experiences to customers as an out of home experience. It seems the company have their sights on SteamVR powering a renaissance in VR-enabled Cybercafés. Lets face it, VR is still expensive pretty much any way you slice it. And whilst...
Oculus Chief Scientist Predicts the Next 5 Years of VR Technology
The annual presentation at Oculus Connect by Michael Abrash, Chief Scientist at Oculus, is always a highlight of the company’s annual developer event, projecting a forward-thinking and ever inspirational look at the future of virtual reality. This time, at Oculus Connect 3, he made some bold, specific predictions about the state of VR in five...