SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Get that Cardboard viewer out and get it warmed up, VRgonauts! In this final installment (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) we’ll discover the transformative power of audio (when we could get it to work!) We’ll also tweak our final bugs and present our finished short to the world! After heated months of head-down production,...
Facebook’s Oculus had plenty of new announcements to make at its fourth Connect developer conference yesterday, but it all started with an ambitious goal set by CEO Mark Zuckerberg: to get one billion people into VR. Zuckerberg set this lofty ambition at the beginning of yesterday’s keynote. The CEO’s opening speech spent a lot of...
We went into Oculus Connect this year fully expecting an update on the company’s prototype standalone VR headset, codenamed Santa Cruz. As it turns out, we got more than we bargained for. While Santa Cruz remains in the development stages, Oculus has an all-new standalone device to show off this year. Oculus Go, as the...
The opening keynote at the fourth annual Oculus Connect developer conference delivered several new product announcements from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, VP of Virtual Reality Hugo Barra, and others. This included new standalone VR hardware, a new price for the Rift, and many software and game reveals. Affordable standalone headset ‘Oculus Go’ revealed: Image courtesy...
Immersive advertising company Vertebrae has extended its native ad platform to augmented reality via mobile Chrome browsers for Android and Safari for iPhone. Originally built for virtual reality, the platform provides advertisers with six templates. For the front-facing cameras, Vertebrae offers Virtual Try On, as used by Ray-Ban for sunglasses, and Dynamic Experience Mask, such...
We’ve already seen one VR experience tying into the recently-released Blade Runner 2049 on Gear VR, but next week will see another new piece launch on Oculus Rift. Blade Runner: Memory Lab is on display at Oculus Connect 4 this week and will be launching for free on October 19th with a Gear version following...
At least year’s Oculus Connect the company introduced Face Your Fears, a new horror-themed Gear VR app from Evolve developer Turtle Rock Studios. One year on, and the app has seen huge success. At this year’s Connect, Oculus announced that Face Your Fears had been downloaded over 1.5 million times. Oculus VP of Content Jason...
République developer Camouflaj is getting into VR with a port of its popular dystopian stealth series. République VR for Gear VR was announced on-stage at Oculus Connect yesterday. The developer is bringing the full experience over to the VR containing all five episodes of the original series and promising 10 to 15 hours of gameplay....
Today at Oculus Connect 4, the company’s annual developer conference, Oculus revealed the Project Santa Cruz ‘Prototype 2’ standalone VR headset, including 6DOF motion controllers. Though it might not look obviously different at a distance than the original prototype showed off last year, up close it’s clear that it’s actually a big step forward, including...
This week, a friend of mine said he wanted to be able to play games like Dungeons & Dragons at a virtual table. Oh, no problem, I said — check out Roll20, an app that helps people gather for role-playing games online. But then he said, “No, I mean virtual as in virtual reality.” Well,...
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