NextVR seems to be quite the busy bee. The virtual reality company continues to be a constant when it comes to live streaming major events, having just wrapped up highlights from New Orleans for NBA All-Star Weekend. This weekend, VR users will have the best seats in the house as FOX Sports and NextVR partner up...
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Watch: How ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Used Steam VR Tracking to Shoot VFX Shots
It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One, used existing virtual reality technology – specifically the HTC Vive and Steam VR – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Whatever you may have thought of the most recent arrival to the Star Wars movie universe, Rogue One had some undeniably impressive...
Hardlight VR $499 Haptic Suit Kickstarter Passes $80k Target
Hardlight VR is a new haptic suit from Nullspace VR that launched its Kickstarter last week. It’s already set to pass its original goal and the team have announced the project’s first stretch goal. We wrote recently about Nullspace VR’s haptic suit project Hardlight VR and the team’s intent to bring the product to Kickstarter....
Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC
This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they’ve been working on for GDC next week. It aptly highlights the subtle yet striking enhancements that eye tracking may being to social VR applications. We write just today that eye-tracking used inside virtual reality headsets, used...
Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One
Danfung Dennis of Condition One has an ambitious vision for the potential of virtual reality, and it’s one of the most radical ones that I’ve come across. He believes that VR can be used as a tool to cultivate compassion through having an embodied experience of witnessing suffering within VR. He says that the process...
ARM and SMI to Showcase New Mobile VR Eye-Tracking Demo at GDC
ARM Holdings and Sensormotoric Instruments (SMI) are teaming up at GDC to showcase the potential of powerful mobile GPUs, eye-tracking and foveated rendering technologies in a new made-for-VR demo that will debut at GDC next week. ARM, one of the world’s leaders in microelectronic design and the company behind the enormously successful Cortex mobile CPUs and...
Field in View: Is An HTC Vive Better Than Your Gym?
I used to think VR fitness was a dud. We talk about so many potential applications this technology has, but I just never saw the appeal of putting on a Rift or Vive and going for a workout. Surely getting hot and sweaty inside a plastic shell is a recipe for a misty, nauseating mess?...
Torment: Tides of Numenera developer’s first VR game returns to The Bard’s Tale universe
Welcome to virtual reality, InExile. The long-time independent studio announced The Mage’s Tale today. It’s an action-RPG for the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers, and it should come out later this year. Its setting is in the world of The Bard’s Tale, and it’s InExile’s first foray into virtual reality software — which market researcher SuperData...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: We dig into the Nintendo Switch and the new Zelda
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we reviewed the PlayStation 4 exclusive Horizon: Zero Dawn, Overwatch nabs another Game of the Year award, and the Miami Heat get into esports. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Pieces of flair and opinion The DeanBeat: Should you bring up Trump’s travel ban politics at a...
Superhot VR is adding intense new difficulty challenges
The game that lets you be your very own John Wick-style badass is about to get harder. Superhot VR is getting some new modes and challenges in its Superhot VR Forever update that is coming out March 7. Superhot VR is a first-person shooter for Oculus Rift (requiring its Oculus Touch controllers) that lets players...