We won’t see Samsung’s next Galaxy smartphone, the unannounced S8, at Mobile World Congress next week, but it shouldn’t surprise you to hear that, when we do see it, it might well come with a new version of the Gear VR. That is according to smartphone industry leakster, Roland Quandt, who today noted that the...
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Inside an IMAX virtual reality arcade
We don’t know yet if VR arcades in the United States are going to find success, but it is looking like IMAX VR is going to give it a great try. We went inside the big-screen company’s flagship VR center in Los Angeles this week, and got a good look at their plans for arcade...
NBA All-Star Weekend gets highlights in virtual reality
NextVR has made significant progress across different leagues when it comes to VR, from broadcasting NCAA football games and tailgating activities to providing highlight packages for the NFL despite their slower adoption of VR and 360-degree live-streaming. The NBA has been a bit more active in their partnership with NextVR, including VR as part of broadcast subscription packages, and putting...
Bethesda Head Affirms Ongoing Work on ‘Fallout 4 VR’, Calls it “Pretty Incredible”
Bethesda Game Studios made the surprise announcement at E3 last year that the company would be porting the entirety of Fallout 4 to virtual reality, and confirmed it would be released for both the HTC Vive and in VR on the forthcoming Xbox ‘Project Scorpio’ console. Since then, the company has been relatively silent on the...
AltspaceVR Expands Cross-Platform Support to Google Daydream and Android
In an email to UploadVR, AltspaceVR announced that it will be releasing a “new version of its software” that consists of a “mobile app that fully supports Google Daydream View and also provides access into AltspaceVR for compatible Android phones even without a virtual reality (VR) headset.” AltspaceVR is a social, virtual reality experience in...
Watch: ‘LogiX’ is an Impressive Multi-User Visual Programming Interface for VR
Sightline developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík has released a major update for his collaborative ‘world engine’ NeosVR which adds an incredibly cool multi-user visual programming interface, so you and your friends can code together, entirely within VR. NeosVR is a collaborative ‘world engine’ that that aims to provide a platform for building the Metaverse, all entirely within virtual...
Emmerholt: Prologue Is a Promising Taste of Open World VR Adventure RPGs
In the early stages of our young industry the vast majority of VR games have been very tiny experiences that often focus on a core game mechanic and extrapolate gameplay elements from there. For example, The Unspoken is a fantastic game, but it’s really only about flinging spells at someone and that’s it. Similar to...
6 Reasons Why China is Leading VR Growth Worldwide
During the Fall, I was invited by Tsinghua, “China’s MIT”, to design a new blend of curriculum for their students. In a country where education is characterized by a predominance of test-taking and rote memorization, my goals were to unleash their creativity and critical thinking, while exploring the frontiers of learning through new pedagogy and...
Valve unveils a ‘cheaper, smaller, lighter’ VR base station prototype
We’ve already seen Valve tease the next generation of SteamVR controllers, now the company has offered a peak at a new base station. too. Company programmer Joe Ludwig showcased a prototype for the next iteration of the hardware at a press event inside the Valve offices earlier this month, captured on video by the Valve...
HTC Vive’s upcoming tracker hacked to work with Google Daydream
Back at CES we met a small creative studio with some big technical plans for the HTC Vive’s upcoming Tracker peripheral. The team’s name was Master of Shapes, and they were one of the groups that HTC had gathered to showcase some of the many applications for the new device. Specifically, they made a technical...