Hideo Kojima has had a meteoric couple of years. The legendary Japanese game developer has always been well-respected for his innovative and artistic handling of the Metal Gear series, but he transcended to nerd icon status throughout his very public falling out with longtime Metal Gear publisher Konami. Kojima’s split with his once great ally captivated gaming...
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SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
The Best HTC Vive Deal Yet: $100 Discount + $100 Gift Card + Free Shipping
Microsoft’s after-holiday sale has one of the best HTC Vive deals we’ve seen yet, offering $100 off of the headset’s original price along with an additional $100 gift card to the Microsoft Store. Various stores have been offering $100 off of the HTC Vive in sales sporadically throughout the holiday season, but now Microsoft is...
Samsung Internet Update Adds ‘Experimental’ WebVR 1.0 Support
WebVR continues to build in momentum heading into the new year. Samsung recently added new layers to its VR web-browsing app for its Samsung Internet Browser for Gear VR with improved support for the WebVR API. This update includes support for the “experimental” JavaScript API, WebVR v1.0. This incrementally builds on the previous WebVR integration, which...
The ‘Disaster Report’ Series Is Coming To PlayStation VR
For many, the Disaster Report series is best known for its terrible voice acting, but the franchise does have a loyal following. Those fans will be happy to know the next entry in the series will support VR. Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories, as it’s quite brilliantly called, is coming to PlayStation 4 with...
Virtual Therapy for Stroke Neurorehabilitation & Skill Relearning
Larry Hodges is a professor of human computer interaction at Clemson University, and he was one of the co-chairs of the very first IEEE VR academic in 1999. Hodges also co-founded a start-up named Recover, which originated from a successful research project into stroke recovery done by his student Austen Hayes. Inspired by the latest...
Akonia uses holography to create transparent augmented reality display
Akonia Holographics, a startup in Longmont, Colorado, spent years trying to make holographic data storage work. It didn’t succeed, but now it found a new use for the same technology. The company now plans to use holography to make inexpensive transparent displays for augmented reality smartglasses. Augmented reality is expected to be a $90 billion...
10 virtual reality projects that show off the wonders of 360-degree video
As more filmmakers dip a toe into VR, the sheer volume of 360-degree video releases can be overwhelming. Samsung today just released its top five most viewed videos on its Samsung VR service in 2016, including The Conjuring 2 – Experience Enfield VR 360 and a couple of Six Flags rides, Twisted Colossus and Tatsu. Apparently the most-viewed video on...
Community Download: Who ‘Won’ Virtual Reality In 2016?
Cheerful non-denominational late-December greetings to all of you (see? I know how to be a successful journalist in this day and age). What many have spent the last 12 months calling the “year of virtual reality” is about to come to an end. 2016 was, in many ways, a mind-destroying procession of events that would each...
Khronos Gains Epic Games Support For VR API Standard
Virtual reality is a young industry and, in its youth, many are scrambling to see what best practices will raise this budding market into the strong and healthy grown up industry it needs to become to sustain success. With so many trying different things, best practices can get lost in the shuffle. Khronos Group is...
The 9 Best Oculus Rift Games That You Can Play Right Now (Touch Update)
The Oculus Rift is amazing. And this month it got even more amazing. Oculus Touch released on December 6 and boy, oh boy, did it bring some fantastic games along with it. In the face of such an incredible innovation we realized we had to update our top Rift games list to include these new...