SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Locomotion in virtual reality experiences and games is something that hasn’t been figured out entirely just yet. With headset tracking and sensors, players can move around defined spaces that reflect the rooms they inhabit to a degree, but you’re limited by the size of your physical space. And while there are options like teleporting to...
Snap has reportedly made an investment in augmented reality, purchasing the Israeli-based startup Cimagine Media in a deal that’s said to be worth between $30 million to $40 million. Originally reported by Calcalist News, through this purchase, Snap will establish a development center in the Middle East, one where it will eventually employ more than...
If you are planning a trip for the holidays, you now have a resource to find gyms in Pokemon Go before you arrive at your destination. PokeScout, an interactive map website for tracking the location and status of gyms in Pokemon Go, has finally added every single gym in the hit mobile game. Using this tool, Pokemon...
Last week, Google teamed up with the London startup Improbable to enable even the smallest developers to develop massive online games at low costs. Improbable has created SpatialOS, software that enables small companies to create massive, cloud-based simulations for online games, mobile devices, and virtual reality projects. In doing so, it hopes to change the economics of...
The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform. The game turns you into a modern, urban wizard tasked with battling others of your kind for arcane supremacy. In The Unspoken you can blast fireballs from your hand, hurl police...
The year 2016 may be remembered for many things, from the emergence of self-driving cars into the mainstream to virtual reality’s stab at being more than a fad. But for those who follow M&A activity around the world, Europe produced some notable exits at the hands of some big-name U.S. tech companies. And a handful...
Guides, Pokémon, and porn. Those are some of the most common themes you’ll find in our 10 most popular stories of the year. Our staff wrote hundreds of articles in 2016, covering news, reviews, interviews, opinion pieces, and more. And while we love all of our stories, some of them — for whatever reason — blow...
Happy Holidays from all of us here at UploadVR! To celebrate we’ve written a little poem for you. Enjoy: Twas the night before Riftmas, and all through the night the young Palmer Luckey was nowhere in sight; His headset was hung by the PC with care, In hopes that St. Zuckerberg soon would be...
VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a few great VR party games let people both inside and outside of VR participate in the...
We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to virtual reality and augmented reality popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was the Upload Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking...
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