This post is from the “Beyond The Headset” interview series. Jamie Pallot is a co-founder of Emblematic Group, one of the world’s leading producers of immersive virtual reality content. The company’s work has been shown at the Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW festivals; the World Economic Forum in Davos; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London;...
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Hackvention 2016 Mashed Up A Hackathon With A Convention
Virtual Reality hype is a worldwide phenomenon. However, at the moment there is no coherent ecosystem. On the one hand we have platform wars, where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. On the other hand, we have cultural differences on the continental level: USA with its fast and agile Start-up culture, China...
Composer McKenzie Stubbert Discusses Making Music For VR
McKenzie Stubbert McKenzie Stubbert is a resident composer for original VR films from Within, and is responsible for the scores behind more than 20 VR films so far, including The Displaced and Clouds Over Sidra. With McKenzie’s extensive experience, we thought it might be helpful to explore some of the things that have been learned about sound...
‘Dating Lessons’ Review
Dating Lessons is an interactive dating course created by VR developers Cerevrum Inc. and self-styled seduction coach Manish “Magic” Leone. Supposedly tailored for heterosexual men with low self-esteem or shyness with the opposite sex, the dating course offers 11 lessons and 7 practical interactive sessions that promise to “give men tools to enhance their power of attraction and...
PokéScout has mapped every Pokémon Go gym in the world
If you are planning a trip for the holidays, you now have a resource to find gyms in Pokémon Go before you arrive at your destination. PokeScout, an interactive map website for tracking the location and status of gyms in Pokémon Go, has finally added every single gym in the hit mobile game. Using this tool, Pokémon Trainers...
VR and AR dev spaces are starting to pop up everywhere
GUEST: We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to VR and AR popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was Upload’s Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking space...
Jaunt lets you watch VR movies on the PlayStation VR
Jaunt has built a library of cinematic virtual reality films, and now you’ll be able to watch them in your living room on the PlayStation VR headset. The Jaunt VR App is debuting today on the PSVR, which went on sale in October. The movie-like content on Jaunt puts you in the middle of a...
Get A Glimpse Into Conditions Filmmakers Braved To Create ‘ClimbEverestVR’
Media has always been a bridge to experiences we wouldn’t otherwise be able to see, whether via text, video, or photography. 360-degree media have given us dynamic looks into many different settings that may even be dangerous, but what of the people exploring in those dire conditions? Noel and Lynn Hanna, Northern Ireland natives currently...
‘Surgeon Simulator: Experience Reality’ Review – Trust Me, I’m A Doctor
My wife is an operating room nurse in her actual real life career. She spends her days wearing scrubs helping doctors deliver babies and perform often complex operation surgeries on all parts of the human body. Blood, guts, and tears sprinkle her floor and clothes while lives literally hang in the balance in her day-to-day...
‘The Unspoken’ Was Originally an Open World Console Game Called ‘Wizards of New York’
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...