SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
In a post to the company’s official blog, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe confirms he’ll be stepping down from the company’s top position to head the new PC VR group. Founder Palmer Luckey will also land in a new role. Brendan Iribe with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Brendan Iribe was one of Oculus founding team members back...
Nathan Burba, CEO of Survios, is quoted on the company’s About page as saying that the Survios team sees “gaming as an art form. And we don’t just want to make games more immersive — we want to make them more human”. Immersion is the buzzword of buzzwords in the VR industry, reflecting the unique promise...
Some days when you work on the media side of the tech industry, you get through the day by going through the motions, reporting on stuff you knew about a good bit in advance, and writing about cool upcoming games, events, and gadgets. Other days, you get an email in your inbox at 9:30AM PST...
Everyone’s got their own ideas on how to solve locomotion in VR. Climax Studios’ is to tie a bunch of balloons to a chair and give you a virtual joystick to control yourself as you float through the air. They’ve also given you a gun so that you can shoot down other player’s balloons and...
Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date. Survios’ announcement today is actually an announcement of two individual funding rounds together totalling $50 million....
nDreams, the company behind this year’s VR intriguing adventure title The Assembly, have announced a new project which offers an altogether different experience. Perfect is a transportative, relaxation experience which aims to whisk your mind away to beautiful locations in order to escape the daily grind. One of the most potent promise of VR is for...
Featured image showing avatars from startup Loom.ai. VR development is moving at breakneck speed on all fronts, and 2017 is set to see the launch of several long-awaited platforms like Sansar, which are all betting big on Social VR and user-generated content. Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and...
The headline of this story has a lot of genres and descriptions included because Push for Emor isn’t a simple game. This isn’t just another wave shooter, you won’t find any zombies here, and you can actually move around. It’s an action-adventure title, mixed with a shooter, that also has RPG and RTS elements sprinkled...
VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, yesterday announced the launch of their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution provides a 4k resolution image that can be automatically stitched and transmitted them live to VR headsets and video streaming platforms. There have been an awful lot of 360 camera solutions...
Lockheed Martin Joins Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance Board Lockheed Martin Brings Industry Expertise to AREA Board of Directors to Help Build Augmented Reality Ecosystem and Best Practices WAKEFIELD, Mass., USA – December 13, 2016 — The Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA) announced today that Lockheed Martin has joined AREA at the Sponsor level...
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