The supernatural VR series Invisible from Doug Liman, director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow, launched a week ago on Samsung VR, but now you can access the 5-part series across any device via Jaunt. The series is a first-of-its-kind scripted 360-degree video project about a powerful family with an intriguing secret — an invisibility gene. The...
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Fruit Ninja VR’s Halloween Update Includes Contest for Rare Bat Blade
Fruit Ninja has had a long and fun journey from being a mobile hit to one of the most addicting VR attractions around. The game is a sword-wielding party game tasking players with slicing up fruit in various settings. There are several modes, including a Zen Mode for peaceful stress relief with no time limits or challenges,...
‘Craft Keep VR’ on Vive Turns You Into The Blacksmith That Makes Adventurers’ Weapons
Remember those cheesy movie scenes in which a mighty blacksmith uses fires hotter than the sun and hammers bigger than their heads to forge awesome weaponry? In Craft Keep VR, you can be that guy. This new HTC Vive game from developer Arvydas Žemaitis and publisher Excalibur Games was announced this week. It’s a spin-off...
NextVR to Broadcast Over 20 Live NBA Games This Season, Coverage Starts Tonight
NextVR, the leader in live VR sports broadcasting, today released their full schedule for their live NBA coverage, including 25 games featuring 30 teams throughout the 2016-2017 season. Make sure to have your phone battery charged, your Gear VR lenses cleaned and ready to go tonight though, because the first VR live coverage starts tonight at 10:30...
Watch: Square Enix’s ‘Project Hikari’ Melds Manga and VR
By now, there have been many attempts at storytelling in VR that have been inspired by various traditional forms of entertainment, such as film or animation, but with Project Hikari the Square Enix Advanced Technology Division is pioneering the concept of what it would be like to adapt existing manga into immersive VR experiences. I was able...
Oculus Story Studio Creative Director on ‘Quill’, an Immersive Storytelling Tool
Oculus Story Studio has been exploring VR storytelling through a series of short narrative experiences starting with Lost and Henry, but they wanted to push the envelope of immersive storytelling with their next short titled Dear Angelica. They developed a new content creation tool called Quill that enables artists using Touch to create immersive illustrations...
Microsoft May Leapfrog Facebook and Google in VR With HoloLens Tracking
Microsoft’s play for command of next generation personal computing can be seen today with the announcement of a series of Windows-powered VR headsets starting at $300. The headsets planned from HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, and Acer will use what’s known as “inside-out” position tracking. The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but...
‘Vivepaper’ Is HTC’s Immersive Reading Experience That Mixes AR With VR
Based on our recent talk with VP of content, Joel Breton, HTC has plenty of experiences in the works for its Vive VR headset across a wide range of categories. Though you probably wouldn’t have guessed it, one of those categories is virtual reading. Vive this week announced Vivepaper, an intriguing new VR app developed...
PS VR Demand “Exceeded” Expectations, GameStop Ordering “Additional Units For Holiday”
Earlier this month Sony launched its PlayStation VR headset into the wild, sporting a large launch lineup of games from the pulse-pounding competitive shooter, Rigs, to the white-knuckle racer, Driveclub VR, and an excellent assortment of smaller games such as Thumper, Bound, and SUPERHYPERCUBE. There is assuredly something for most everybody on PS VR already....
Justin Roiland (‘Rick and Morty’) To Host Live VR Talk Show With Reggie Watts
Today is a good day to be a fan of both comedy and virtual reality. Tonight, Justin Roiland (Rick and Morty) and Reggie Watts (Comedy Bang Bang, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert) will be joining forces inside AltspaceVR to host a live talk show and all of you are invited. The talk show will be...