SSVAR blog talking about virtual reality,augmented reality and mixed reality.
Over the past few years, Snapchat has been building up an increasingly complex weave of partnerships. They have their advertising partners that power the vast majority of their monetization efforts. They have app developers on Snap Kit that they are also selling new features like CameraKit and Minis too. They’re bringing game developers on board...
Nearly three and a half years after launch, Capcom’s Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is nearing a total of one million VR users. As of writing, the horror sequel has seen 902,910 VR users. That is according to the game’s official stat-tracking site. Players must opt-in to be counted in the stats, so the real number...
US aerospace giant Boeing will use Varjo’s VR-2 advanced mixed reality headset to train astronauts for its Starliner spacecraft. NASA has used virtual reality for training for decades, but the low resolution limited the range of tasks that could be simulated. Boeing says this is the first end-to-end VR astronaut training system. Starliner, currently in...
Disney released its Myth: A Frozen Tale VR short on Oculus Quest. The project based around Frozen 2 is available now for $2.99. You can check out the trailer here: The project runs just over eight minutes long and is narrated by Evan Rachel Wood with music by Joseph Trapanese. The short features a mixture...
Valve released a developer preview for OpenXR support in SteamVR. The release is a big step toward what should ultimately represent industry-wide support for an open standard in VR and AR. Facebook’s Oculus Quest Android-based standalone also includes “prototype” support for OpenXR and Rift is also expected to gain support for the application programming interface...
Snapchat’s augmented reality dreams might be starting to look a bit more realistic. The company has been subtly improving its AR-powered Lenses every year, improving the technical odds-and-ends and strengthening its dev platform. The result is that today, more than 170 million people — over three-quarters of Snap’s daily active users — access the app’s...
Sony revealed its next generation PlayStation 5 console today, which features a new white design, a white DualSense controller, media remote and a new HD camera. While there was no specific PSVR news, the HD camera reinforces previous suggestions that PS5 should support current, and possibly future, PlayStation VR hardware. After a lot of hype...
Astro Bot Rescue Mission is one of the best PSVR games to date and ranks highly among the list of all VR games in general. Today during the PlayStation 5 reveal event, Sony announced a follow up named Astro’s Playroom, but neglected to mention any VR support for the PS5 title. The Astro Bots themselves...
There’s a new Boneworks update due out next week, and it adds what looks like one of the coolest weapons to the game yet, the board gun. Boneworks update 1.5 is called Zombie Warehouse. As the name suggests, it features zombified enemies (or at least, more zombified that the game’s traditional bad guys) and new...
Grab a chair, this might make you dizzy; we have the new trailer for Vertigo Remastered debuting at the Upload VR Showcase: Summer Edition on June 16th. That’s right, Zulubo Productions has been toiling away on a full remaster of its debut VR adventure, and we’ve got an exclusive look at how it’s shaping up....
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