Google Earth VR was launched this week to great excitement, except to Rift users who found out that the game wouldn’t work with their headset. Little more than a day later, a hack surfaced that adds compatibility for the Rift, Touch, and even Razer Hydra to Google Earth VR. While SteamVR is primarily the home...
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Protruly Releases First 360-Degree Video Capable Smart Phone
360-degree videos can be viewed in a VR headset, you can click and drag the video’s perspective with a mouse, or you can even rotate the view by swiping your touchscreen. We recently reported on Nokia and Sony teaming up for 360-degree content and also wrote up an impression on Verizon’s collaboration with Lucasfilm for...
New PlayStation VR Releases For The Week Of 11/13/16
This week we’re going underwater, into space, and over to Mars with PlayStation VR. It’s been a solid seven days for Sony’s headset with a handful of interesting new experiences that cross a range of genres. If you missed last week, you can see those new releases here. Also, UploadVR recently launched the ‘UploadVR PS VR Community’...
VR Drawing Program ‘Quill’ Will Be Available Free On Dec. 6
A lot of corporations out there have picked up the annoying habit of charging for their products. Thank goodness Oculus is here to buck that trend. This week, the Facebook-owned virtual reality company is announcing that yet another launch title for its highly anticipated Touch platform will be completely free of charge. Quill is a VR...
Special Senate Hearing Called To Discuss ‘Pokemon GO’ and AR
Earlier this week, a detachment of expert panelists were summoned to appear before a group of senators led by U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The AR squadron contained John Hanke (Niantic chief executive — Developer of Pokemon Go), Stanley Pierre-Louis, (General Counsel for the Entertainment Software Association), Brian Blau (Gartner Research...
Samsung Hosting Developer Contest to Find VR’s First “Killer App”
The two greatest quests being undertaken in the virtual reality scene today are these: the quest to find the perfect head strap settings so that your headset balances perfectly on your head (some say it’s impossible but I for one remain hopeful), and the quest to create the VR industry’s first, true killer application. Every NES...
Watch A Chimp In The HTC Vive React Just Like We Do
I’ve seen cats chase Mario across the screen. I know chimps are very close to humans. Still, nothing prepared me for actually seeing a chimp wearing a consumer VR product, the HTC Vive, and then reaching out to try to touch virtual reality just like I do. Yet here it is. A video posted by...
Google Expeditions Will Be Bringing VR To A Million Students In The UK
Google will undoubtedly be remembered for its influence in virtual reality’s exposure whenever we look back on things in the future. The Google Cardboard platform has been an accessible and inexpensive option for skeptics and the Google Daydream is shaping up to be a worthy contender across from the Samsung Gear VR, which is healthy competition...
‘The Martian VR Experience’ Review: An Intergalactic Rip-Off
Normally, we wouldn’t review something like The Martian VR Experience. Normally we’d give you some quick impressions about what would likely be a fun, if forgettable piece that puts you in the world of the movie. We’d tell you that if you’re a fan of the franchise then it’s something you’ll want to see, but...
Stanford Studies Control Schemes for Three-armed Avatars in VR
Researchers at Stanford think that having a third arm in VR could make you a more efficient (virtual) human. So they’ve set out to learn what they can about the most effective means of controlling an extra limb in VR. Thanks to high quality VR motion controllers, computer users are beginning to reach into the...