Lower-priced cameras from long-time motion tracking company Optitrack could slash as much as 40 percent off the cost to track VR headsets and accessories over very large areas. The price cut could accelerate the roll-out of out-of-home VR experiences like The Void. The Void covers very large regions with Optitrack cameras overhead to find the locations...
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Hands-On: Symphony of the Machine is a VR Puzzle Game About Changing the Weather
The great thing about VR games is that they can take the most seemingly trivial action and turn it into an immersive gameplay mechanic. Games like Bounce create an entire multi-hour adventure out of trying to get a ball into a hole. Audioshield asks you to punch colored orbs. And now Symphony of the Machine,...
Check Out The First Footage Of Ark Park In Mixed Reality
Studio Wildcard’s ARK Survival Evolved might not be the best fit for VR. That’s probably why Ark Park exists. This spin-off of the popular survival game is on the way to the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and PlayStation VR (PSVR) later this year. This week, Wildcard and Ark Park developer Snail Games posted the first...
Obduction Finally Gets Its Touch And Vive Release Date
Cyan’s Obduction [Review: 8/10] was one of the best games released on the Oculus Rift last year, and soon HTC Vive owners will get to enjoy it too. The developer behind classic adventure games like Myst and Riven today announced that its latest title will be hitting the SteamVR headset on March 22nd. At the...
HTC’s First Viveport Developer Awards Winners Revealed
Back in August we reported that HTC was holding its first very Viveport Developer Awards to recognize VR content on its own digital storefront. Six months on, we finally have the first batch of winners. A total of five categories featured in the awards. They’re mostly named after the types of experiences their nominees offer,...
Looking Back at Virtual Reality Over the Last 5 Years
Remember back in early 2012, when VR was just thought of as science fiction, or at best as a failed experiment of the 90’s? That was 5 years ago. I know, right? 5 years. Actually typing that out makes me feel old. Back then, those of us who called ourselves ‘VR enthusiasts’ were just happily typing...
AR Specialist Zappar Nets $3.75m in Funding, Aims to “Democratize Augmented Reality”
Zappar, a London-based developer in the Augmented Reality space, is announcing the closing of its Series A funding round. The $3.75m investment will accelerate the development of several new products along with increased support for ZapWorks, their flagship content creation tool. Having worked with over 200 partners from the retail, television, film and packaged goods...
Obduction Finally Gets Its Touch And Rift Release Date
Cyan’s Obduction [Review: 8/10] was one of the best games released on the Oculus Rift last year, and soon HTC Vive owners will get to enjoy it too. The developer behind classic adventure games like Myst and Riven today announced that its latest title will be hitting the SteamVR headset on March 22nd. At the...
Qualcomm’s Standalone VR Is Getting Embedded Leap Motion Hand Tracking
Last September we reported on the fact that Qualcomm was launching their own VR development kit with the ability to deliver standalone VR. What made the VR 820 so compelling was that it had 6-DoF tracking as well as integrated compute (Snapdragon 820) which was on par with all the latest flagship phones. It even...
On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Samsung’s VP of Immersive Products & VR, Nick DiCarlo
Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software...
