Editor’s Note: This guide is an edited version of a guide contributed by a dedicated member of the Onward community named Alex Tukey; he goes by the online name Nightfiree. The original, living version of this guide can be found in this Google Doc and may receive more consistent updates than this version. This version...
Tag: #virtualreality
Watch: Star Wars Battle Brought to Life in VR Via Tilt Brush
Designer and Creative technologist Dong Yoon Park has painstakingly recreated a Star Wars battle scene inside VR with Google’s Tilt Brush. Watch this beautiful digital art come to life in this walkthrough and speeded up realtime recording. Virtual reality artistry really has exploded since the HTC Vive gave the world room scale VR and tracked...
Sony’s ‘Joshua Bell VR Experience’ on PSVR is Among the Best VR Video You’ll Find on Any Headset
Powered by the PS4, PSVR might not be the most powerful VR platform out there, but the newly released Joshua Bell VR Experience shows that execution—not oomph—is a major part of what makes VR great. The VR video experience uses inventive techniques to give you an immersive front row seat to a world-class violinist, featuring positional...
A Chair In A Room Dev Wolf & Wood Returns With VR Thriller The Harbinger Trial
A Chair in A Room: Greenwater [Review: 8/10] is arguably one of the definitive VR horror games available today, even considering the release of games like Resident Evil 7 [Review: 9/10]. It was a darkly disturbing psychological piece that aimed for much more sophisticated scares than your average monster closet. For those brave enough to tackle...
Man Reports Sensation In Missing Fingers Using Oculus Touch
Bob Murphy was born without three fingers. The pinky, ring and middle digits on his right hand end around the first knuckle. Murphy is the owner of an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and he recently obtained the Oculus Touch hand controller system as well. According to Murphy, he acquired Touch “with the sole purpose to see...
Hue is a Heartbreakingly Beautiful VR Experience About Sadness and Color
Hue is very sad. I know this without a single line of dialogue, narration or exposition. The moment this tall, gangly young man appeared before me inside an Oculus Rift VR headset I could feel melancholy pouring out from every pixel of his black and white frame. Yes, Hue is certainly very sad, but with your...
Theseus’ Version Of The Minotaur Myth Looks Like VR’s God of War
We’ve seen ancient Chinese texts, historic works of art and more adapted for VR, now it’s time for our first Greek myth. Forge Reply, the developer behind Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf and In Space We Brawl, today announced Theseus, a new take of the Greek myth of the Minotaur, coming to VR headsets. This isn’t...
Get A Taste Of Ubisoft’s For Honor in VR With 360 Trailer
Ubisoft launched a big new IP this week in For Honor, an online sword battling simulator from the company’s Montreal studio. But what might the game look like in VR? The French publisher answers that question this week with the launch of a VR trailer for the game. It offers a 360 degree view of...
Paulo’s Wing Is A VR Game Created Using Google’s Tilt Brush
Developed by Google, Tilt Brush lets you create art in an immersive three dimensional space using your own two hands. We’ve seen a lot of amazing things created in the software. We’ve even seen an entire short film created in the app. What we haven’t seen, however, is a game which uses Tilt Brush to create...
See London’s New Waterloo Station Before It’s Actually Built Thanks To VR
London commuters are dreaming of one thing right now; a finished Waterloo station. This central hub of transport is having a bit of a redesign at the moment, and not all of its platforms are in use. It’s going to stay that way until the end of next year. But, thanks to VR, you can...
