Welcome to this week’s virtual reality art roundup! This is our chance every week to highlight some of the best VR art that we have seen in the past seven days. Submissions are shown using Sketchfab, an innovative platform for hosting 3D artwork and making it available in interactive 36o degrees. This week’s creations were made using...
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3 Great Games To Get Fit Using Virtual Reality
It’s hard to be on the web these days and not see something about the impact of virtual reality on just about any industry, or the next big wave in VR in general. Being in the space directly, it’s very easy to get desensitized to it and a little jaded as well. People are shouting...
Vive Studios Takes a Swing at VR Boxing with Knockout League
Vive Studios and Grab Games launched Knockout League this week to bring arcade boxing to virtual reality. Grab Games made the classic boxing game for VR, and Vive Studios is publishing it today on early access on Steam for the HTC Vive. HTC is investing heavily in VR, which could be a $25 billion market by 2021,...
Field in View: Sony Isn’t Giving Up On PS VR, But Pacing Is A Problem
Look, I get it, it’s been a rough start to the year of PlayStation VR. A few weeks of drought finally ended last Tuesday when Resident Evil 7 launched, and the lack of big releases in December have some feeling the headset is starting to get left behind a little. Add to that the closure...
$4 Billion ZeniMax v. Oculus Verdict Could Come as Early as Today, Here’s What You Need to Know
This week the eyes of the virtual reality industry are on a federal court in Dallas, Texas where ZeniMax (and child company id Software) and Facebook (and child company Oculus) have been engaged in legal battle over a dispute which could cost Facebook $4 billion. ZeniMax alleges that a former employee used VR code that it...
Resident Evil 7 is Being Played in VR by Almost 10% of Registered Players
Capcom’s latest entrant to its popular Resident Evil franchise is currently being played in VR by almost 10% of its players, according to global statistics from the developer. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard is Capcom’s long awaited sequel to the company’s hugely popular survival horror franchise and it’s been warmly received by fans and critics since...
NASA & Caltech Leaders Aim to Revolutionise Big Data Visualization with VR
Virtualitics is new company started by NASA JPL and Caltech alum. offering a new platform to leverage the immersive properties of virtual reality in order to better aid human comprehension and use of ‘Big Data’. You’ve likely heard the term ‘Big Data’. Despite the phrase being coined perhaps as early as the mid nineties, with...
Google Opens Daydream App Submission to All and Publishes VR App “Quality Requirements”
Google has put out the welcome mat and unlocked the doors to all developers wishing to develop apps for their Daydream VR platform, but in order to keep the standards high have also issued a “Quality Requirements” guide. As we reported in September last year, just prior to the launch of Google’s Android integrated Daydream VR platform...
‘Elite Dangerous’ Update Will Soon Let You and 3 Friends Co-pilot Interstellar Spacecraft
Elite Dangerous, the interstellar space trading, fighting, and exploration simulator, has been teasing support for co-piloted ships for some time, and now a new update slated for the end of February will bring that feature, allowing up to four friends to fly together in VR. Elite Dangerous is not a VR-only title, but with support...
Preview: VR Music Video ‘Chocolate’ by Director Tyler Hurd is a Slice of Pure Psychedelic Joy
VR music videos seem to be digging out a sweet spot of quick and fun VR experiences that use the depth of virtual reality to immerse viewers in music with powerful and impossible visuals. Chocolate, a new VR music video directed by Tyler Hurd, furthers the case for VR music videos with electro-kittens, masked dancers, and...
