There are various mediums for creators of different kinds within the VR ecosystem and Visionary VR’s Mindshow is giving users a platform to create and share animated narratives through virtual reality. We reported on the software back in April, where it left an impression on us as VR’s “missing character animation and storyrtelling tool”, and CES 2017...
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Dr. Oz is Using VR to Create The ‘Google Maps’ of the Human Body
Dr. Mehmet Cengiz Öz, better known by the simplified monicker, “Dr. Oz,” has quite the extensive resume. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon and professor at Columbia University as well as an author, speaker and television promoter. Now, you can add “virtual reality evangelist” to that list as well. Öz recently co-founded a company called ShareCare — a web platform...
SketchAR Lets You Trace Over AR Images To Become The Artist You’ve Aspired To Be
Augmented reality’s potential is immense. To say that of any new technology is increasingly cliché, indeed, but every few weeks another program or piece of hardware rekindles that train of thought and we have to revisit the declaration. This time around we have an application that doesn’t overlay our real world with entertaining or educational...
HTC to Offer Monthly Subscription Service for VR Content
Starting in Spring 2017, you’ll be able to pay a flat monthly fee for VR games using the Viveport digital distribution platform. HTC calls itself the first ever global app store to announce a subscription service for VR content. Announced at VRLA last summer, Viveport is somewhat of a parallel marketplace to Steam, featuring all-VR content across...
Hands-On: KwikVR Wireless Kit For Rift and Vive Releases in March for Around $300 — Save Your Cash
KwikVR, a wireless add-on kit for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, is going to beat TPCAST’s solution to market, but, if you’re desperate for untethered VR, you might want to hold on for the latter’s launch instead of jumping the gun early. Scalable Graphics, the cloud solutions company behind KwikVR, told me at CES this...
$3 Million Milestone: Owlchemy’s ‘Job Simulator’ Is One of VR’s Best Selling Games
Owlchemy Labs, the trailblazing developers of Job Simulator, today announced its VR game available for Rift, Vive, and PlayStation VR has officially cleared $3 million in sales, the largest figure we’ve heard to date for PC-based VR. The Austin-based startup raised $5 million in August after developing a number of fundamental interaction technologies for its Vive-bundled...
CES 2017 VR And AR News Roundup: Everything You Might Have Missed (Updated)
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, NV is traditionally one of the largest tech events of the entire year and CES 2017 is no different. Many of the biggest companies on the planet, from Samsung and HTC, to Facebook, Amazon, and Google, and even all the way to Ford, Mercedez, and countless startups, all gather...
‘Job Simulator’ Surpasses $3 Million in Sales, Becoming “most popular VR title to date”
Owlchemy Labs today announced that its tongue-in-cheek simulator game, Job Simulator (2016), has earned over $3 million in sales since its launch last April. According to Owlchemy Labs, this combined with the fact that Job Simulator has generated over 250 million views from videos created by the YouTube community, makes Job Simulator “the most popular VR...
Trinity VR’s ‘DiamondFX’ Batting Simulator is Made for the Major Leagues
We speak to Trinity VR about their Vive Tracker powered Diamond FX project which aims to provide realistic virtual reality simulations for major league baseball teams, all powered by years of real pitching statistics. One of the more off-beat uses of HTC’s newly announced Vive Tracker came from Trinity VR who have taken the Vive...
Video: Intel Project Alloy Shows Multiplayer Gaming in Mixed Reality Demo
Project Alloy, Intel’s VR headset with mixed reality (MR) capabilities revealed at Intel Developer Forum last August, got a little extra stage time this CES, as Intel showed off some more of the headset’s gaming chops. The video shows two users playing a multiplayer wave-based shooter from the comfort of a living room. Since it’s a tetherless...
