I put off writing about Night Terrors: The Beginning for a long time. I’m a busy guy, you see. There is a lot of stuff going on in the VR and AR industry right now. That’s the only reason. It’s certainly not because I was afraid. I wasn’t scared of turning my phone into a portal...
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PS VR’s ‘Unearthing Mars’ Looks A Lot More Interesting In New Trailer
China-based Winking Entertainment is turning into a VR developer to watch. Its Vive game, Project Tres, is very promising, but its PlayStation VR debut, Unearthing Mars, is starting to look a lot more interesting, too. Unearthing Mars has a new trailer, and it shows a lot more of the game than we got to see...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Realistic Virtual Avatars Could End VR Harassment
Online harassment has been a common thread throughout 2016, and VR sadly isn’t a stranger to it. But the CEO of Epic Games thinks the tech will actually help combat harassment going forward. Industry legend Tim Sweeney said as much in a recent interview with The Verge. Talking about the issues with online harassment, he...
A Brief History of Virtual Reality at CES
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has served as a good way-point for VR’s progress over the years. With CES 2017 kicking off next week, here we take a look back at the highlights (and lowlights) from 4 years of VR at CES to gauge how far the industry has come and look for clues...
Subdream Studios Focuses On Social VR Gaming
Serial entrepreneur Jikhan Jung has been a proponent of social virtual reality gaming for years. The former CEO of Colopl Ni has decided to focus all of his attention on his San Mateo, CA-based development company Subdream Studios. His team in California has already released three free-to-play multiplayer VR games this year through Colopl Ni....
‘Vertigo’ Review – A Decent Stab At An Indie ‘Half-Life’
If you’re anything like me, you’re a little sick of waiting on Valve to actually make a big game for VR. The Lab is a great showcase for the Vive, but it’s just a mini-game collection. I want something I can actually sink my teeth into and lose hours in, recapturing the many late nights...
Twitter Quietly Flips The VR Switch: 360 Live Streaming Now Available on Periscope
At 2:00pm on Wednesday, Twitter user Alex Pettitt quietly broadcast the first ever 360 Periscope video. Periscope is the personal live stream smartphone application that was acquired by Twitter for just under $100 million in 2015. This stream depicts Pettitt walking along a sunny boardwalk and can be viewed below: 360 Sunset in Florida. First...
VR in 2016: The Trials And Triumphs Of The Oculus Rift
Imagine if you could make the ‘Honest Trailer’ for the Oculus Rift’s Kickstarter campaign with the last four years of hindsight. You’d interject Palmer Luckey’s stubbornly optimistic comments about the future of VR with sarcastic quips about how long it would take to arrive, maybe laugh through the original endorsements from Valve in a pre-Vive...
Oculus Enters The VR Eye-Tracking Arms Race With ‘Eye Tribe’ Acquisition
Oculus has acquired an eye-tracking startup known as The Eye Tribe, a company spokesman confirmed to UploadVR this morning. According to The Eye Tribe’s website, its technology, allows “eye control for consumer devices that enables simplified and enhanced user experiences. The Eye Tribe intends to become the leading provider of eye control technology by licensing...
‘CoLab’ Review – Want To Be On A Game Show? Come On Down!
VR has an obvious opportunity to pull users into virtual spaces modeled after fantasy or reality but there are some experiences that may not have immediately come to mind for the medium. Many of us have watched game shows from an early age and possibly even fantasized about being on one of the many shows....