MSI will announce the winners of its “Leading VR Experience” competition tomorrow. The overall winner will take home the lion’s share of an $80,000 prize pool as well as several other electronics and accolades. According to MSI they received over 600 applications for the contest and those entries have now been whittled down to a...
In this episode we discuss one of the main topics in modern VR – Storytelling, with one of the biggest German experts, Astrid Kahmke. Hackvention 2016 was a very productive time for us. First, we discussed wireless VR with Nicole and Dominic (which happened right around the Upload’s hands-on with TPCAST). Second, we took a...
I have to admit when I saw Twilight Pioneers for the first time I was more than a little skeptical. A free, first-person action RPG that used Daydream’s laser point controller as a sword didn’t sound like it would be very successful. Normally, this might be the kind of game we skip over. It was...
Even after the belated release of The Last Guardian, Fumito Ueda remains an interesting figure in the Japanese gaming industry, and someone we’d love to see work in VR. Ueda’s games have a distinct feeling to them. Their crumbling ruins and archaic worlds make them unlike anything else in the medium despite inspiring many other...
Hideo Kojima has had a meteoric couple of years. The legendary Japanese game developer has always been well-respected for his innovative and artistic handling of the Metal Gear series, but he transcended to nerd icon status throughout his very public falling out with longtime Metal Gear publisher Konami. Kojima’s split with his once great ally captivated gaming...
Microsoft’s after-holiday sale has one of the best HTC Vive deals we’ve seen yet, offering $100 off of the headset’s original price along with an additional $100 gift card to the Microsoft Store. Various stores have been offering $100 off of the HTC Vive in sales sporadically throughout the holiday season, but now Microsoft is...
WebVR continues to build in momentum heading into the new year. Samsung recently added new layers to its VR web-browsing app for its Samsung Internet Browser for Gear VR with improved support for the WebVR API. This update includes support for the “experimental” JavaScript API, WebVR v1.0. This incrementally builds on the previous WebVR integration, which...
For many, the Disaster Report series is best known for its terrible voice acting, but the franchise does have a loyal following. Those fans will be happy to know the next entry in the series will support VR. Disaster Report 4 Plus: Summer Memories, as it’s quite brilliantly called, is coming to PlayStation 4 with...
Larry Hodges is a professor of human computer interaction at Clemson University, and he was one of the co-chairs of the very first IEEE VR academic in 1999. Hodges also co-founded a start-up named Recover, which originated from a successful research project into stroke recovery done by his student Austen Hayes. Inspired by the latest...
Cheerful non-denominational late-December greetings to all of you (see? I know how to be a successful journalist in this day and age). What many have spent the last 12 months calling the “year of virtual reality” is about to come to an end. 2016 was, in many ways, a mind-destroying procession of events that would each...
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