Unwrap a shiny new Vive yesterday? Well whoever bought it for you isn’t going to like this news (unless they got it on Black Friday): the headset has had its price temporarily slashed again this week. You can currently get the Vive for $100/£100 off, making it £659/$699 and there’s free shipping to boot. The...
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PokeScout Mapped Out Every Single ‘Pokemon GO’ Gym On The Planet
If you are planning a trip for the holidays, you now have a resource to find gyms in Pokemon Go before you arrive at your destination. PokeScout, an interactive map website for tracking the location and status of gyms in Pokemon Go, has finally added every single gym in the hit mobile game. Using this tool, Pokemon...
How Improbable’s SpatialOS Will Use Google’s Cloud To Democratize MMO Development
Last week, Google teamed up with the London startup Improbable to enable even the smallest developers to develop massive online games at low costs. Improbable has created SpatialOS, software that enables small companies to create massive, cloud-based simulations for online games, mobile devices, and virtual reality projects. In doing so, it hopes to change the economics of...
‘Twas The Night Before Riftmas: A VR Holiday Poem
Happy Holidays from all of us here at UploadVR! To celebrate we’ve written a little poem for you. Enjoy: Twas the night before Riftmas, and all through the night the young Palmer Luckey was nowhere in sight; His headset was hung by the PC with care, In hopes that St. Zuckerberg soon would be...
3 Great VR Party Games to Play With Friends and Family This Holiday
VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a few great VR party games let people both inside and outside of VR participate in the...
Developer Spaces Dedicated to AR And VR Are Becoming More Popular Than Ever
We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to virtual reality and augmented reality popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was the Upload Collective in San Francisco, which launched at the beginning of the year as a hybrid coworking...
Field in View: My VR Highlights Of 2016
Whew. What a year, huh? Last December the VR community was left guessing as to when the Oculs Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR would really release, and 12 lightning-fast months later we have them all and a new headset from Google to boot. This industry continues to move at a dizzying pace, and we can’t...
AR Optics Company Lumus Secures Further $30M in Funding
Lumus Ltd. recently confirmed a $30 million funding round led by Quanta and HTC. Lumus is a leading provider and developer of augmented reality technology. Following from the $15 million funding led by Shanda Group and Crystal-Optech in June, Lumus Ltd. recently announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Quanta Computer,...
New HTC Vive Releases For The Week Of 12/19/16
Along with Steam’s Winter Sale and Oculus’ as well, there’s a massive number of new Vive games to choose from this week at discounted prices. Deisim is one of the more curious highlights, giving us a god simulator from the VR perspective as you watch over your AI villagers or destroy the society they build. Mass Exodus is a...
New Oculus Rift and Gear VR Releases For The Week Of 12/18/16
We are officially in the post-Touch phase of Oculus Rift, meaning that releases are going back down to their usual consistency. A bunch of stuff will hit Steam each week and Home will get a few things here and there to pad out libraries. Let’s take a look! If you missed last week, you can...