Tag: #virtualreality

AltspaceVR held the first UK live comedy show in virtual reality, which marks a significant strategic move for the company as it tries to prove the case for enabling people to attend live events in virtual reality. With mounting competition from platforms like Sansar and High Fidelity (both of which are in Beta at the...

Oculus has its winter sale, Steam has one too, and Sony isn’t missing out, at least in the EU. The PlayStation January sale is now on for European PS4 owners, and it includes the first sale of PlayStation VR games. 12 games are featured in the sale, all of which were featured at the launch...

This post is from the “Beyond The Headset” interview series. Jamie Pallot is a co-founder of Emblematic Group, one of the world’s leading producers of immersive virtual reality content. The company’s work has been shown at the Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW festivals; the World Economic Forum in Davos; the Victoria & Albert Museum in London;...

Virtual Reality hype is a worldwide phenomenon. However, at the moment there is no coherent ecosystem. On the one hand we have platform wars, where Vive, Play Station, Oculus and Microsoft compete for the users. On the other hand, we have cultural differences on the continental level: USA with its fast and agile Start-up culture, China...

McKenzie Stubbert McKenzie Stubbert is a resident composer for original VR films from Within, and is responsible for the scores behind more than 20 VR films so far, including The Displaced and Clouds Over Sidra. With McKenzie’s extensive experience, we thought it might be helpful to explore some of the things that have been learned about sound...

Media has always been a bridge to experiences we wouldn’t otherwise be able to see, whether via text, video, or photography. 360-degree media have given us dynamic looks into many different settings that may even be dangerous, but what of the people exploring in those dire conditions? Noel and Lynn Hanna, Northern Ireland natives currently...

My wife is an operating room nurse in her actual real life career. She spends her days wearing scrubs helping doctors deliver babies and perform often complex operation surgeries on all parts of the human body. Blood, guts, and tears sprinkle her floor and clothes while lives literally hang in the balance in her day-to-day...

The Unspoken is a multiplayer virtual reality video game that was released earlier this month as a launch title for the Oculus Touch platform. The game turns you into a modern, urban wizard tasked with battling others of your kind for arcane supremacy. In The Unspoken you can blast fireballs from your hand, hurl police...