Microsoft has enabled a long promised feature for their games console the Xbox One, the ability to stream games into a VR environment via a headset attached to a PC. Microsoft has been making significant strides to strengthen its offerings and stance on immersive technologies. The company has made several significant announcements regarding Windows 10,...
Chris Hardwick made it his life’s business to talk about the nerdy things he loves most when he co-founded Nerdist Industries over four years ago. Now, Hardwick is seen across a variety of TV shows, most notably Talking Dead, the recap talk show that follows each new episode of The Walking Dead on AMC. It should...
Uncovered among recent regulatory filings, VR metaverse company High Fidelity has raised $22 million in new funding. The company, which has reportedly raised $17.45 million across four prior venture investments, has raised a new round of venture capital to the tune of $22 million, reports the Wall Street Journal. High Fidelity CEO Philip Rosedale confirmed...
Ever wondered how Virtual Reality tricks your brain into believing things? Why you lose your sense of time and presence when you’re in an intense shooting game? Why VR sometimes bleeds into your dreams? Or maybe why VR sickness happens and how to design around it? Tune into the ResearchVR Podcast to hear about the...
I’ve got family members that play slot machine simulator games on their smartphones all the time. At first, it didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. If it’s fake money, then why does it matter if you win or lose? You’re just tapping a screen and watching flashy colors emit the results of...
Today, Facebook is taking the first step towards making its live streaming applications more immersive with the announcement of “Live 360”. According to a blog post published today by by product manager Supratik Lahiri and software engineer Chetan Gupta, Facebook will be releasing its first ever live, 360 degree video through a partnership with National Geographic. According to the...
Every week the UploadVR team puts together the new releases for all of the VR platforms. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift’s are often pretty extensive with games spread across genres and plenty of non-gaming experiences like short films and experimental forms of education. Getting closer to the Holidays, it’s expected that all of the...
Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally put some numbers onto these ongoing efforts when he revealed that his company had spent $250 million on...
VR escape room games are one of the emerging genres that are particularly well-suited for the affordances of VR, and Schell Games’ I Expect You to Die sets the standard for creating this type of puzzle game. I had a chance to catch up with game design director Shawn Patton at GDC in March where...
It should come as no surprise that a games industry veteran like Hideo Kojima is excited about VR. What is interesting, though, is what he makes of VR experiences so far. Simply put, he doesn’t sound too impressed. The Metal Gear Solid creator was recently quizzed about VR by IGN Japan, and, according to a...
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