Tag: #virtualreality

The other day I wanted to play a round of Eagle Flight online. This isn’t an impulse that I’ve felt a great many times but it was Friday night and I was alone just getting back from a really cool party and so I thought “why not.” I strapped on my Oculus Rift, tapped my way into the...

Google is entering the music festival realm this year with news that it’s sponsoring and livestreaming a series of five shows spread across five cities, in support of five different good causes. Sponsored in conjunction with Good, a global media firm and and “social impact” company that seeks to address global issues, GoodFest kicks off...

It’s encouraging to see bigger brands tackle VR like the actual NBA with their NBA 2KVR Experience, but the new release gets completely outshined by a game obviously better-built for virtual reality even in early access: Nothin’ But Net. Also this week you get to become the beast in your favorite monster movies in King Kaiju...

This Thanksgiving holiday is about be thankful and appreciating the amazing year of VR we have had so far. Unfortunately, that doesn’t really translate into a ton of amazing new content this week for Oculus Rift or Gear VR, rather a ton of great content on sale instead — mostly on Steam. However, there are...

Until big releases start dropping next year, like Star Trek: Bridge Crew and Resident Evil 7, it will likely be a series of slow weeks for PlayStation VR owners. This week is no different as we get mostly a small collection of indie games and ports from other headsets. If you missed last week, you...

The conventional wisdom for VR content says: tread carefully. Don’t go too far. Ease your audience into this new technology with fun, thrilling, exciting things, or maybe a documentary with some sort of edifying lesson. In a new medium which has only just begun to penetrate the consumer market, should content producers treat their VR audiences...

Well it’s that time again. Time for Oculus to launch a commercial product. The company’s first foray into a worldwide release began on March 28 when it began shipping its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset via its own store and third party vendors such as Best Buy and Amazon. That launch was plagued by a mysterious component shortage...

In December of 1895, Georges Méliès, a Parisian stage magician, became obsessed with a new technology. The cinematograph, a device for capturing and projecting moving images, fired his imagination, but its creators, the Lumières, refused to sell him one. So Méliès spent a year designing and building his own camera. He taught himself to develop...

VR Cover told UploadVR via email late last night that its long-awaited facial interfaces for the Oculus Rift have officially begun shipping. A spokesperson for the company explained that the accessory is already being sent to backers of the successful Kickstarter campaign that created these items. VR Cover also “hopes to have them available for general release in a...

Children’s books are a very high-demand and lucrative industry. Bright, strong, and high-personality visuals combine with inventive and inspiring stories to capture the imaginations of children of all ages and origins. Dr. Seuss may be one of the most prolific authors, with his iconic visual style and hilarious rhymes, but I have strong memories of...