Tag: #virtualreality

While VR developers are busy working away on their projects, trying to deliver that mythical killer-app that everyone keeps talking about, modders are delivering updates to existing games that bring us all one step closer to the fully-immersive AAA game industry we’ve all been searching for. Earlier today we published a story reminiscing about Alien...

Buying a virtual reality headset in 2016 is difficult, especially if you haven’t gotten hands-on time with the various systems. It can be even more difficult when you realize there are incredibly simple, and low-quality, VR headsets available at most retailers. We’ve seen these systems at Target checkout lines, bins at Home Depot, Michaels, and...

The Oculus Touch is the long awaited peripheral that will take the virtual reality experience of the Oculus Rift to greater heights. The HTC Vive launched with two motion controllers and has supplied us with great examples of what the virtual reality game and application ecosystem could be in the future, but that’s not to...

The age of consumer grade video game console-powered virtual reality arrived early last month with the release of Sony’s PlayStation VR (PS VR) headset. It’s not as powerful as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, it’s not as portable as the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View, and it doesn’t really offer fully-featured roomscale...

It’s that time of year again. The time when your grandma asks everyone at the table to go around and say what they are thankful for this year. Well, for the next 300 words or so just consider me the grandmother of the VR world. So dearies, what are you thankful for? Lay it on...

While VR developers are busy working away on their projects, trying to deliver that mythical killer-app that everyone keeps talking about, modders are delivering updates to existing games that bring us all one step closer to the fully-immersive AAA game industry we’ve all been searching for. Earlier today we published a story reminiscing about Alien...

Attendees at next year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be the first to experience the debut 360-degree film from Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow titled, The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger’s Shoes. The 8-minute short film was created through a partnership with Here Be Dragons, National Geographic Channel, and Annapurna Pictures. Here Be Dragons creator Imraan Ismail served...

When simplifying the distinction between games played through augmented reality and virtual reality, just consider the environments. While VR video games provide us with fully realized digital spaces that we can maneuver within, AR experiences take our real life spaces and layers the digital creations over them. They both offer unique experiences with their own...

Just as the internet started to get excited about the prospect of one of the best PC strategy games of all-time, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, receiving a fan remake built from the ground-up for VR devices, Electronic Arts, the publisher behind the original game, stepped in to officially strike down the project. According to a...

Hollywood remains hooked on virtual reality. Brothers Andrew and Luke Wilson are the latest to make the 360-degree plunge. The pair co-directed a behind-the-scenes tour of Shinola’s Detroit factory, using Luke as the “man on the street” focal point for both the humor and the information that viewers will experience as they explore the massive...