Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK. See Also: NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion Spatial audio is...
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NFL Refs Using STRIVR’s VR Training Platform to Prepare for New Season
The NFL continues to maintain its strong relationship with VR technology, now employing the STRIVIR platform to train some officials. According to a report by SportTechie, the virtual reality training company has been working with the NFL’s Officiating Development Programs for the past nine months, presenting game scenarios in a VR headset from a referee’s...
HTC Vive Reveals Extremely Limited Edition Front Defense Bundle With Themed Covers For Australia
HTC Vive is getting a brand new game bundled with every unit sold… at least it is in Australia. Vive Studios’ Front Defense, a World War II- era first-person shooter developed by Fantahorn Game Studio, will be included with every unit sold on the Australian Vive website until August 24th. Not only that, but the...
Here Be Dragons Gets $10 Million Investment
You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects they’ve worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A round of funding. The investment was led by Discovery Communications. Here Be Dragons has been creating...
Avatar Creation with Morph3D & Social VR Anecdotes from Chris Madsen
Custom avatars in social VR add a lot of fidelity of identity expression and creative flair in applications like VRChat or High Fidelity. Morph3D is a custom avatar solution that offers a number of free avatars within VRChat, but they also have a custom tool where you can customize your own virtual avatar. I had...
Stealth Game Espire 1: VR Operative Debuts A New Take On Smooth Locomotion
I’ve wanted a great stealth game in VR ever since consumer-grade headsets started hitting the market. When you’re wearing a headset you at first have a tendency to either sit or stand in one place without moving too much. But then you take a step, and you lean around, and you reach out with motion...
There Will Be No Proto Awards In 2017, Return Planned In 2018
The organizers of VR’s biggest awards ceremony, The Proto Awards, say they won’t be hosting an event in 2017. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is...
Coldplay to Livestream ‘Head Full of Dreams’ Concert on Gear VR for Free Next Week
Ever wanted to go to a Coldplay concert? If you own a Gear VR headset, you’ve got a free ticket for the VR livestream of the band’s ‘A Head Full of Dreams’ performance next week. Samsung and Live Nation are teaming up to bring Coldplay’s performance on August 17th from Chicago’s Soldier Field straight to your...
‘Tron’ Star Jeff Bridges Thinks ‘Tron 3’ Should be the “first virtual reality movie”
Speaking on an Entertainment Weekly radio show to be aired on August 15th, actor Jeff Bridges, star of Tron (1982) and sequel Tron: Legacy (2010), suggested that a third Tron feature should be “the first virtual reality movie.” Posted in a short entry on the Entertainment Weekly website, writer Clark Collis explained that he was prompted...
Chris Milk’s Here Be Dragons Gets $10 Million Investment
You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects they’ve worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A round of funding. The investment was led by Discovery Communications. Here Be Dragons has been creating...