It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One, used existing virtual reality technology – specifically HTC Vive’s Steam VR tracking – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Watch how it was done. Whatever you may have thought of the most recent arrival to the Star Wars movie universe, Rogue One...
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Samsung Gear Finally Gets a Controller for Awesomer VR
Designed by Samsung and Oculus, it touches and swipes and clicks and shoots. The post Samsung Gear Finally Gets a Controller for Awesomer VR appeared first on WIRED. Source: Samsung Gear Finally Gets a Controller for Awesomer VR
GDC 2017: Vive Users Can Soon Pay $6.99 for a VR Content Subscription
At GDC 2017, UploadVR had the chance to speak with HTC’s president of Viveport and SVP of virtual reality, Rikard Steiber. During the interview, Steiber revealed the price point for Viveport’s upcoming subscription service for VR content. According to Steiber, the plan will cost $6.99 USD a month and will be available to current Vive owners...
GDC 2017: Khronos Group Unveils VR/AR Standard OpenXR
In December of last year, Khronos group made headlines for adding Epic Games to the list of companies in support of their pursuit of an API standard for virtual and augmented reality. Representatives for Google VR, Intel, and others already voiced their support of Khronos’ work by that point, but Epic’s Unreal Engine allowed Khronos...
Watch: This is ‘Sparc’, CCP’s Striking New Futuristic VR Sports Title
CCP games, the developers behind EVE: Valkyrie, have revealed their next made-for-VR title Sparc, a futuristic TRON-esque sports title for HTC Vive, PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift & Touch. This is Sparc, a new multiplayer sports title from the developers that brought us the slick online space combat shooter EVE: Valkyrie, one of the first VR-only...
‘Raw Data’ is Coming to Oculus Home with Reworked Touch Support & Cross-Platform Play
Survios, the developers behind the impressive first person VR action title Raw Data, has announced that the game is coming to Oculus Rift with fully “re-engineered” Touch motion control support and the ability to play online with your HTC Vive owning friends. One of the most accomplished early titles for the Steam VR platform and the...
Star Wars: Rogue One’s Director Used VR To Get The Best CG Shots
Star Wars films, new and old, are recognized regularly for incredible and grand filmography. The science fiction epic is larger than life and that demands a collection of practical effects and computer generated scenery to bring the many aliens, their worlds, and the massive battles to the big screen. Rogue One Director Gareth Edwards, no stranger...
GDC 2017: LG Headset Prototype Will Be Shown At Valve Booth
We just had a juicy bit of information dropped on us by Valve — LG is showing a headset prototype at the company’s booth. Very little is known about the device right now, though Valve did confirm to UploadVR that this is a SteamVR tracking headset, making it the second such device to be revealed,...
GDC 2017: Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney Thinks Social Interactions Will ‘Be the Number One Use’ of VR in the Future
Given that Unreal Engine powers dozens of VR games, experiences and toolsets, it’s no surprise that Epic CEO and Founder Tim Sweeney is excited about the future of the medium. But what does he think will be the killer app for VR? “I think social interactions are the thing that everybody’s underestimating,” Sweeney affirms. “The...
GDC 2017: Sparc is a New Tron-Like VR Sport from CCP Games
Do you remember the disc battle from Tron? Of course you do. Now do you remember Project Arena from CCP Games last year, the Tron-like versus game that resembled Tron’s disc battles? You might not, but that’s okay; now it’s new and improved with a fresh name: Sparc. “After our early experiments with standing VR gameplay, we...