The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. Just like last year, they will run essentially concurrently again in and around the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. Panels and discussions kick off Monday 2/27 through Friday 3/3, with the Expo hall itself opening from...
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HoloLens is Helping This Medical Company Design Better Operating Rooms
Microsoft is talking for the first time today about a new customer of its HoloLens augmented reality headset: publicly traded medical device company Stryker. Stryker sells forceps, drills, nasal dressings, and hip replacement systems, but it also sells equipment for operating rooms. The HoloLens is a tool that Stryker can use to help hospital employees...
Along Together Is An Adventure Game Where You’re The Imaginary Friend
In January of last year, indie developer Turbo Button took to the world of Adventure Time and gave VR gamers a solid adventure title. Our writer declared it a trip worth taking, only being disappointed that it was such a short experience at about 90 minutes. Nevertheless, Adventure Time: Magic Man’s Head Games and Floor Plan...
On the Hunt for VR’s Killer App with Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi
Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App—a single, platform-defining piece of software...
MixCast is a Mixed Reality Broadcast and Presentation System from Within VR
Blueprint Reality is launching a tool dubbed MixCast VR that lets both game developers and consumers create their own mixed reality videos from within VR. The Vancouver, Canada-based company recently released its first title, the Awaken VR puzzle game, on the HTC Vive VR headset. And now it is releasing one of the tools that it used...
Wilder vs Washington: Stream Tonight’s PBC Heavyweight Title Fight In VR
NextVR seems to be quite the busy bee. The virtual reality company continues to be a constant when it comes to live streaming major events, having just wrapped up highlights from New Orleans for NBA All-Star Weekend. This weekend, VR users will have the best seats in the house as FOX Sports and NextVR partner up...
Watch: How ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ Used Steam VR Tracking to Shoot VFX Shots
It’s emerged that last year’s Star Wars: Rogue One, used existing virtual reality technology – specifically the HTC Vive and Steam VR – to allow the film’s director to compose visual effects shots for the movie. Whatever you may have thought of the most recent arrival to the Star Wars movie universe, Rogue One had some undeniably impressive...
Hardlight VR $499 Haptic Suit Kickstarter Passes $80k Target
Hardlight VR is a new haptic suit from Nullspace VR that launched its Kickstarter last week. It’s already set to pass its original goal and the team have announced the project’s first stretch goal. We wrote recently about Nullspace VR’s haptic suit project Hardlight VR and the team’s intent to bring the product to Kickstarter....
Watch: Tobii Tease Unnervingly Effective Vive Eye-Tracked VR Demo Ahead of GDC
This short but ingenious video snippet from eye-tracking specialists Tobii was built to tease a social VR demo they’ve been working on for GDC next week. It aptly highlights the subtle yet striking enhancements that eye tracking may being to social VR applications. We write just today that eye-tracking used inside virtual reality headsets, used...
Using VR as a Tool to Cultivate Compassion with Condition One
Danfung Dennis of Condition One has an ambitious vision for the potential of virtual reality, and it’s one of the most radical ones that I’ve come across. He believes that VR can be used as a tool to cultivate compassion through having an embodied experience of witnessing suffering within VR. He says that the process...