Phaser Lock has made a name for themselves in the VR scene by being one of the first developers with a fully-realized game concept that was ready for launch with the HTC Vive early last year. Their debut game, Final Approach, put players in the God-like position of an air-traffic control officer as you guided...
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‘Bigscreen’ Social VR Desktop App Raises $3 Million Seed Investment Led VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz
Bigscreen Inc, the company behind the social VR desktop app, Bigscreen, last year told us they’d raised a seed round from “Tier 1” VC firms. Today the company has announced details of that round and where they’re heading next. Bigscreen is simple but powerful. It puts you in a virtual space with your own computer desktop floating in...
Bigscreen Raises $3 Million To Succeed Where Envelop Failed
Startup Envelop VR raised around $5.5 million for its platform which promised to use VR to surround you in limitless windows. The company’s VR tech basically extended the Windows operating system so you could theoretically work with a number of apps spread around you in VR. Ultimately, the idea was that legacy apps could eventually use...
The VR Awards Ceremony Announced For Later This Year
As consumer VR continues to establish itself in the market, awards ceremonies for the medium are increasingly inevitable. We already have some winners, but today we have a new event, too. The VR Awards is an international ceremony organized by VR Bound and partner companies, set to take place in London on September 23rd 2017. The...
This Tilt Brush Virtual Reality Painting is Unbelievably Realistic
Tilt Brush was already having a big week. On Monday, the highly praised virtual reality creation app made its debut on the Oculus Rift after only officially working on the HTC Vive for almost a year. Becoming available to an entirely new audience of content hungry VR fans will certainly be a boost to Tilt...
Wevr’s theBlu Lets Dubai Aquarium Visitors Go Beyond The Glass
The Dubai Aquarium & Underwater Zoo now lets visitors go beyond the glass and having an astonishingly intimate encounter with sea life thanks to the HTC Vive. Wevr’s theBlu, one of the first experiences to feature on the SteamVR headset, is one of a handful of VR apps on offer at the site’s new VRZOO....
Sony Showing More Believable VR Characters In PSVR GDC Tech Demo
Creating more believable virtual characters will play an essential role in further immersing us in single-player VR experiences in the future, and Sony intends to demonstrate that on PlayStation VR (PSVR) this GDC. The company’s headset traditionally has a big showing at the event, having been revealed there in 2014, but this is the first...
Hands-On: Superhot VR’s Forever Update Makes a Great Game Even Better
Like most people that have played it, I only had one complaint after completing Superhot VR for the Oculus Rift: I wish there was more. Well, get excited people because more is almost here. According to a message from Superhot Team, Superhot VR’s “Forever” update will be available in just a few weeks. The update is slated to...
Superhot, Pokemon Go Win For VR/AR At 2017 DICE Awards
There are plenty of awards ceremonies for gaming, but few are as respected and prestigious as the annual DICE Awards, tied into the developer conference in Las Vegas. This year’s event featured the first VR and AR games to be recognized. While console and PC juggernauts like Blizzard’s Overwatch walked away with most of the...
Panasonic’s Autonomous Car Design Includes An AR Equipped Cockpit
In many works of science fiction, from books to film, you’d be hard-pressed to not come across some sort of augmented reality. From glasses and goggles to cell phones and viewing screens, writers and filmmakers regularly lean on AR to express a futuristic aesthetic. In the real world, engineers have tried to recreate those futuristic...