Tag: #VR

In 2016 three major trendsetters in virtual reality – Oculus, HTC and Sony – released consumer headsets. It took at least three years and thousands of developers to explore boundaries of VR technologies, create new interactions patterns and test various game mechanics. No new unique game genre has been created yet, but many existing mechanics...

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. In a presentation this week in Beijing, Graylin, who has been closely involved with HTC’s ‘Vive X’...

Twentieth Century Fox is no stranger to virtual reality or 360-degree media, having used the mediums for promotion of their recent sci-fi blockbuster The Martian. Thus, it’s no surprise that the film studio and distributor and their Fox Innovation Lab is partnering with a company specializing in virtual reality to develop more experiences for the...

Last night at the Upload Collective in San Francisco, the Nokia Ozo team hosted a masterclass for 360-degree filmmakers. The class was also live streamed using a four camera Ozo setup. Students at the class were able to benefit from the expert teachings of Alex Henning. Henning is an award winning filmmaker that helped take home an...

Update: We received the following statement from Magic Leap about the departure: “Andy Fouche will no longer serve as VP of Public Relations for Magic Leap, Inc. As we sprint full steam ahead toward the launch of Magic Leap One, we are excited to have Brenda Freeman on board as our Chief Marketing Officer. We...

SUPERHOT VR is one of the standout VR games to come out with the Oculus Touch launch with its unique blend of the mechanics of a first-person shooter but with the strategy of a puzzle game. Physics-based interactions in VR are already compelling since it helps to cultivate plausibility within our brains through the expectation...

While much of the world moves to cloud streaming media libraries, there remains those of us that like to maintain our own personal local media library. Plex is a popular application for streaming your own library to other devices, and now a developer is creating a VR client that builds on the Plex platform. Plex...

Some moves within the tech industry are notable for the individual who is moving, while others are notable for the timing. I’d put this mostly in the latter group, with Magic Leap’s vice president in charge of public relations and global relations Andy Fouché tweeting “Thrilled to join stealth startup led by Andy Rubin!” out...

First-person VR narrative experiences welcome us into intense dramas by making users into crucial parts of the story instead of spectators, and Milk VR partnered with New York Times and some well-known actors to create nince cool shorts that exhibit this idea. We communicated over email with Armando McIntyre-Kirwin, Milk VR co-founder and director of virtual...

The VR industry today is likely not exactly what Brendan Iribe envisioned it would be back in 2012. At that time, Oculus had ambitions of releasing an affordable VR headset in the near future that would allow players to step into the game. The ultimate vision, though, was always a pair of sunglasses that would...