Survios, the VR development studio behind the Vive title Raw Data, has announced a whopping $50 million in funding to further expand its VR content offerings. The new round makes the company the most funded pure VR development studio to date. Survios’ announcement today is actually an announcement of two individual funding rounds together totalling $50 million....
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‘Perfect’ is a Relaxing Virtual Getaway for PSVR
nDreams, the company behind this year’s VR intriguing adventure title The Assembly, have announced a new project which offers an altogether different experience. Perfect is a transportative, relaxation experience which aims to whisk your mind away to beautiful locations in order to escape the daily grind. One of the most potent promise of VR is for...
These 3 Companies Are Working To Give Us Better Bodies In VR
Featured image showing avatars from startup Loom.ai. VR development is moving at breakneck speed on all fronts, and 2017 is set to see the launch of several long-awaited platforms like Sansar, which are all betting big on Social VR and user-generated content. Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and...
‘Push For Emor’ Is An Epic Tongue-In-Cheek Open World Sci-Fi Shooter RPG
The headline of this story has a lot of genres and descriptions included because Push for Emor isn’t a simple game. This isn’t just another wave shooter, you won’t find any zombies here, and you can actually move around. It’s an action-adventure title, mixed with a shooter, that also has RPG and RTS elements sprinkled...
The ‘Orah 4i’ 4k Live Streaming 360 Camera is Available to Pre-order Now
VideoStitch, the company behind the eponymous 360 post-production software suite, yesterday announced the launch of their first 360 camera, the Orah 4i. The all-in-one solution provides a 4k resolution image that can be automatically stitched and transmitted them live to VR headsets and video streaming platforms. There have been an awful lot of 360 camera solutions...
Google’s Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR
Let a thousand virtual worlds rain down from the clouds. Or <em>the</em> cloud as Google backs a tiny British startup with its massive computing infrastructure. The post Google’s Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR appeared first on WIRED. Source: Google’s Improbable Deal to Recreate the Real World in VR
HBO Makes its VR Debut on Google Daydream, Netflix Now Available as Well
Google is doing it’s best to make up for lost time when it comes to the virtual reality space. The Silicon Valley juggernaut may not have been first to market for smartphone powered VR with its Daydream platform and View headset (that honor went to Oculus and Samusng’s Gear VR), but it has been steadily gaining...
PS VR’s Psychonauts “Most Likely” Delayed To 2017
Delays are an unfortunate part of pretty much any industry, and VR is no exception. Some of PlayStation VR’s most anticipated games likely aren’t going to make their original release windows, for example. It was starting to look unlikely that Double Fine’s Psychonauts: In The Rhombus Of Ruin was going to make its original Q4...
Google And Improbable Join Forces For Cloud-Based Game Development Initiative
The power of The Cloud is becoming more and more robust as time goes on. Network infrastructures are getting more resilient, internet speeds are more stable, and access is wider than ever. It’s a big reason why SpatialOS from Improbable is poised to be a major force in the game development scene as time goes...
‘The Unspoken’ is Getting a Spectator Mode, New Classes, Arenas and Play Modes in 2017
Insomniac Games have laid out their plans detailing content updates for their Oculus Touch launch title The Unspoken – and there’s a LOT of stuff on the way. Insomniac Games launched have once again provided one of the highlights of an Oculus hardware launch in magic-dueling title The Unspoken, built for Oculus Touch which launched...
