The first time I played HoloBall was like a revelation. It’s a dead simple concept: swing your paddles at a ball and knock it back and forth between yourself and an A.I. opponent. The game adapts to your play space, meaning the more room you have, the more space you have to defend. It gets...
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Voxelus Inc Is Offering Equity For The Voxel Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency, a specific branch of digital currency, has grown at a significant pace in recent years. Bitcoin is the most notable cryptocurrency out in the wild, but different companies and entities use varying forms of digital assets in different ways. Voxelus, a virtual creative platform, is exchanging equity stake in the company for a percentage...
VR & Memory, and Fate vs Free Will in Simulation Theory
Hassan Karaouni is one of the 11 winners of an Oculus Launch Pad scholarship for his project My: home, which allows people to share 360 videos of locations that are meaningful to them. In my Voices of VR episode about Google Earth VR, I talked about how the principle of embodied cognition explains how our...
Oculus Touch Haptics Supported By Steam, Bringing Full Support One Step Closer
It’s happening. We know 53 titles are coming to the long-awaited Oculus Touch controllers when they start arriving on Dec. 6, and we’ve confirmed an additional 10 killer titles like Google Earth and Tilt Brush you can get through Steam that also work with Oculus Touch. Now just because these titles work, however, doesn’t exactly...
15 Free VR Titles You Should Download When Oculus Touch Launches
The Oculus Touch controllers are right around the weekend corner — it’s Friday and they come out on Tuesday. This much-anticipated launch is the culmination of a long road of research, development, marketing, and vision to finally allow VR gamers that own an Oculus Rift to bring their hands into the virtual space for the...
Korean Patent Shows Samsung Gear VR with Positional, Face and Eye Tracking
The Samsung Gear VR is one of the most successful virtual reality headsets of all time when it comes to pure numbers. According to at least one objective analysis, the Samsung and Oculus-developed device is projected to sell upward of 2 million units by the end of this year. This gargantuan number includes all the...
Gravity Sketch Will Try To ‘Pave The Way For The Future’ Of 3D Design In VR
Tilt Brush is positioned as a key application in the virtual reality ecosystem. Not just by the virtue of its early timing, Tilt Brush remains a high quality and ever evolving tool for those wishing to create in virtual spaces. With such a status, it makes sense that any new program even slightly resembling it sparks...
Horrifying VR Film Puts You Inside a Drunk Driving Crash
“Decisions” is a four-minute video that makes the terror of a deadly crash frighteningly intimate. The post Horrifying VR Film Puts You Inside a Drunk Driving Crash appeared first on WIRED. Source: Horrifying VR Film Puts You Inside a Drunk Driving Crash
How Schell Games Brought The Super Spy World of ‘I Expect You To Die’ To Life With Motion Controls
With December 6 comes the release of I Expect You To Die by Schell Games, an escape the room-style experience that has players facing puzzles and dangers as a super spy. The game is coming for Oculus Rift, with the new Oculus Touch controllers, and PlayStation VR, and its PlayStation Move controls. We spoke with Schell...
VR-capable Frostbite Engine Suggests More AAA VR to Come from EA
It’s been confirmed that the soon to launch Star Wars Battlefront X-Wing VR Mission on PlayStation VR is powered by DICE’s coveted Frostbite Engine, a strong hint that more AAA VR development is on the way from the company. Star Wars Battlefront is easily one of the best looking games ever made. That’s thanks in...