Today, Crytek is revealing details for the brand new mountain it will be releasing as part of next week’s free Oculus Touch update for The Climb. We are less than a week away from the release of Oculus Touch. On December 6 the $199 controller add-on for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will begin shipping to...
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American Heroes Channel Releases Civil War 360-Degree Video Tie-In For Upcoming TV Series
The American Heroes Channel recently released a new 360-degree video titled Civil War: Letter From the Trenches. The video is planned to serve as a companion piece for Blood and Fury: America’s Civil War, a TV series scheduled to debut on Dec. 14th on AHC. The series will show the war from the perspective of soldiers during...
Exclusive: ‘ROM: Extraction’ Teaser Trailer Reveals Terrifying Alien Robots
When we first broke the news about ROM: Extraction by First Contact with our hands-on reveal last month, we didn’t have any footage to show you — only art work and a few teaser images. Now, that is unfortunately not a whole lot different, as we just have a brief and tantalizing teaser trailer along...
Disfellowshipped Is Investigative Journalism Adapted To Immersive Media
News outlets like USA Today and Huffington Post have turned to 360-degree media to add a new layer to reporting in recent months. Though interesting, both works are just brief looks into various topics. Investigative journalism is a deeper dive into specific topics and The Center for Investigative Journalism, also known as Reveal, is using immersive media to...
AR Glasses Company ODG Raises $58 Million Series A Round
San Francisco-based Osterhout Design Group (ODG) said it closed a large $58 million Series A funding round, and will use the money to “accelerate its existing production capabilities” and “complete its new products” to be introduced at CES in January. Shenzhen O-film Tech Co., Ltd., Vanfund Urban Investment & Development Co. Ltd., 21st Century Fox...
Leap Of Faith: Behind The Making Of The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Movie VR Experience
In mid-October we learned about an upcoming VR experience was in development to accompany the theatrical release of the Assassin’s Creed feature film starring Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Inglourious Basterds). As it turns out, the project is a large-scale collaboration between AMD, Alienware, Practical Magic, 20th Century Fox, New Regency, and...
ODG Raises $58 Million Series A Investment for AR Glasses, New Products to Debut in January
San Francisco based Osterhout Design Group (aka ODG) announced today that they’ve raised a significant $58 million Series A investment to accelerate production and R&D of its smart glasses products. ODG’s current flagship device is the enterprise-focused R-7 Smartglasses System which sell for $2,750 a pop. The HMD, which has a small ~37 degree field of view...
Star Wars Battlefront ‘X-Wing VR Mission’ Playable at PlayStation Experience This Weekend
The lengthily-named Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One: X-Wing VR Mission is due to launch free for all owners of the PS4 version of Star Wars Battlefront on December 6th. Developed exclusively for Sony’s PlayStation VR headset, it will be playable by attendees at this weekend’s PlayStation Experience event in California. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,...
Everything Wrong with Traditional Data Visualization and How VR is Poised to Fix It
Data visualization is one of a handful of topics that VR evangelists like to count off on their fingers as spaces that virtual reality could radically change. But how, exactly? And what’s wrong with data visualization today? This article digs into specific issues with traditional data visualization and the challenges of understanding abstract information, and how...
Cultivating Plausibility & Presence in VR with the Concept of the ‘VR Fidelity Contract’
Cultivating presence is one of the main goals for a lot of VR experiences, but our brains are like a black box of perceptual soup that makes it hard to know all of the right ingredients to achieve this. Kimberly Voll is a cognitive scientist, programmer, and VR developer who is a part of the...