Going to the bank is hell. You wait in line, the tellers try to upsell you, and the giant mechanical spiders won’t stop skittering out of their inter-dimensional portal. The citizens of Northern California seem unaware their home is under attack in a new video showcasing the AR game Vortex-Ball by Sturfee. Unlike other demos...
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Watch Jimmy Fallon And Brie Larson Play VR Pictionary With Tilt Brush
Jimmy Fallon is getting good comedic mileage out of Pictionary, the party game of choice for people with too much dignity to play charades. Last night, for the fourth time in seven months, Fallon played a round of VR Pictionary with his celebrity guests. Fallon teamed up with Brie Larson of Glass Castle, while Tariq...
Rez Infinite Releases on Steam, Surprising Everyone
Image Copyright Enhance Games, Used under Fair Use Doctrine One of the best games currently available for VR, Enhance Games’ Rez Infinite has released on Steam and the Oculus store with no pre-release warning or hype, to the delight and surprise of Rift and Vive users on PC. The game is currently available for £15.99...
Report: PlayStation 4 Firmware 5.0 Adds VR Streaming Notifications
An early leak of the release notes for PlayStation 4 firmware 5.0 indicates that Twitch streaming at 1080p and 60 frames-per-second is coming to Sony’s high-end console, the PlayStation 4 Pro. Until this point, streamers were limited by framerate and resolution when showcasing VR titles. The improvements will allow Twitch viewers to see more accurate...
Lone Echo Post Mortem, Rift SDK Updates And More Sessions Set For Oculus Connect 4
Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away; the developer conference returns to the San Jose convention center on October 11th – 12th. We’re expecting to see what’s new with the company during a busy keynote speech but, until then, an initial list of sessions and workshops has been revealed for the two-day event....
Oculus to Talk “Breakthroughs in Spatial Audio Technologies” at Connect Conference
Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK. See Also: NVIDIA Shows How Physically-based Audio Can Greatly Enhance VR Immersion Spatial audio is...
NFL Refs Using STRIVR’s VR Training Platform to Prepare for New Season
The NFL continues to maintain its strong relationship with VR technology, now employing the STRIVIR platform to train some officials. According to a report by SportTechie, the virtual reality training company has been working with the NFL’s Officiating Development Programs for the past nine months, presenting game scenarios in a VR headset from a referee’s...
HTC Vive Reveals Extremely Limited Edition Front Defense Bundle With Themed Covers For Australia
HTC Vive is getting a brand new game bundled with every unit sold… at least it is in Australia. Vive Studios’ Front Defense, a World War II- era first-person shooter developed by Fantahorn Game Studio, will be included with every unit sold on the Australian Vive website until August 24th. Not only that, but the...
Here Be Dragons Gets $10 Million Investment
You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you’ve probably heard of some of the projects they’ve worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A round of funding. The investment was led by Discovery Communications. Here Be Dragons has been creating...
Avatar Creation with Morph3D & Social VR Anecdotes from Chris Madsen
Custom avatars in social VR add a lot of fidelity of identity expression and creative flair in applications like VRChat or High Fidelity. Morph3D is a custom avatar solution that offers a number of free avatars within VRChat, but they also have a custom tool where you can customize your own virtual avatar. I had...