Failed to get tickets to Coldplay’s most recent headlining tour? Then you might want to pick up a Gear VR soon. Samsung today announced a partnership with Live Nation to live stream the band’s upcoming show at Chicago’s Soldier Field venue inside VR. Gear VR owners in more than 50 countries will be able to...
Happy day for Rez (2001) fans—with no prior announcement, the modern remake, Rez Infinite (2016), launches today on PC with optional support for both the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. In addition to a 20% launch discount which prices the game at $20 for the first two weeks, players will also nab the Digital Deluxe...
You find yourself underground, trapped in a small room. You hear the President’s voice over the intercom. In a comical Austrian accent, he informs you that you’re actually in a broken space elevator destined for a lunar base, and it’s your job to fix it. This is the premise behind ROCCAT Games’ aptly-titled Elevator to...
The first series of StartUp may not have been warmly received, but its creators are hoping to kick the second season off with a bang with a new experience for Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR). StartUp is an online show airing on Crackle, Sony’s free to use streaming service. It stars Martin Freeman and Ron Pearlman...
If Tron 3 were to ever happen, its star would want to see it as a virtual reality movie. When talking about the media that’s influenced the current VR landscape, there are a handful of names that can’t go unmentioned. Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One is one such source, but it’s impossible not to acknowledge...
Google’s team at Daydream Labs have been prototyping ways of animating objects and characters in Blocks, the company’s recently released VR modelling tool. In a recent entry on the Google Blog, senior UX engineer Logan Olson describes how it could give users the power to “create expressive animations without needing to learn complex animation software.”...
Now that the latest release of Firefox supports WebVR on the Vive and Rift by default, you may be wondering what you can do with it. Here’s three examples worth checking out. It’s still early days for WebVR; the capabilities, development tools, and what it’s all best used for is still rapidly changing and evolving....
A eye-catching VR demonstration at SIGGRAPH last week displayed the very latest capabilities in human facial capture. Mike Seymour from fxguide donned a facial capture rig and communicated with a series of interview subjects over the course of the computer graphics conference. Seymour’s visage was transferred onto an avatar in real-time and a highly...
We liked Oculus Studio’s wild-west themed shooting gallery Dead and Buried when we reviewed it late last year. The newly-released Summer of Bullets update doesn’t re-invent the game, but it does change up a few modes and add two options to share your best gun-slinging moments with your friends. First up is 360-degree capture support...
Virtual reality consultancy and testing firm Fishbowl has told UploadVR they have expanded their services to include augmented reality testing. The company produced their first AR usability test with INKHUNTER, an application that allows users to see how a tattoo might look on their body before actually putting ink to skin. Describing the reason behind...
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