The industry is finding new uses for VR every day, but the potential for architecture and design apps has always been obvious. TrueScale shows you why. This new experience from Immersion, set to launch soon on both Viveport and Steam with HTC Vive support, is a compelling mix of interior design and just a little...
VR music videos aren’t anything new, but when an artist known for prolific, stylish animated clips like Gorillaz releases one, we pay attention. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s experimental band of strangers is finally back after a long hiatus, and it’s got a new album coming out on April 28th. One of the first tracks...
Today’s most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not only annoying, it’s an immersion detractor. The demand for a solution to this issue has spurred...
Today, at CEBIT 2017, Upload and VR Base are announcing a partnership that will expand the idea of dedicated VR/AR real estate spaces to a global level. According to a joint release from both companies: “Upload and VRBase’s collaboration is the inevitable product of the global AR/VR ecosystem. Working from its locations in Amsterdam, Berlin and...
When I was a young kid and saw Apollo 13 for the first time — an incredible film with great performances by Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and more — it actually gave me an irrational fear. I started to contemplate what it would be like to be stuck in space, with no gravity, floating in...
Hackney House London is the new venue for the return of the London VR Developer Sessions in partnership with the upcoming Virtual Reality Show. The tri-monthly event presents a forum for immersive content developers to meet, share, collaborate and showcase their work. Attend the London VR Developer Meetup The first sessions will take place on...
HTC’s upcoming Vive Tracker has literally thousands of potential applications for VR, but we can also see how it might be useful outside of the tech. If you’re looking for a cheap motion capture system, though, you’ll still need to buy the headset itself. HTC itself recently confirmed this over on the Viveport forums. In...
Today, Oculus is announcing the release of the latest software patch for its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Update 1.13 is going live today and will offer further tracking fixes and the addition of a few new features. Here is the complete list of the chances update 1.13 is bringing, according to a Community Forum post:...
The age of consumer grade video game console-powered virtual reality is finally here with the PlayStation VR (PSVR). Sony’s headset isn’t as powerful as the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, or as portable as the Samsung Gear VR or Google Daydream View, and it doesn’t really offer fully-featured roomscale tracking, but it brings VR into the living...
Soft launches are when companies release a new product in a limited fashion, perhaps only in one part of the world. It allows them to prod at potential markets, gauging interest. It’s not a practice you’d expect to see utilized with something as big as the PlayStation brand, but Sony’s PlayStation VR (PSVR) seems to...
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