Recently launched on Steam, Warpaint is a turn-based strategy game that lets you customize your troops by painting them to your taste. The game supports both Mac and PC, and features VR support via SteamVR (Vive, Rift, and OSVR). Taking inspiration from board and tabletop games like hexagonal chess and Warhammer, Warpaint’s gameplay is easy...
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Advanced Brain Monitoring EEG Metrics and Experimental VR Treatments for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Advanced Brain Monitoring is a 17-year old neurotechnology company that has been able to extract a lot of really useful information from EEG data. They’ve developed specific EEG Metrics for drowsiness, inducing flow states, engagement, stress, emotion, and empathy as well as biomarkers for different types of cognitive impairment. They’ve also developed a brain-computer interface...
Obduction from Myst Creator Gets Long-Awaited Vive and Touch Support
Cyan Studios, creator of legendary PC games Myst and Riven, is officially releasing an update today ot bring its first ever virtual reality (VR) title, Obduction, to more platforms. The Myst successor originally debuted as a timed exclusive for the Oculus Rift and will now be available for the HTC Vive as well with motion controller support. In...
Blade & Soul: Table Arena Was Not The Game I Was Expecting It To Be
At first glance, I thought Blade & Soul: Table Arena was doing everything it possibly could to repel me. NCSoft’s VR debut is based on an MMO that I’m told is hugely popular over in Korea. It’s also billed as a card battler with scores of units. In my head, I was picturing a stat-filled...
Wal-Mart Zeros in On Future of VR/AR at New Silicon Valley Tech Incubator
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the big-box retail giant, is focusing on the future of VR and AR, along with other emergent technologies, with its newly unveiled tech startup incubator. According to a Bloomberg Technology report, Wal-Mart is creating the incubator to “identify changes that will reshape the retail experience, including virtual reality, autonomous vehicle and drone delivery...
Knott’s Berry Farm Installs VR Ghost Town In America’s Oldest Theme Park
Knott’s Berry Farm in Orange County, California is said to be America’s oldest theme park. The Knott family started it as a literal farm but built it up into a restaurant and then opened up a ghost town in the 1940s for entertainment that served as the basis for a decades-long expansion into a 160-acre...
Viral Quarantine Expands Upon Early Gear VR Original
Fierce Kajiu was an early believer in VR, and one of the first to release a full game for Samsung and Oculus’ Gear VR in Viral. Since then it’s brought the original game to Oculus Rift with Touch support, but it isn’t forgetting its roots. UploadVR got an exclusive early look at Viral Quarantine, the...
Kaleidoscope Puts The Best Of VR Movie Making On Tour Next Week
There’s so much work going on in VR movie making right now it can be hard to single out what’s actually worth watching. Kaledioscope has curated some of the best work out there, though, and it’s putting it on tour across the globe. The second season of Kaledioscope’s 2017 Showcase kicks off in London on March...
Sony Reveals Slate Of New PSVR Games
PlayStation VR (PSVR) is set to have a busy few months with big releases like Farpoint and Starblood Arena, but Sony is also looking ahead, today revealing a new slate of VR titles coming from Chinese developers. These games are all being created under Sony’s China Hero Project, which supports developers in the country. A...
Explore Upload LA – A 20,000 sq ft VR & AR Focused Skills Training, Coworking and Community Space
Next month, Upload will be launching a brand new 20,000 square foot skills training, coworking, and community space in Marina Del Rey, CA. The space will officially be known as Upload LA and it will serve as the premiere destination for Los Angeles-based augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) companies and students. Whether you’re just...