For the tech, film, and gaming exhibits SXSW, VR and 360-degree media will be leaving a major imprint. From promotional work for different brands to VR roller coasters, you’ll be hard pressed not to run into some sort of immersive content. Graphics chip giant AMD will be represented in many of the different sessions taking...
“We just want to make weird cartoon shit,” Chris Prynoski says to me in the VR office of Titmouse’s LA Studio. “We want to stay as far away from reality as possible.” Having demoed his latest creation, I don’t doubt him for a second. Titmouse started out as an online T-shirt company in the early...
You’d think if a division of Sony was making a VR experience they’d be using the company’s own headset, PlayStation VR (PSVR). It’s surprising to learn, then, Sony Music Entertainment is working with a rival headset, the HTC Vive. The Japanese division of Sony Music is at the 2017 South By South West (SXSW) festival...
Back at GDC 2017 at the start of this month Unity gave us a brief update on Editor VR, its new platform for developing 3D content within headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The company showcased some of the new tools that were supporting the platform, including Scene Fusion from KinematicSoup Technologies This...
Battlezone [Review: 8/10] is one of a handful of PlayStation VR (PSVR) titles celebrating a five month anniversary this March as the headset and its launch games near the half-year mark. In recognition of this, developer Rebellion is dumping a lot of free new content on you today. Headlining this update are two new difficulty modes...
Usually when we talk about VR startups and investment it’s unsurprisingly based around the Silicon Valley area. This year’s VR World Congress (VRWC) event wants to bring some of that money to Europe, however. VRWC is a three-day event hosted in the UK city of Bristol. The show is set to gather a host of...
Oculus has provided the ‘Touch Accessory Guidelines 1.0’ for download, which contains 3D CAD files of the Touch VR controller. This data can be used to help designers and manufacturers create new accessories that integrate with the Touch hardware. Available for download on the Oculus developer website, the Touch Accessory Guidelines 1.0 include technical drawings and...
Greenlight Insights and Road to VR are teaming up once again to co-author a comprehensive report on the VR industry which will provide global forecasts, analysis, and best practices. The Virtual Reality Industry Report: Spring 2017 launches April 4th, pre-order today to save 40% off the list price. Looking ahead is tricky business. Predicting what might occur...
The biggest problem with a lot of fantasy roleplaying games (RPGs) is that they seem to struggle to stand out. Most of them all have bow and arrow-wielding archers, sword and shield carrying warriors, magic channeling wizards, and clerics, but few of them find interesting ways to make those classes and archetypes fun again. That’s...
I’ve never had as pleasantly a distracted interview as when I spoke to Ru Weerasuriya last week. As I spoke with the Ready At Dawn founder at an Oculus event in London, he kept pausing to glance over at someone playing the studio’s debut VR game, Lone Echo, either of his own choosing or when...
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