Getting your hands on the new Samsung Gear VR hasn’t been easy task due to spotty availability. But if you’re in Western Europe or the United States, you still may be able to grab one in time for the holidays.
Convrge, the social VR platform known for hosting some of the first large-scale social meetups in virtual reality, has announced signups for a Gear VR beta, which will allow Samsung Gear VR users to mingle and also watch YouTube videos with Oculus Rift DK2 owners.
Presence Capital today announced they’ve raised a $10 million fund to invest in VR/AR companies through the new VC firm. Among other heads of the fund is HTC’s Phil Chen, the purported “founder” of the HTC Vive project at HTC.
Presence Capital is a new early-stage venture capital firm that’s focused on funding virtual reality and augmented reality startups. I had the chance to interview one of the co-founders Amitt Mahajan at the VRX Conference about this new fund and how he plans on applying the lessons he learned from the causal, social & mobile gaming market to VR.
Following the HTC Vive delay which pushed the headset just into Q2 2016, eyes turn to Oculus to see if they can deliver on the Rift’s Q1 2016 release date window.
We now know that EVE:Valkyrie will be packed-in with every retail Oculus Rift once that VR headset launches in Q1 2016. So what can you expect from the game? We’ve got some new gameplay of the latest pre-alpha in action to help answer that question.
CCP Games have announced that their made-for-VR online, multi-player space shooter EVE: Valkyrie, will ship free with every consumer Oculus Rift VR headset at launch, some time in Q1 2016.
Shauna Heller worked as a developer relations specialist focusing on non-gaming and non-entertainment experiences at Oculus for a year and a half before leaving to start her consultancy Clay Park VR. She’s had a lot of exposure to the leading non-gaming VR experiences and understands what the how the full landscape of VR is shaping up and what the early adopters of VR are doing. I had a chance to catch up with Shauna at the VRX conference to get more insights for how VR is going to go beyond this initial push of gaming and entertainment.
Flickr has today released their Gear VR app that lets you browse through some its best user-generated 360 photos—all at an impressively high quality and delivered at a speed that’s quicker than you can say ‘Revontulikaari’ (that’s ‘Northern Lights Arc’ in Finnish).
Today we’re proud to announce that Road to VR has been selected as the official partner of VRDC 2016, the VR-centric event complementing the forthcoming GDC 2016.
Flickr, the Yahoo-owned image and video hosting website, has today released a Samsung Gear VR app that lets you view the top rated 360-degree photos from the platform’s global userbase.
At VRDC 2016, the VR conference counterpart to GDC, representatives from Oculus Story Studio and HBO will explore their approaches to immersive storytelling.
Brian Blau is the research director in the personal technologies group at Gartner specializing in mobile apps and video game software in the consumer domain. He’s also been analyzing the market for virtual and augmented reality for the past five years, but has been involved in VR since the 1980s. Gartner is a technology advisory service and so they’re in the business of predicting the future. A lot of their predictions and reports are not released to public, but Brian was able to hint at some previously made predictions as well as compare their analysis with some of the other analysts who have been estimating the overall market size for virtual and augmented reality.
HTC today announced that it will be launching the “second generation” of the HTC Vive Developer Kit at CES 2016 in January.
