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.
In an update to the company’s blog today, HTC has announced that the Vive VR headset for Valve’s SteamVR platform will be delayed until April 2016.
Responding to criticisms about the potential for Oculus Rift game exclusivity, Oculus founder Palmer Luckey reaffirms that the company is interested in working with other hardware vendors through the Oculus platform.
The Night Café is an amazingly surreal immersive VR experience of walking through a space that’s inspired by a painting by Vincent van Gogh. I speak with Mac Cauley about the inspiration behind the experience, which won both the Platinum and Community Choice awards in the experience category for the Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015.
Sundance’s New Frontier program, the yearly showcase supported by the Sundance Institute for works in new media, is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2016. Over 30 virtual reality installations will be present within New Frontier at the Sundance Film Festival.
At the end of November, around 60 people gathered at the offices of Rothenberg Ventures in downtown San Francisco to celebrate the release of VR pioneer Tony Parisi’s new book Learning Virtual Reality. For the uninitiated, Tony is recognized as one of the creators of Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML), an HTML extension from the ’90s for representing three dimensional interactive vector graphics in a web browser.
Ixian Gate is a beautiful, infectiously weird VR demo created by Jess Johnson, a New Zealand-born artist based in Melbourne. Johnson takes a measure of inspiration from Frank Herbert’s iconic sci-fi tome Dune (1965) to produce an otherworldly experience that is an enigmatic trip through tessellating shapes and bodies that is sure to leave you questioning reality.
Still think virtual reality is a fad? The latest data suggests over $136M was raised by VR startups in the month of November 2015 alone. It appears that VR is quickly leaving the realm of odd curiosity and is now forming a foundation and financial base for a legitimate standalone VR industry.
Amidst ongoing development of Valve’s SteamVR platform, a recent update has brought support for the latest version of the Oculus Rift SDK and Runtime.
Oculus’ Head of Display Technology is set to talk at CES on the subject of how the Oculus Rift VR Headset, due for launch in Q1 2016, might just be the “The Family Friend” when it comes to entertaining your kids.
