Kevin Williams reports from IAAPA 2015, an Amusement Park expo featuring upcoming rides and attractions coming to theme parks. He takes a closer look at the ever growing presence of VR at the show and its importance to the out of home entertainment sector.
Here’s a novel twist on the same old commercial imagery this Christmas as Coca Cola rolls out a new VR promotion in Poland. Developers Lemon & Orange have taken the now familiar Christmas truck convoy and built a VR roller coaster experience where you adopt the role of Santa, soaring through the skies on his sleigh pulled by (just the two) Reindeer.
With the announcement of Rock Band VR comes an interesting question: how will the guitar be tracked? One method—as seen in the announcement promo video—may be to stick an Oculus Touch controller to the end.
At The Game Awards 2015, Oculus has announced Rock Band VR, a new title in partnership with Rock Band creator Harmonix.
Earlier this week it was announced that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey would take to the stage at The Game Awards 2015 to make a “special announcement.” If you’d like to tune in to the show live, you can catch the stream right here starting at 9PM ET.
Google today released Cardboard Camera, a Google Cardboard-compatible app that let’s take 3D panoramic photos with your smartphone and then view them in a VR smartphone adapter.
Ushering in the era of immersive entertainment, The VR Report introduces a unique new talk show format featuring an immersive stereographic 360-degree virtual reality experience. Viewers get to sit down face-to-face in a virtual reality environment with a variety of luminaries and pioneers in the rapidly growing VR industry. Hosted by David Gene Oh who works in VR leading developer relations at Leap Motion. The show is an open forum catered towards the VR community, both enthusiast and the uninitiated.
On the hunt for ‘the Pixar of VR’ a cast of big names have joined for a $6 million series A investment in virtual reality animation studio Baobab.
Sophia Dominguez is going all in with virtual reality, and she talks her journey of making virtual reality a career. She’s the author of the weekly AllThingsVR newsletter, and she has been working as the entrepreneur in residence at the Rothenberg Ventures River Program. She was inspired by M. T. Anderson’s Feed inspired her to get into technology in order prevent a sci-fi dystopian future, and eventually traveled to a number of countries showing people Google Glass for the first time in order to counter the negative press it had been receiving. Sophia is really interested in social VR and she shares her experience of the Toybox demo from Oculus Connect 2 as well as her vision for her own social video viewing experiences using WebVR. Sophia has a lot of passion for the potentials of these immersive technologies, and is making a lot of strategic moves to be involved with VR for a very long time.
Celebrating today’s release of the Star Wars: Jakku Spy virtual reality experience, Verizon is handing out limited edition Cardboard viewers, and we must admit, they’re pretty stellar.
With today’s launch of the official Star Wars app on Android and iOS comes the first look at the Jakku Spy virtual reality experience created by the studio behind the Star Wars films.
Sunny Dhillon is a principal and co-founder of Signia Venture Partners as well as a lifelong gamer. Signia has been an investor in mobile games, and so he knows what to look for in terms of a solid team and distinct art style that resonates with gamers. Signia was one of the 16 investors who invested $13.5M into 8i, a 3D volumetric capture startup, and Sunny says that he’s looking for other content creation tools to invest in.
At 9.3 pounds, Nokia’s Ozo VR camera is impressively compact. Not only can the device be handheld if need be, but it can also take to the skies as a drone payload. We’ve got the first look at Ozo’s take-off.
Gear VR owners have been chomping at the bit for a full-featured Internet browser since last year’s initial launch of the first Innovator Edition headset, and now they have it, YouTube videos and all.
