Minecraft VR was released on the Gear VR this week, and it completes the long journey of making one of John Carmack's dreams come true. If you haven't watched John's Oculus Connect 2 keynote yet, then now is a good time to go back and check it out...
One of the most immersive and memorable experiences that I tried at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality Conference yesterday was TheWave. Just as TiltBrush is able to unlock your creative expression through 3D drawing, TheWave has the potential to...
Redirected walking is a concept within VR that tricks a user into walking into circles, but gives them visual feedback that they're walking in a straight line. We tend to trust our visual input over our other senses, and so redirected touch using...
Is VR on the open web going to provide a good enough experience as to be a viable distribution platform for certain VR content? That's the big question that people have been asking for the past couple of years, and there's been a lot of big steps...
Kevin Cornish is a LA-based VR filmmaker who teamed up with AMD to do some interactive narrative experiments using gazed-based content in Believe VR. Depending on which character you look at different moments will triggered up to 32 different...
Liv Erikson was able to to live out one of her dreams when she stepped into the Star Wars universe to battle against a lightsaber training Remote within Sixense's VR demo. This helped her discover that she has a passion for immersive technologies...
Tom Furness has been working in virtual reality longer than anyone else on the planet, and he's starting a new phase of his legendary career. He's starting to build a coalition of content creators and financial backers through the Virtual World...
It's not every day that someone gains an entirely new sense, but James Blaha did just that. He created a virtual reality vision therapy experience that essentially cured his lazy eye and enabled him to see in 3D for the first time in his life. When...
At GDC this year, Epic Games had a VR Lounge where they were showing off 10 different VR experiences that used the Unreal Engine. One of those experiences was Create VR's The Walk VR Experience, where you can walk across a tightrope between the two...
Nine different New Revolution Virtual Reality Coasters open to the general public at Six Flags theme parks around the country this Thursday, April 21st. A couple of roller coaster veterans Six Flags who had seen every roller coaster imaginable and...
I was invited to cover the VR Intelligence Conference that debuted in San Francisco on November 9-10, 2015. It was a smaller but very focused gathering of decision-makers from a wide range of different industries, and they're holding a European VR...
Milica Zec grew up in war-torn Serbia, but this was a part of her life that she preferred to just forget about and leave behind. After telling screenwriter Lizzie Donahue her story, she was encouraged to tell her story in a short film. Milica...
One of my favorite VR games is the Kokoromi Collective's SUPERHYPERCUBE, which is a very stylized 3D Tetris game with amazing sound design. It's a VR experience that really gives your brain a stimulating spatial memory workout. I first had a chance...
At GDC this year, I had a chance to talk with Valve developer Jeremy Selan and tracking engineer Ben Jackson about the evolution of room-scale tracking technologies, as well as some of the oral history stories that include some of their favorite...
Rob Morgan is the writer of The Assembly, and he spoke last year at GDC about narrative design in VR and the importance of accurate body language in NPCs to maintain a sense of presence. He returned to GDC this year to talk about some of his lessons...
Katie Goode is the Creative Director of Triangular Pixels, which has developed Smash Hit Plunder for the Gear VR and Unseen Diplomacy for the Vive. Unseen Diplomacy is a room-scale experience that has people crawling through tunnels as a spy, but...
VR Unicorns is a Copenhagen-based development collective that developed #SelfieTennis. They were working on Julie Heyde's RagnarökVR until they stated experimenting with room-scale sports experiences.Playing tennis against yourself in VR was the...
VR has the capability to take us into completely new realms, and experimental artist Isaac 'Cabbibo' Cohen has been creating some of the most surreal and transportive experiences that I've seen. I had a chance to try out a number of Cabbibo's Vive...
Valve's Chet Faliszek has been a key virtual reality evangelist & developer relations liaison over the past couple of years for the HTC Vive, and I had a chance to sit down with him at GDC as they were showing off many of their launch titles. Chet...
HoloLens development kits started shipping last week following Microsoft's Build conference and there were also a number of NDAs that were lifted, which allowed some companies to start talking about their HoloLens projects for the first time. One of...
Virtual Reality has the power to transport you to anywhere in the world, and NextVR has been one of the leaders of giving you a front row seat to live sporting events including hockey, boxing, NASCAR, basketball, soccer, and golf. NextVR recently...
Timoni West is a principle designer at Unity Labs, and she's been working on creating tools within Unity to be able to create VR within VR. I first talked with Timoni in October about these content creation tools, and these were revealed to the VR...