Road to VR

APRIL 18, 2018

Serenity, the firefly-class spaceship from cult TV show Firefly (2002) and film Serenity (2005), is now full explorable in VR. The fully-explorable Serenity supports SteamVR headsets including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 17, 2019

CIA Operative David Emerson awakens to find himself the subject of an experimental program with his body under complete remote control of the imperious General (Tony Denison),” states a story summary on the film’s official website. Agent Emerson will arrive for users of all Oculus and HTC headsets on November 22nd.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

“In 2005, Google shifted and set out to map the world […] And with the idea of searching what you see, we’ve already started to make some inroads with Google Lens and Live View and other products to use the camera as an input source and a search modality. Click To Tweet. This bodes well for first-party app dominance in AR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

The details are posted on GitHub , including assembly instructions, control software, and the code that stitches the images into seamless 360-degree content. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2018

Psychonauts In the Rhombus of Ruin takes place between the events of Psychonauts (2005) and the upcoming Psychonauts 2 due out later this year. Available On: Steam (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR), Oculus Home (Rift). Gaze-based controls, while fitting the whole psychic ability motif, can be fiddly at moments.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

When I graduated college in 2005, the technology was pretty limited and relegated to military and really high-end entertainment; it wasn’t something people could get their hands on. It was the first time we had motion controllers so it was the first time we got to interact in the virtual world in a meaningful way.

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