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Creators Behind ‘Monument Valley’, ‘Wallace and Gromit’, and More Share VR Insights Ahead of Develop:VR Conference in London

Road to VR

The first ever Develop:VR conference debuts in London tomorrow, December 1st. Produced by the same company responsible for the popular Develop:Brighton conference, Develop:VR is drawing top VR creatives from across the UK to share insights learned from the rapidly evolving virtual reality landscape.

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Pixar, Lucasfilm and Disney Veterans Launch VR Entertainment Company Cryworks

VRScout

The new VR entertainment company launches with funding from Michael Bay’s 451 Media Group, 500 Mobile Collective and China’s WI Harper Group. We’ve seen Michael Bay hanging out at local LA virtual reality conferences over the past year, so it comes as no surprise that Bay is getting pretty serious about VR.

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The 5 most important XR-related pieces of news from Google I/O 2023

The Ghost Howls

More information about Google’s XR headset are coming “later this year” Google and Samsung will release an XR headset (Image by Google) Google, Qualcomm, and Samsung are working on an XR headset. For this reason, Google managed to take two Starline booths to its conference and make some selected journalists try it.

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Arm's Clients and Partners Signal Interest to Invest $735 Million Ahead of IPO

Anand Tech

Altogether, AMD, Apple, Cadence, Google, Intel, MediaTek, NVIDIA, Samsung, Synopsys, and TSMC have signaled an interest to purchase up to an aggregate of $735 million of Arm's American Depositary Shares (ADS), SoftBank, the owner of Arm, disclosed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference Officially Announced

VRWorld

With the conference being over a month away, NVIDIA sent out a press release announcing the conference. The conference starts on Monday, May 8th, and lasts until Thursday, May 11th. This year, NVIDIA reshuffled the conference format in a bid to ensure continuous coverage of the conference.

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Apple Joins the Impending Avatar Wars With Memoji

Road to VR

At Worldwide Developer Conference today, Apple announced a new avatar system, dubbed ‘Memoji’, the company’s next step into the world of iPhone X animated emojis mapped to a user’s facial movements. Move over Samsung AR Emoji , because Apple looks to have gotten the cutesy Pixar-vibe down pat.

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A Look at Doug Liman’s VR Scripted Series ‘Invisible’

VRScout

Just last week, the acclaimed director Alejandro Inarritu announced teaming up with Legendary and ILMxLAB to begin filming a VR short that follows a group of immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the United States. Invisible will be released soon on Samsung VR and on Jaunt’s VR app.