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First Look Inside ‘The Void’ Ghostbusters: Dimensions, Opens July 1st

Road to VR

Installed at Madame Tussauds New York City , the new experience is a tie in with the forthcoming Ghostbusters franchise movie reboot and is subtitled ‘ Dimensions ‘ Ghostbusters: Dimensions will give players the chance to strap a virtual proton pack to their backs and track a supernatural manifestation through a New York apartment block.

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Oculus and Kaleidoscope Announce DevLab VR Art Incubator

VRScout

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Mike Brett. Milica Zec. Tyler Hurd.

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VR Animator Tyler Hurd on Igniting Your Career with a ‘Just Start’ Mentality

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. “My Months later, Tyler finally got his hands on an Oculus DK2 and saw his characters in VR.

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2018 Highlights: Award-winning VR gloves, global customers, and a growing team

HaptX

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date.

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

WWDC by Apple Date: June 5-9, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Download the WWDC app from the App Store Oculus Connect Date: October 11-12, 2017 Venue: McEnery Convention Center, San Jose, CA, USA Oculus Connect is an annual virtual reality developer conference hosted by Oculus from Facebook.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.30): Niantic launches VPS, Pico launches Neo 3 Link, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

VPS won’t be available worldwide, though: the company is enabling its VPS system in select cities ?—?San San Francisco, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle?—?for By the end of the year, the cities will hopefully be around 100. Other news. Snap shares lose -30% of its stock value.

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Building a Better 360 Camera from Consumer to Pro, with Insta360’s Michael Shabun

XR for Business Podcast

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe. You see Google. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard.