Pixel Ripped 1989 VR Trip (Pixel Rift) Launches Kickstarter Campaign
Pixel Ripped 1989 Launched KickStarter Campaign Some said the big 80’s is the era with the worst music and fashion, I must disagree! At least not for gaming. Gaming scene in the 80’s was vibrant! The 8-bit games, arcade, Atari, Street Fighters, SEGA, mono-color Gameboy, PAC MAN, and Nintendo were the best ever! Pixel Ripped 1989, formerly known as Pixel Rift, will bring the 80’s gaming nostalgia back! Pixel Ripped 1989 Salutes...
KAT WALK: Virtual Reality Omni-Directional Strain-Free Gaming Treadmill
KAT WALK: A Locomotion Solution For VR Gaming Kat VR, Chinese VR company founded in 2013 group of VR SUPER fans ( in their own words! ). The Chinese VR startup focus on VR development and providing solution. KAT WALK is the KAT team’s answer and solution to the issue with locomotion in VR gameplay. KAT WALK is a omni-directional VR treadmill. An input device that captures user’s body-motion and movement,...
Walking through a Pharaoh’s Tomb – Real Virtuality Enters SIGGRAPH 2015 Finalist
Real Virtuality Presents: Walking through a Pharaoh’s Tomb @ SIGGRAPH 2015 Artanim Foundation partnered with Kenzan Media Labs and released a VR project called “Real Virtuality.” Artanim Foundation was founded in 2011 by three motion capture specialist: Caecilia Charbonnier, Clementine Lo and Sylvain Chagué. It is a non-profit foundation dedicated to promote motion capture technology. Artanim is the spin-off of the foundation....
Virtual Reality Simulator 9D Virtual Cinema By LongZe
Virtual Reality Simulator 9D Virtual Cinema By LongZe A Chinese VR company LongZe has made a virtual reality gaming simulator dubbed 9D Virtual Cinema. Users can sit inside the rounded-shape cockpit with a headset and be immersed in realistic, simulated VR gaming experience. Virtual Reality Simulator LongZe is not the first to produce VR gaming simulators, numbers of virtual gaming simulators are expected to launch in the near...
DisneyWorld Closing DisneyQuest Interactive Virtual Reality Theme Park In 2016
Disney World Closing DisneyQuest Interactive Theme Park Disney World in Florida first launched its infamous DisneyQuest “ Interactive Theme Park” back in 1998, a 5 stories arcade, gaming and entertainment center. It’s virtual reality area went down virtual reality history as one of the first virtual reality entertainment center in the world! I still remembered how exciting it was when our entire family visited...
VRIDEO: 360 degree Immersive Video Platform @ Santa Monica, California
VRIDEO: Immersive 360 Video Platform @ Santa Monica Update: VRIDEO is one of the first 360 video social platform. The platform was found in 2015, and had raised around $2 million funding in early 2015 from investors. Unfortunately, VRIDEO closed its door and went out of business in November 2016. Therefore we had to delete all below broken video links below. For top collections of Youtube 360 videos, check out our 360 Video Main...
xRez Studio: A Multimedia & Virtual Reality Production Studio
xRez Studio: A Multimedia & Virtual Reality Creative Studio xRez Studio is a Santa Monica based creative imaging and visual effects production house, which explores and applies emerging techniques in virtual reality, 360 video capture & spherical panoramic work, computer graphics, and photography. Viral 360 Video Collection You Might Also Enjoy Our 360 Video Archive Check Out Our Most Popular Youtube 360 VR Video Collection...
Quasar VR Headset – Violescence By FIELD UK
Violescence – VR Art Project By FIELD UK Virtual reality is being adopted by artists as a new medium of creative and artistic expression. Violescence is creative project, which is an extension and continuation of an ongoing exploration of multimedia. FIELD Studio Explores Immersive Virtual Reality As New Medium FIELD Studio explores immersive virtual reality experiences connected to sculpture, photography, and video...
Tesla Suit: Feel Virtual Reality With Your Body
Tesla Suit Provides Fully Immersive Virtual Reality Body Experience Tesla Suit enables users to interact with virtual environment and actually “feeling” it. With sensors and haptic feedback abilities, Tesla Studios, a Scotland based VR startup behind the he project is aiming to provide a realistic VR experience! Tesla Suit prototype is designed and built with a full array of haptic feedback sensors. The main component of the...
HTC Vive World Tour @ San Diego Comic-Con July 9-12
HTC Vive World Tour Kickoff @ San Diego Comic-Con July 9-12 HTC announced this week they will begin the HTC Vive World Tour, kicking off with a tour across the United States. First stop of the U.S. tour is the San Diego Comic-Con from July 9-12. The time schedule is from 10am-8pm. The HTC tour bus will be parked on: 530 Island Ave and 6th street @ Downtown San Diego. In 2015, HTC is reported a severe net loss of $260...
VideoStitch Received 2.25 Million Funding From Alven Captial
French 360 Video Specialist: VideoStitch Received 2.25 Million French startup VideoStitch just received $2.25 million funding from Alven Capital. The company is capable of rendering 360 video feeds in real-time and on-demand. According to Techcrunch, VideoStitch is able to use GoPros attached to computer to edit and output 360 degree, 3D fully immersive video that can be viewed on Oculus Rift headset. Below is a 360 degree video...
Guided Meditation & Ramble VR By Cubicle Ninjas
Guided Meditation & Ramble By Cubicle Ninjas Virtual Reality Reporter team visited Cubicle Ninjas booth @ E3 and asked Vice President of Marketing, Suzanne Manella about Cubicle Ninjas’ vision when creating unique VR experiences: “When we share our apps people are really excited to see something different in virtual reality. Most people think there are only VR games, but don’t realize you can use VR to...
Landmark Entertainment Building Virtual Reality Theme Park L.I.V.E. Centre
Landmark Entertainment Building Interactive Virtual Reality Experience: L.I.V.E. Centre Landmark Entertainment Group, founded in 1980, is an award winning design and production company based in Los Angeles. Landmark Entertainment had designed attractions such as Universal’s Kongfrontation, Terminator 2 3D, Jurassic Park: The Ride, Star Trek, The Amazing Adventures of Spiderman 5D and King Kong. L.I.V.E. Centre: Multimedia &...
Cerevrum Offers 3D VR Cognitive Learning Experience
Cerevrum Offers Learning While Playing 3D VR Experience Cerevrum is a VR startup founded in April 2015 by a team of neuroscientists and experienced game developers. Cerevrum makes unique VR games, games that are focusing on improving user’s cognitive ability and intelligence, while having fun! Learning without having fun was exactly why I struggled throughout my High School and College years… But I did extremely well in...
Apple Acquired Augmented Reality Startup Metaio
Apple Acquires German AR Startup Metaio Apple’s enters augmented reality by acquiring Metaio. A German based AR startup that we introduced back in April, who has made a augmented reality app for Italian auto maker Ferrari. Below is the promo video: Metaio has made several augment reality apps, here are two recommended by Business Insider: Days before Apple made the acquisition, there were rumors that...
Castrol Edge Presents Virtual Drift
Castrol Edge: Virtual Drifting With Titanium Strong VR Helmet Castrol Edge Titanium Strong “Virtual Drift” is a demo to showcase its performance enhancing engine oil “Titanium Strong.” According to Engadget, technologists Adam Amaral and Glenn Snyder were hired in November 2014 by Castrol Edge to build a VR project to show off Castrol Edge Titanium Strong Oil! The video was directed by director Ben Conrad from Logan Creative....
Lenovo VR Headset Debuted @ Lenovo Tech World
Lenovo Enters Virtual Reality Industry With VR Headset Founded in 1984, Lenovo is a Beijing based tech company, the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer. Lenovo’s product ranges from smartphone, tablets, laptop and pc. Last week, on May 28, at Lenovo Tech World in Beijing, Lenovo showcased its own virtual reality headset. How Lenvono VR Headset Works? According to Tom’s Guide, the VR headset is mostly...
Saturday Night Live Youtube 360 Video For Your Weekend
Saturday Night Live In 360 Degree Youtube Video I basically grew up watching Saturday Night Live ( SNL ) religiously. Every Saturday I will sit in front of TV and wait for it to start! Saturday Night Live is an institution, as the show jump started so many Hollywood actors and actresses’ career. VR Camera Comparison Guide & Report Now, we can enjoy Saturday Night Live in virtual 360 videos and on Google...
Avicii – Waiting For Love 360 Youtube Video
DJ Avicii – Waiting For Love 360 Degree Youtube Video Check out DJ / Producer Avicii’s new 360 Youtube video ” Waiting For Love ” featuring some pop lock freestyle dancers, looking forward to see Avicii at EDC Vegas in June 2015! For Youtube 360 video playback instructions, please visit this 360 VR video collection. Simple Guide on How To Watch and Interact W/ YouTube 360 Degree Video From computer YouTube...
Google Expedition & 2015 Cardboard Spec Update
Google Expedition & 2015 Cardboard Spec Change On Thursday at Google I/O, Clay Bavor, the creator of Google Cardboard, shared an exciting new project called “Expedition” and new spec for Google Cardboard. Expedition is a new Google Education initiates that provides Google Cardboard to school children around the global. The children will be led by a teach with a tablet controlling the travel expedition that shows...
Google Jump 360° Video Camera Rig With 16 GoPros
GoPro Made 16 Camera Rig for Google Jump Google Jump, a new Google platform was announced at Google I/O on Thursday, May 29. The creator of Google Cardboard and Vice President of Product Management of Google, Clay Bavor introduced Google Jump VR camera rig in his keynote presentation. Google Jump is a new platform that enables anyone to capture the world in virtual reality videos, videos that is fully immersive, videos...
Hot Pockets x Virtual Reality ???
Hot Pockets VR Commercial When I was in college two things saved my life and from severe starvation, as I was always broke, because I spent all my money collecting 12 inch vinyls… They were Jack in the Box dollar menu and Hot Pockets! Thank you Hot Pockets, I still love you! Hot Pockets is one of the first microwave food / snack company that’s diggin’ the VR technology and headsets! Hot Pockets will keep all...
Retinad: Virtual Reality Advertising & Analytic Platform
Retinad is building the first virtual reality advertising and analytic platform that will enable indie and established VR game and app developers to monetize through virtual advertisement within the virtual environment. Retinad platform also provides a powerful heatmap analytic to track user’s browsing, navigation, purchasing behavior, and results. VR advertisers can track, monitor and analyze the analytic data...
Ramble VR Shows You The World’s Great Cities In Bite Size
Ramble VR: Guided Virtual Tourism In Bite Size Ramble VR is an Oculus Mobile Jam submission by the Cubicle Ninjas, a virtual tour guide of cities around the world in “bite sizes!” The files can be downloaded here. As an Oculus Mobile Jam submission, Ramble’s demo is made for Venice, namely, the “City of Masks” because of its historical annual carnival celebration, which dated back from the year of 1162. The idea is to...
The Simpsons & Homer In Virtual Reality
The Simpsons & Homer In Virtual Reality This is a fun little Simpsons Game made by game developer Myles Johnston. This game is so simple and requires no explanation. Cute little game just makes us smile!...
Project Elysium Reunites Users With Dead Love Ones
Project Elysium: Meet Your Dead Family or Friends Inside Virtual World Project Elysium is one of the game submission from the Oculus Mobile Jam, created by the Australian game developer duo Steve Koutsouliotas and Nick Stavrou, they are both from game developing studio Paranormal Games. The idea of game derived from the sorrow and grief of both Steve and Nick’s father’s passing, it allows users to reunite and...
Dior Eyes: First High Fashion VR Headset
Dior Eyes: Virtual Reality Headset For Fashionistas Dior Eyes is the world’s first ever VR headset made by a fashion house. The Raf Simons ( Mr. Simons’ own label was one of my all time favorite! ) led French fashion house, Dior, is introducing a stylish and chic high fashion VR headset with a huge and bold DIOR logo in the front that will have the ladies screaming! Dior Eyes headset is designed, 3D printed,...
VisiSonics: Audio Solution For Virtual Reality Application
VisiSonics RealSpace: Virtual Reality Gaming & Entertainment Audio Solution VisiSonics is a Maryland based startup that specializes in 3D & virtual reality sound engineering and VR camera system. VisiSonics’s technology is licensed to Oculus Crescent Bay, and judging from Crescent Bay demo experience from CES and SVVR 2015, the 3D audio experience was superb! VisiSonics’s RealSpace tools and equipment is the most...
High Fidelity: A Social Metaverse For The Masses
High Fidelity: A Virtual Reality Social Metaverse From The Creator Of Second Life High Fidelity, a San Francisco, California based startup, founded in 2013 by Philip Rosedale who is the creator of the infamous virtual community “Second Life.” High Fidelity founder Philip Rosedale is a dreamer that never stop dreaming, believing and most importantly, trying! In 1999, Philip Rosedale quit his job as the chief technology...
Immersive Media Forms IM360 With Digital Domain Holdings Limited
IM360: New Join Venture to Create Immersive 360 Degree Videos Immersive Media is one of the world’s premier immersive and interactive 360 degree video producer, specializes in patented 360 degree video capturing, production, rendering, playback, real-time live streaming and distribution for entertainment and branding. VR Camera Comparison Guide & Report Immersive Media had introduced a full digital camera set up way back in...