IMAX and Cineplex Expand Partnership, Adding Two Auditoriums and IMAX VR Centre in Canada
IMAX and Cineplex Expand Partnership, Adding Two Auditoriums and IMAX VR Centre in Canada Check out Zero Latency VR Gaming Centre & The Void VR Gaming IMAX Corporation (NYSE: IMAX) and Cineplex (TSX: CGX) today announced an agreement that will see the installation of two new IMAX auditoriums as well as the installation of a new IMAX VR Centre. An IMAX® auditorium will be added at Cineplex Odeon Eglinton Town Centre Cinemas in...
Innovative Theme Parks Pursue the Virtual Frontier
Innovative Theme Parks Pursue the Virtual Frontier The future is now as virtual reality has finally reached the quality and usability levels imagined by Philip Dick in his famous sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, published in 1968. Countless books and movies have portrayed virtual reality as the ultimate platform for visualization, communication, and entertainment. Hindered by timely technological limits, virtual...
Saebo Announces FDA Clearance of SaeboVR – World’s First Virtual ADL Rehabilitation System
Saebo Announces FDA Clearance of SaeboVR – World’s First Virtual ADL Rehabilitation System Saebo, Inc. announced on Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared SaeboVR, a virtual ADL (activities of daily living) rehabilitation system designed to engage neurological clients in both physical and cognitive challenges involving simulated functional tasks. This first-of-its-kind software system is...
VRTO — CANADA’S LARGEST VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY CONVENTION — ANNOUNCES UPDATED LINEUP OF EXCLUSIVES AND SUPER SESSIONS
VRTO — CANADA’S LARGEST VIRTUAL & AUGMENTED REALITY CONVENTION — ANNOUNCES UPDATED LINEUP OF EXCLUSIVES AND SUPER SESSIONS THE VOID, AMD, IMAX, and TWO BIT CIRCUS headline groundbreaking panel revealing their vision for a future with Out-of-Home VR as public entertainment VRTO (Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo), Canada’s largest virtual, augmented and mixed reality convention — and the largest on North...
Vision Summit 2017 Keynote Recap: Announcements from Microsoft, Google, Vuforia and more!
Vision Summit 2017 Keynote Recap: Announcements from Microsoft, Google, Vuforia and more! We’ve officially kicked off our second North American Vision VR/AR Summit in Los Angeles. Over the next two days, more than 1,200 founders, artists, programmers, business leaders, publishers, and developers will gather for learning, discussion, and hands-on exploration of what’s new and next in XR. Be sure to follow @unity3d and official hashtag...
VR NOW Con & VR NOW Award All Set to Begin in Three Days
VR NOW Con & VR NOW Award All Set to Begin in Three Days Berlin/Potsdam, 14 November, 2016. Everyone’s talking about Virtual Reality: as a technology, an engine for growth and the economy, a new medium that will change everything, and as „the next big thing“. There’s a lot of hype. But what future prospects, applications and potential are likely to exist with Virtual Reality? These questions will be discussed by...
VR NOW Award: The Nominees – VR NOW Con: The Programme
It’s all about virtual and other realities on November 16 VR NOW – The Tech Biz Art Conference: exciting programme with around 30 international speakers 1st VR Now Awards 2016: eight nominated projects, four categories Berlin/Potsdam, November 8, 2016. The nominees of the 1st VR Now Awards and the programme of the international virtual reality conference VR NOW – The Tech Biz Art Conference were announced during today’s...
VR NOW – The Tech Biz Art Conference @ Berlin, Germany
VR NOW – The Tech Biz Art Conference 2016 The first stand-alone business and development conference & award exclusively dedicated to VR in Germany connects essential aspects with basal questions. The VR NOW Awards 2016 celebrate outstanding technical, business, and artistic achievements in virtual reality. VR NOW – The Tech Biz Art Conference includes: 1. The VR NOW Conference aims to create a hands-on atmosphere with...
2016 Unity Awards Finalists Announced!
2016 Unity Awards Ceremony Taking Place @ LA on November 1st After reviewing hundreds of nominations and countless hours of deliberation, Unity Technologies has just announced the 2016 Unity Awards finalists, recognizing the year’s best in 2D and 3D games, VR experiences, visuals and much more. From standout titles like Playdead’s INSIDE, Variable State’s Virginia, Lara Croft Go from Square Enix to LandsEnd by...
OrlandoiX 2016 Featuring Virtual Reality, Gaming Showcases, and Interactive Technology
OrlandoiX 2016 Featuring Virtual Reality, Gaming Showcases, and Interactive Technology Taking place at ORLANDO, FL on OCTOBER 14-16, 2016. OrlandoiX is the South’s largest celebration of creators in video games, virtual reality, and immersive experiences. In OrlandoiX 2016, we are seeing more VR related exhibitors and speakers, THE VOID, HTC, Epic Games will be presenting as speakers. Open to professionals and consumers,...
Björk & Unity Team Up For Digital Exhibition @ Somerset House, London
Björk & Unity Team Up For First Live 3D Mocap Stream @ Björk Digital Exhibition The Iceland singer Björk, who’d released one of the world’s first 360 music video for her hit single Stonemilker in 2015, has announced on her Facebook page today, just ahead of the September 1st European debut of the Björk Digital exhibit at Somerset House, the artist herself conducted the world’s first live motion capture streamed press...
How VR Will Alter and Enhance Your Cinematic Experience
How Virtual Reality Will Revolutionize The Movie Experience VR would have an effect on cinema and those who own such businesses wonder how the future will look for them as VR becomes a reality. Cinema owners have seen changes in movie technology and since the 1890s, it has posed challenges to revenue as DVDs or TVs have tried to snare market share from the cinema hall owners. Today VR is set to bring about further changes and real...
Unity Technologies Received $181 Million Series C Led by DFJ Growth
Unity Technologies Announces $181 Million Series C Led by DFJ Growth San Francisco, Calif., July 13, 2016 – – Unity Technologies, the largest global development platform for creating 2D, 3D, VR and AR games and experiences, today announced a $181 Million series C led by DFJ Growth and including China Investment Corporation, FreeS Fund, Thrive Capital and Max Levchin, joining existing investors that include Sequoia Capital...
Winged Minds Studio Launched “CITADEL VR” Kickstarter Campaign
Winged Minds Launching Kickstarter Campaign For CITADEL VR – Real immersive VR Gaming Winged Minds is a small studio from Cartagena (SPAIN) where they are developing “CITADEL VR”, a VR game designed for VR HMD (Head Mounted Display), in which they searching for the best interaction for the gamer in the 3D environment using the spatial control such Oculus Touch and HTC controller, both will be marketed in a few months....
It’s Official! SpaceVR Passing 100K Kickstarter Goal – SpaceVR Is Taking You Space Travel W/ Virtual Reality
SpaceVR Lets You Experience Space Like An Astronaut With Virtual Reality Today, SpaceVR made an super exciting tweet announcing their Kickstarter success! With the help of 1,269 backers from around the world to bring this unprecedented and ambitious VR project to live! Surpassing the goal of 100K. As of now, 25 hours to go before the closing! This news certainly made our day at Virtual Reality Reporter office, we have always...
Lostroom From Russia Developed A Team-Based VR Social Game – Cosmos
Lostroom From Russia Developed A Team Based VR Social Game – Cosmos Lostroom, a Russian VR startup, has developed a 3-6 players team-based, quest genre, escape-room VR gaming experience with the code name Cosmos! Anton Zaytsev from Lostroom is the Creative Director for the Cosmos VR experience. Lostroom is also the creator of real-life escape game Cyberpunk! As soon as Oculus DK2 was available, Zaytsev started to...
Stone Smithereens By Ohhh! Inc. Lets You Kill Flying Stone In Virtual Reality
Stone Smithereens By Ohhh! Inc. Lets You Kill Flying Stone In VR Got tired of shooting people in games such as League of Legend, Counter Strike or The VOID? Now, you can be shooting floating and flying stones for a change! Wake up! Gravity around you adding up so much. Pulling everything toward you. So strong! Nothing escapes. Adding one more stone will make it collapse. You and the entire world into a blackhole. Yes! It is happening....
Potential Of Virtual Reality & Youth Research Infographic By Touch Stone Research
Virtual Reality & Youth Research Infographic By Touch Stone Research Touch Stone Research has conducted an online survey with 500 kids and teenagers in the US, and all participants were drawn to provide even distribution across the ages, 50/50 B/G and nationally representative on the basis of US Census region and ethnicity for kids this age. All participants are between age 10 to 17. Participants were surveyed about...
Zero Latency VR – Wireless VR Multiplayer Combat Gaming
Zero Latency – Immersive Virtual Reality Multiplayer Combat Game Zero Latency, a Melbourne, Australia based VR startup is running one of the first multiplayer virtual reality gaming center. The next generation fully immersive VR gaming experience for the future! Zero Latency VR launched a crowdfunding campaign on Pozible back in 2014, and successfully funded $30.000 with 200 tickets sold, which surpassed the...
Digital Domain Holdings Inc. Live-Streaming International Champion Cup Soccer Tournament
Digital Domain Holdings Live-Streams ICC 2015 W/ LeTV Sports In 2015, Chinese soccer fans will be able to watch and experience International Champion Cup soccer tournament in an immersive 360 degree live-streaming at their homes on a VR headset. The company making this possible is Digital Domain Holdings, one of the world’s largest independent visual effects companies. Digital Domain Partnered W/ Letv Sports...
Sony PlayStation China Press Conference “All For The Gamers” On July 29, 2015
PlayStation China Press Conference @ Intercontinental Shanghai Expo On July 29 Sony Computer Entertainment Asia has confirmed that a special press conference by the English translated name “Playstation China Press Conference – All For The Gamer” will be held before China Joy Expo ( China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference in Shanghai, China on July 29, 2015. How to Watch VR Porn w/ PSVR Update:...
Burning Man VR Camp Launched Kickstarter Campaign – VR @ Black Rock City
Burning Man VR Camp Launched Kickstarter Campaign By Shannon Norrell Burning Man is going to have its first ever VR Camp! The man behind the VR project is Shannon Norrell, a longtime Burner and VR enthusiast. This year, Shannon Norrell is bringing the best of virtual reality and newest VR technology to Burning Man 2015 @ Black Rock City in beautiful Nevada desert! Burning Man – Once In A Lifetime Experience...
Betatron – 360 degree Interactive Virtual Reality Particle Energy Puzzle Game
Betatron – An Immersive 360 Degree Virtual Reality Particle Energy Puzzle Betatron is a VR game developed by game developer Josh Li, which was an Oculus Mobile Jam entry. The game was also showcased at SoCal VR Conference & Expo. Betatron is a 360 immersive puzzle game that put you inside a cubic shaped room with the walls made up of matrix-like neon grids that reminds us of TRON! When inside the VR puzzle...
VirWind: Wind & Airflow Simulator For Virtual Reality Gaming Experience
VirWind: Virtual Reality Airflow & Wind Simulator Launched Kickstarter VirWind is a virtual reality wind simulator, developed by a team based in Stockholm, Sweden and Saint Petersburg. The new VR startup is led by CEO Denis Lipanov and CFO Sergey Tkachenko. VirWind creates wind flow that synchronizes with user’s current gaming or movie experiences. Creating a truly immersive experience is one of the biggest...
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...
The SoCal Virtual Reality Conference & Expo @ UCI
The SoCal VR Conference & Expo @ UC Irvine SoCal VR is a California based Virtual Reality community of VR developers, storytellers, virtual content creators, film producers, journalists, engineers, audio professionals, creative minds, and artists. A partnership alliance formed by Orange County VR, Long Beach VR, and San Diego VR. SoCal VR is hosting their first major event this summer 2015. Be sure to mark your calendar on July 12...
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 &...
Burning Man VR Camp Campaign On Indiegogo
Burning Man VR Camp 2015 On Indiegogo VR Camp at Burning Man is a theme camp project started by Shannon Norrell. Burning Man, which will have over 70,000 people in attendance this year, is made up of various “theme camps” where people can enjoy art and activities. This year will be the first-ever VRCamp. VR Camp Crowd Funding Campaign Update Burning Man VR Camp crowd funding project has been moved from Indiegogo to...
What is Metaverse as a Service? The Complete Guide
What is Metaverse as a Service? The Complete Guide Defining Metaverse as a Service (MaaS) What Is Metaverse as a Service (MaaS)? What is Metaverse as a Service (MaaS), and what does it mean for the future of the digital world? The term “Metaverse as a service” looks exciting, but similar to the metaverse itself, it’s something many creators and innovators don’t fully understand. In broad terms, Metaverse as a Service builds on one of...