“It’s about the continuity of the experience,” said Brad Factor. “It’s about maintaining that immersion. It’s about ease of use and the learning curve: not needing to teach somebody how to use VR, but ...

Although there are rigs that allow gamers to walk on the spot while their avatar walks in a VR environment, such setups tend to be large and complex. A new system, however, simulates walking simply by ...

[Mark Dufour]’s TACO VR project is a sort of robotic platform that mimics an omnidirectional treadmill, and aims to provide a compact and easily transportable way to allow a user to walk naturally in ...

Japanese researchers have developed a new virtual reality program that is designed to mimic the sensation of walking. It mimics the sensation of walking by stimulating the feet while the user sits ...

A recent trip to the Augmented Reality Expo got me thinking about a big issue with virtual reality: unless you have an empty warehouse lying around, your VR gaming experience is going to be limited by ...

Quill is a brilliant VR drawing and animation app originally born within the now shuttered Oculus Story Studio. The app continued on after the group’s closure, but with seemingly few long term plans ...

Meta has revived its VR Animation Player (2019) with the new release of Theater Elsewhere, a fresh iteration of the free animation player app that allows users to experience immersive, hand-painted ...

Baobab Studios, a firm that specialises in virtual reality animation, has closed a round of Series B funding to the tune of $25 million. The funding will be used to create more animated movies ...

Taiwan is making a strong showing at this year’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market, with several projects across competition and market sections as the world’s premier animation ...