HTC announced the VR Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a US$10 billion initiative that will put investments into long-term growth in the virtual reality industry. The VRVCA is made up of 30 virtual reality investors from all over the world. They believe that virtual reality is a “transformative technology that will revolutionize entire industries, one that … continue reading
NVIDIA plans on ramping up its efforts to help developers work with virtual reality. The company has been working on virtual reality for about 12 years, and when the company first started, it was mostly in the professional enterprise space, with large immersive display environments. Of course, with the recent boom of consumer headsets from … continue reading
Organizers of Open-Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) have announced a US$5 million developer fund to encourage developers to support the OSVR ecosystem. OSVR was designed to promote an open-source ecosystem that allows VR to work across all VR hardware. The developer fund will be led by gaming hardware and software provider Razer. “We understand content developers … continue reading
Two Big Ears, a company recently acquired by Facebook, is offering its pipeline for cinematic virtual reality and 360 video (including its authoring tools, encoder and rendering engine) for free. Called the Facebook 360 Spatial Workstation, this suite is designed to allow creators to implement VR audio across all devices and platforms. Authoring tools require … continue reading
It wouldn’t be Google I/O without a healthy dose of Android news to discuss, and this year’s event, though vastly different in appearances, still contained numerous new tidbits on Android N and the future of the mobile device platform. Dave Burke, vice president of engineering at Google, took the stage to discuss the company’s mobile … continue reading
Virtual reality headsets can let users play games and enter different worlds, but Oculus is putting VR to good use with its VR for Good program, where philanthropic and socially beneficial projects can get started. With this program, Oculus is looking for 10 rising filmmakers to match with 10 nonprofits so they can tell stories … continue reading
A new Apache Software Foundation project called Milagro is currently incubating, and as of this week, it has received contributions from MIRACL, NTT Innovation Institute and NTT Labs. The organizations contributed authentication code to Milagro as a way to establish a new Internet security framework made of cryptographic service providers called Distributed Trust Authorities. The … continue reading
Microsoft wants to make it easier for developers to access the tools they need to build their mobile, cloud or desktop solutions, regardless of the language or framework. The company has announced the minimal code editor experience that gives developers the core elements of Visual Studio in just a couple of hundred megabytes. The code … continue reading
Google wants to help developers bring virtual reality to their Web and mobile apps. The company has announced VR View, a solution designed to turn images or videos into interactive experiences users can view on their phone, Cardboard viewer or desktop computer. “For developers, having immersive elements in their apps and websites can be the … continue reading
At this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the contrasts against the world of enterprise software were apparent. Instead of Continuous Integration or distributed development in the cloud, discussions focused more on topics such as monetization through ads, VR gear and diversity. The games industry paints an interesting contrast with the business world of … continue reading
Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, technical support or hotfixes for Visual Studio 2005 as of April 12. The company announced it is ending support for all VS 2005 products, components and runtimes included with them. These products include: Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite … continue reading
Oculus Rift won’t be coming to Apple anytime soon, at least not to any of the Apple computers on the market today. According to Shack News, Apple computers aren’t good enough to handle the company’s virtual reality headset. “That is up to Apple. If they ever release a good computer, we will do it,” Palmer … continue reading
