Google Cardboard VR Introduces VR view

Introducing VR view: embed immersive content into your apps and websites | Google Blog

So Google announced that it will add a VR view functionality to the Google Cardboard SDK. This new feature will allow you as a developer or website owner to integrate VR images and video early. All you need is a few lines of code and you are all set to make you website or application more immersive for VR users.

VR views take 360 VR images or videos then make them into virtual reality experiences that users can view on a phone, with Cardboard VR, or on the computer. Native apps can embed a VR view by grabbing the latest Cardboard SDK for Android or iOS* . Embedding a VR view on the web is as simple as adding an iframe on your site.

I can’t wait to see what all the developers will do with this new feature. I think that this will enable more opportunities for example maybe snapchat might use this in their app.

Google Cardboard VR Introduces VR view

Abbey Road Studios with Cardboard VR

Take a virtual step into Abbey Road Studios | Google Blog

Now you can go even further and experience inside the studios, using Google Cardboard and your handy dandy smartphone.

To get this virtual reality experience, get the app , then start your journey with a 9 part guide  by Giles Martin.

Uncover one of Abbey Road’s Mastering Suites, where a record gets its finishing touches before a release. In Studio 1, experience what it’s like to be in a recording session with the London Symphony Orchestra with surround sound.

Inside Abbey Road for Cardboard VR, you can get closer to the history and innovation of the most famous music studios in the world.

Abbey Road Studios with Cardboard VR

Cardboard Camera app for Cardboard VR

Cardboard Camera app for Cardboard VR | Google Blog

Now you can see your amazing panoramic pictures in a full 360 view with Google Cardboard VR  with this new app announced by Google. Cardboard Camera turns the smartphone in your pocket into a virtual reality (VR) camera.

VR photos are three-dimensional panoramas, with slightly different views for each eye, so near things look near and far things look far. With Cardboard Camera, anyone can create their own VR experience.

Taken with Cardboard Camera at Jackson Lake, Wyoming. | Google Blog

 This picture above simulates the 3D effect when seen in a Cardboard viewer. I think that is pretty awesome virtual reality tech news.

Cardboard Camera is available today on Google Play in 17 languages.

Cardboard Camera app for Cardboard VR

HTC Vive at GDC Info

Partners and developers were showing experiences on the HTC Vive | HTCVive.com

The GDC attracts over 26,000 attendees where Valve unveiled The Lab which Forbes reported“is a collection of mini-games developed to introduce players to the various mechanics VR brings to the table. Stuff like room-scale, projectile physics, locomotion, and interaction with the environment among others.”

In addition to The Lab, HTC Vive invited over 30 developers to showcase their experiences in the Valve booth. These experiences included Selfie Tennis, Adventure Time, Arizona Sunshine and many more.

Another experience that had the conference attendees talking was Black Shield from China-based developer V-Sensory.

Finally, ILMxLab released their trailer for Trials on Tatooine which will allow everyone to live out their childhood fantasy of wielding a lightsaber against the Dark Side.

HTC Vive at GDC Info

Stress Level Zero Vive VR Game

Vive: This is Real – Stress Level Zero | HTCVive.com

HTC Vive traveled to Los Angeles, California to visit the offices of Stress Level Zero who are working on Hover Junkers for Vive. Check out the video below.

Vive is available for pre-order now at www.htcvive.com

Stress Level Zero Vive VR Game

HTC Vive CES 2016

Second Generation Developer Kit, the Vive Pre | HTCVive.vom

The HTC Vive was well received at CES 2016 with over 20 partners showing the Vive on the show. Numerous guests had a chance to try out the second generation Developer Kit, the Vive Pre.

HTC Vive partners were showing off multiple use cases for Vive Pre and the technology it offers. Check out the HTC Vive CES recap videos below.

 

HTC Vive CES 2016

The Oculus Rift will be Shipping

Oculus Rift is Shipping | Oculus.com

Oculus Rift deliveries begin today soon people all over the world will be experiencing fully-immersive VR in their own homes. Kickstarter units will start arriving today, and the first pre-ordered Rifts will start shipping mid-week and arrive soon after.

You can order a Rift on Oculus.com or purchase an Oculus Ready PC and Rift bundle from Amazon, BestBuy and Microsoft Store.

Dozens of VR games, 360 videos, film shorts,  an incredible lineup of more than 30 games available on the Oculus Store.

Oculus Video for Rift launches today with thousands of Facebook 360 videos. Oculus 360 Photos, you can explore over 200,000 incredible destinations. You’ll relax on a beach in the tropics, peer over a mountaintop in the Alps, and enjoy amazing scenes from across the universe. Every Rift comes with Oculus Dreamdeck, a unique set of VR vignettes designed to introduce you to the world of virtual reality.

Oculus announce Farlands, a tiny alien world that comes with your Rift. It’s a new kind of virtual reality experience created by Oculus that’s built with Epic’s UE4 and designed for Rift.

Oculus PC SDK 1.3 is now available on the Oculus Developer Center. You can download the SDK here, and read more about building experiences for Rift on the developer blog.

The Oculus Rift will be Shipping