Contributor: FRΛNK R.
FRΛNK R.
Founder of OVRnews.com. Enjoys learning to code, creating art/drawing, and exploring the next paradigm shift in virtual and augmented reality, spatial computing, and artificial intelligence, as we venture on this immersive journey into the Metaverse.
SXSW 2015: Oculus VR Panel Taking Questions from Fans
March 12, 2015 | FRΛNK R.This year’s South by Southwest (SXSW 2015) festival event in Austin, Texas is gearing up to bring an impressive number of virtual reality sessions, and workshops from some of the industry’s top hardware companies, and gaming studios currently developing for the VR platform.
Oculus Rift Add-On Let’s You Experience ‘Smell-O-Vision’
March 8, 2015 | FRΛNK R.The Oculus Rift virtual reality headset is designed to deliver an immersive visual experience while integrating spatial audio for a truly enhanced sense of “presence”.
However, what would it feel like to use more than just your visual, and audio … Read More
John Carmack ‘The Dawn of Mobile VR’ GDC Video Available Now
March 6, 2015 | FRΛNK R.During GDC 2015, CTO of Oculus John Carmack took to the stage to share his thoughts and opinions on the direction of virtual reality, specifically in regards to the future of the mobile VR platform. The video of the session … Read More
Oculus Releases Audio SDK Preview for Developers
March 5, 2015 | FRΛNK R.During the 2015 CES in January, Oculus VR revealed its own integrated headphones to its latest ‘Crescent Bay’ prototype headset, along with demonstrating its newly licensed 3D positional audio technology from RealSpace 3D, which allows users to experience an entirely new sense of immersion within the … Read More
Oculus Plans to go ‘Full Consumer’ on Gear VR Later this Year
March 4, 2015 | FRΛNK R.At the Game Developers Conference 2015 in San Francisco, Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed that Oculus and Samsung will strategically forge a full-on consumer push for the Samsung Gear VR later this year.
“We have a plan, we have a … Read More
Samsung Announces new Gear VR for Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge
March 1, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Samsung has officially announced an updated version of its Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ headset to work with both newly announced Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 edge smartphones.
The new Gear VR ‘Innovator Edition’ will still be fairly similar to … Read More
Björk’s Next Music Video ‘Stonemilker’ Made for Oculus Rift
February 28, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Björk, the Icelandic iconic pop artist is no strange to experimenting with new innovative technology to her to express her artistic, creative talent.
Her 2013 album, Biophilia, was one of the first albums ever released as an app, that became … Read More
Oculus Mobile VR Jam 2015 Offers $1 Million in Prizes
February 25, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Today, Oculus VR has announced that it will be hosting its own Mobile VR Jam 2015 event that offers developers $1,000,000 in cash prizes for the most innovative VR games and applications developed specifically for the Gear VR Innovator Edition—which … Read More
Don’t Expect VR Input from Oculus at GDC 2015, says Luckey
February 22, 2015 | FRΛNK R.If you expected Oculus to reveal its own VR input solution during GDC 2015 next week, then you may want to set your expectations back to reality.
According to a comment posted on the Oculus Subreddit, Luckey directly responded to … Read More
Facebook Is Working on Virtual Reality Versions of Its Apps
February 18, 2015 | FRΛNK R.Almost a year after Facebook invested $2 Billion to acquire Oculus VR, the social networking giant revealed that it has been working on developing versions of its own applications for use in virtual reality.
During Tuesday’s Code/Media conference in Laguna … Read More
