VR and AR Digest: November

The virtual reality market will be valued at $ 19 billion by 2019. Other forecasts about the future of VR, reviews of the latest inventions and the latest news can be found in our digest.



news

NVIDIA is teaming up with Stanford researchers to improve the technical side of virtual reality devices.
Google Play will remove the games with the word cardboard in the title.
Amazon would like to see augmented reality without devices that are worn on the head .
Microsoft will distribute $ 500 thousand as grants for application development for HoloLens.
Nokia is preparing to release a camera that will shoot a 360-degree video.
Samsung has released a browser for Gear VR .
YouTube announced support for a 360-degree video .
The first game of the NBA season will be broadcast in VR format .
NY Times launched a VR app with a free distribution of Google Cardboard.
Google continues to distribute virtual reality devices to schoolchildren and students.
Everest VR will allow you to climb the highest mountains .
Due to horror in virtual reality, the European Federation of Interactive Software may revise rating systems .
Researchers have created a physical hologram from a swarm of flying drones .
The application from Samsung gives you the opportunity to try the virtual Gear S2 .
Investors have invested more than $ 14 million in a startup Eyefluence , which is developing a data entry system using the eyes for VR / AR devices.
Disney and Google have announced the release of new content in VR format for Google Cardboard on iOS and Android platforms based on the upcoming new part of Star Wars.
The DriveClub demo for PlayStation VR was shown in 1080p / 60fps for a limited circle of people at Paris Games Week.
Mike Bitell announced the release of Volume: Coda, a free extension for the PlayStation VR to play on PS4 in the stealth genre.
NVIDIA platforms for VR.
Wooga CEO Jens Begemann said that the company is not going to engage in VR development.
Unity at Vision Summit 2016 .
AdsOptimal launched a VR platform for online and app advertising.
Asus officially announced plans to release augmented reality glasses.
Over the past year, investors have invested $ 1 billion in AR- and VR-startups.
Icelandic VR studio Sólfar received a $ 2.1 million investment .
Volvo, in partnership with Microsoft, has been working on a project for half a year, thanks to which the advantages of cars can be assessed using virtual reality glasses .
Icelandic CCP Games, known for its MMORPG EVE Online, received $ 30 million to create VR content.
Amazon may release augmented reality glasses.
Apple for the first time demonstrated its own virtual reality project - a 360-degree music video from U2 for the song “Song for Someone”.
Microsoft fired 30 employees of the Israeli division of the company who worked on the creation of virtual reality glasses.
Oculus Social Alpha invites to meet in the virtual space .
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It is interesting

EA about VR : "We will wait and see how big this market will be."
Credit Suisse estimates that next year 5 million Oculus devices will be sold .
Dinosaurs and Development Tools : An Interview with David Bowman, Production Director (Crytek).
nDreams : "We choose everything at once, and not just one thing."
2016 is the year of virtual reality . But is virtual reality ready?
Sundance and Jaunt are looking for people who can predict the development of VR cinema.
VR-simulator for mice helps scientists study Alzheimer's disease .
Become a nice teddy bear with Oculus Rift and Adawarp.
Jason Giambi is confident that virtual reality will allow to train the best batter .
Brands play virtual reality in a big way.
North Face with the help of virtual reality immerse customers in extreme conditions .
Facebook explains the technology of its 360-degree videos.
An application that demonstrates environmental radio pollution .
Tips for VR developers : determining the point at which the user is looking.
Video : reports from Oculus Connect 2 and some demos from the company.
Fascinating design : how to go beyond the screen.
The life cycle of a PlayStation VR will be about the same as that of the PlayStation 4.
How we broadcast the game on GearVR without sacrificing performance.
Why brands and marketers should start using technology 360-degree video and virtual reality.
Did Google show its VR trojan ?
Visit the museum of digital art in real life or in virtual reality.
When will virtual reality become mainstream ?
In Facebook, VR intersects with marketing.
6 brands that already use virtual reality technology in their applications.
Sony released a video from the TGS show, where people talk about their experiences with the PlayStation VR.
Palmer Lucky called the main drawback of virtual reality helmets.
Winners of the Google app contest show what Project Tango is capable of .
Virtual immersion into the reality of the Hunger Games.
Demonstration of HoloLens streaming capabilities using the example of HALO 5.
Tesla vs DeLorean VR race .
Uncharted, VR and what was not said on the Sony show. Interview with Jim Ryan.
Hyundai make the user manual much more interesting with the help of augmented reality.
David Helgason : "Virtual reality is damn risky."
The head of CCP Games believes that virtual reality technology will make a real revolution.
The president of PlayStation believed in virtual reality after seeing God of War VR.
At the conference WSJDLive presented a video about Magic Leap.
Tim Sweeney believes that the gaming market of VR-devices will develop as a console, and not as a mobile.
Peter Pashley (Ustwo Games) is confident that the future of VR is mobile.
Virtual reality in Yandex. Taxi.
Pros and cons of the explosive growth of the virtual reality market in the coming years.
The virtual reality market will be valued at $ 19 billion by 2019.
Critical mass of virtual reality.
Virtual reality: a new creative environment , where the default state is faith.

Devices

Immerge - a ball of Lytro cameras for shooting VR video.
Sales of Samsung Gear VR started in the UK, in the USA they are available for order at $ 99.
Samsung Gear VR Review . The best way to get acquainted with virtual reality closer.
Figment VR is an iPhone case that turns into a virtual reality device .
In some cinemas you can play a demo version of the game based on the Paranormal Phenomenon movie series .
PlayStation VR demo video .

Games

Arcade shooter Gunjack for Samsung Gear VR was launched in the UK.
New shooter on the PlayStation VR - roller coaster of horrors .
We leave from the garage into the virtual reality in order to play Dungeons and Dragons .
Videogame Outsiders creates VR art that makes you think.
A new game in the Crytek VR Robinson: The Journey format will also be released on PS4 .
Interview with CEO Starbreeze Andersen Klymnt about the creation and promotion of the game John Wick VR and much more.
Until Dawn, a first-person shooter DLC is in development for the PlayStation VR.
Oculus Concepts in the Gear VR's Oculus Store section collect experimental VR games .
Paris Games Week 2015. Tekken 7 will be released on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation VR.