A collection of news highlights from GDC and VRDC

Journal entry from Micah Blumberg

Journal entry from Micah Blumberg

Oculus announced Oculus Start a new program for VR developers, you can join for free and you get a year of Unity Plus for free for joining visit developer.oculus.com for details.

Oculus also announced the release of Platform Level Stats Reports, its a 28 day rolling report on Oculus hardware statistics for developers to look at, it includes Oculus Hardware Phone Model Statistics to help developers make informed decisions.

Oculus Developer Center | Overview
Oculus is the platform for developing PC, Mobile and Web virtual reality experiences.developer.oculus.com

Watch this new Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhBlmKtEAk

Read this Nvidia blog post about this new technology https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/03/19/whats-difference-between-ray-tracing-rasterization/

What's the Difference Between Ray Tracing, Rasterization? | NVIDIA Blog
You've seen this movie before. Literally. There may not be many people outside of computer graphics who know what ray…blogs.nvidia.com

Atari revealed more information about it’s new game console intended for your television.

“Atari Unveils the Atari VCS “Video Computer System” and its Controllers

Atari unveils the official name, logo, and controller peripherals of what was previously called the Ataribox, and is now the Atari VCS.” https://www.dualshockers.com/atari-vcs-video-computer-system-unveiled/

Atari Unveils the Atari VCS "Video Computer System" and its Controllers
Today at Game Developers Conference, Atari took another step in unveiling its upcoming hardware platform, that now has…www.dualshockers.com

Budget Cuts a Virtual Reality Game Application receives a release date: May 16th 2018 for SteamVR and Oculus Rift. http://neatcorporation.com/

Neat Corporation
Sugar, Spice, and Everything Neat, Linnea is the personification of rainbows and lives to make unforgetable experiences.…neatcorporation.com

Unity and Magic Leap are partnering to make it easier for developers to create apps for the Augmented Reality glasses. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/19/take-the-next-leap-unity-and-magic-leap-partner-to-deliver-technical-preview/

Take the Next Leap: Unity and Magic Leap Partner to Deliver Technical Preview - Unity Blog
We are proud to partner with Magic Leap to integrate the Magic Leap platform with Unity. For all creators looking to get…blogs.unity3d.com

Magic Leap opened it’s creator portal yesterday for developers

https://www.magicleap.com/

Magic in the Making
This is Magic Leap. We're adding another dimension to computing where digital respects the physical. First stop: Magic…www.magicleap.com

Incase you missed the news the HTC Vive with controllers and base stations dropped in price you can now get it for $499 https://www.vive.com/us/ The Vive Pro price for the headset alone without a base station or controllers was announced to be $799. It remains to be seen how well the Vive Pro will sell but it’s price is higher than many people expected and a lot of folks online in Virtual Reality groups seem to be upset by the high price which is greater than expected.

VIVE™ | Discover Virtual Reality Beyond Imagination
VIVE is a first-of-its-kind virtual reality system. Let yourself be visually, physically and emotionally amazed by new…www.vive.com

“Disney’s Latest Research Project Can Turn Scripts Into Virtual Reality” http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/disney-research-cardinal-previz-vr-1202730650/

Disney's Latest Research Project Can Turn Scripts Into Virtual Reality
Disney Research has been working on a way to turn natural language scripts into virtual reality (VR) pre-visualizations.…variety.com

At GDC we saw Mixcast demo Mixed Reality without a Greenscreen using the Intel Realsense Camera

Mixed reality solutions for VR broadcasting | MixCast
Augmented Virtuality is an exciting new medium that allows for a more engaging experience for spectators! Augmented…mixcast.me