The Weekly VRap Up: From Lucky's Award to Sir Paul's Performance

It has been a busy week this week in Virtual Reality, but we’ve got you covered here at UPLOAD with our weekly VRap Up:

Industry News:

• BBC news reports, Magic Leap partners with Gravity VFX studio, Framestore to create an experience for the Manchester International Festival, will likely be the first public appearance by the product.

• Palmer Lucky wins the 2014 World Technology Award.

• Specta7 Microsystems rumored to have received a 500,000 unit order from Oculus for their chipset technology, hints at what could be the final resolution for the CV1.

• NASA’s virtual reality set up takes things to the next level.

Kickstarter:

• DODOcase’s DIYVR Kickstarter launches and reaches its $25,000 funding goal in its first week.

• Mark Farid announces he plans to spend a month in VR living someone elses life, launches Kickstarter to help cover costs of the social/art experiment.

• Innervision Games, lead by Tony Davison one of the creators behind Riven, launches its Kickstarter for Ethereon, a VR puzzle adventure in the vein of games like Myst.

Gaming:

• Sixense shows off the responsiveness of the STEM system with an impressive ping pong demo.

• VRFocus reports, EA has been ‘experimenting’ with VR and that they plan to create AAA titles ‘if the platform takes off.’

• Take Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says the studio behind GTA V will be ‘first in line’ to produce VR content if that is what consumers demand.

• Highly anticipated VR game, Elite: Dangerous launches its beta.

Entertainment:

• Taylor swift and American express team up for an interactive 360-degree video experience.

• Paul McCartney and Jaunt VR release 360-degree video recording of “Live and Let Die” live at Candlestick Park in SF.

• DreamWorks gives us a glimpse into what they envision VR cinema experiences to be.