GDC 2016
PlayStation VR Priced at $399 with October Release Date
At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR headset will cost $399 and is due to ship October 2016.
Sony caused a storm when they announced they were working...
Sony PlayStation VR GDC Event – Live Blog @2pm PST
Sony chose GDC in 2014 to reveal to the world that they would be bringing a virtual reality headset to market, powered by their PlayStation 4 console. Here at GDC 2016, Sony have arranged a special event dedicated to...
GDC 2016: AMD’s Roy Taylor on Radeon Pro Duo for VR Content Creators
Yesterday AMD announced the Radeon Pro Duo water-cooled card, which is a dual-GPU with 16 TFLOPS of single-precision performance that's based on the Fiji architecture and will sell for $1499. Tom's Hardware reports that it "combines two Fiji GPUs,...
Hands-on: Ubisoft’s First Social VR Game ‘Werewolves Within’ Launching this Fall
Red Storm Entertainment, a North Carolina-based Ubisoft studio, is jumping into the world of social VR with Werewolves Within, a unique take on the Russian social deduction game Mafia (also known as Werewolf). We went hands on with the first ever...
Autodesk’s Stingray Game Engine Adds HTC Vive and Oculus SDK 0.8 Support
Autodesk are continuing to push their virtual reality credentials with the latest version of their Stingray game engine which adds expanded VR support including HTC Vive and Oculus SDK 0.8 integration plus a new 3D character creation workflow.
Autodesk, well...
Manus Announces VR Gloves Developer Kit Priced $250, Shipping in Q3
Manus VR are developing what they claim will be the first consumer virtual reality glove and have announced that their first developer kits are to go on sale at $250, developers can grab a pre-order reservation today.
Update: We incorrectly...
AMD Launches ‘Radeon Pro Duo’ Dual GPU Card, Targets VR Content Creators
AMD has unveiled what it's calling the worlds most powerful graphics card, the dual GPU Radeon Pro Duo, and it's targeting the product at virtual reality content creators.
Running consumer virtual reality applications and games is already challenging enough in...
Sulon Q AR / VR Headset Specs and High-res Images, Launches “Late Spring”
AMD's Capsaicin GDC event is over and we now have official high resolution images and technical specifications for the new Sulon and AMD powered augmented and virtual reality headset the Sulon Q.
Billed by Sulon as the world’s first and only...
Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine for HTC Vive, Full Trailer is Here
After a very brief and accidental release last week, ILMxLab's trailer for the Star Wars experience subtitled 'Trials on Tatooine' - a room-scale experiment in the Star Wars universe - is here and we've got the full trailer for...
OptiTrack Shows Off ‘Void’ Style Tracking with VR Basketball Experience at GDC
OptiTrack are well known in industry circles for their specialist motion capture technology, but at GDC this year, the company is turning its attention to wide area virtual reality experiences as it puts it tracking technology to task in...
New Battlezone Trailer Reveals ‘Dynamic Campaign’ Details
Rebellion, the developers behind the VR hover tank title Battlezone, have released a new trailer with fresh footage of the games single player campaign and revealed more details on how the game will play.
One of our favourite VR experiences...
Sulon Q is a “Spatially Aware” VR and AR Headset Powered by AMD, Running Windows 10
Already known primarily for their endeavours in augmented virtual reality headsets, Sulon now look to have partnered with GPU manufacturer AMD to produce what they call "the world’s first and only all-in-one, tether-free, “wear and play” headset for VR, AR...
GameFace Add Ex Sony VR Studio Head Dave Ranyard and iPhone Hacker Geohot to Board
Untethered Android mobile VR headset developer GameFace Labs has today announced an eclectic group of new hires from the world of gaming and hardware hacking. Ex Sony London Studio Head David Ranyard, infamous iPhone ans PS3 hacker George Hotz...
The ‘Big Three’ at GDC 2016 – What to Expect from Oculus, Sony, and HTC/Valve
In what's being widely called the "Year of VR", GDC 2016 will be the first major battle in the War For Your Head. VR headset frontrunners Oculus and HTC/Valve are due to begin shipping the Rift and Vive in less...
3rd Annual VR Mixer GDC Afterparty Tickets on Sale Now, Hosted by SFVR and SVVR
It's that time of year once again. The Bay Area's leading VR communities, SFVR and SVVR, are co-hosting the third-annual VR Mixer, the GDC after-party for the VR industry. Tickets are available now.
VR Mixer kicks off on Monday March...