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CES 2015: Interview with OSVR HDK Creators, ‘HDK is Not a Razer Headset’

After yesterday's announcement of the new Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) project, Ben Lang sits down with two of the key players in the project; Yuval Boger, CEO at Sensics and Chris Mitchell, Senior Product Manager at Razer. Yesterday, Razer...

The 10 ‘Must-Have’ Oculus Rift Apps and Games of 2014

Any way you slice it, 2014 has been an incredible year for VR. So, as we rapidly approach the close of the best year consumer VR has ever known, we attempt the impossible and pick our 10 games or...

Latest in Professional VR Shown at I/ITSEC 2014 Conference

Deep inside the inlands of Florida, a technology conference was held that brought together a collection of virtual reality headsets and simulations that focused primarily on military applications. The event was called I/ITSEC (Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference) and...

Comcast NBCUniversal Hosts Hackathon in Hollywood, VR Demos Emerge

A collection of virtual reality experiences were developed during a 24 hour coding marathon hosted by Comcast NBCUniversal in Hollywood earlier this month. We dropped in quickly after just getting back from the Samsung Developer Conference 2014 to investigate what...

News Bits: GTA V Publisher on VR Support “.. we’ll be first in line to give...

Take Two Interactive, publishers of the phenomenally successful Grand Theft Auto franchise have gone on record stating that if there is customer demand for virtual reality support in their games, it's ready to provide it. GTA VR Grand Theft Auto V,...

Beautiful Hi-Res Images of Samsung’s ‘Project Beyond’ Surface, Along with New Video

Think Tank Team, the alias given to Samsung's 'Research America' group have launched a website celebrating the research, design and engineering that went into Project Beyond, Samsung's newly announced 3D 360 VR Camera tech. Form, Function Samsung's San Jose based research...

A Preview of Oculus’ Newly Licensed Audio Tech Reveals Stunning 3D Sound (download)

After 2 years of Oculus putting their collective brains and talents to solving the "hard problems" of VR displays and low latency head tracking, at Oculus Connect this year, we heard a new topic beginning to garner attention: VR...

Zombies on the Holodeck Wins ‘Best Overall’ at Proto Awards, Winners Took Home Nvidia’s New GTX...

At the first ever Proto Awards last week, Zombies on the Holodeck, developed by Survios, took home three awards including Best Overall. The event was a resounding success, honoring innovative work happening in the young VR industry. Nvidia, one...

Oculus Connect: Learnings from UE4 Engine Integration and Demos – Live Blog @ 3:30pm PDT

"We’ll give a high-level overview of how we integrated the Oculus Rift hardware into Unreal Engine 4, with a focus on tricks we used to reduce latency and optimize the engine. Additionally, we’ll go through the successes, failures, and...

VRTGO 2014: Sony CEE – ‘Rebooting Game Design for Virtual Reality’, Live Blog @15:30 GMT

For developers who have predominantly worked in traditional screen-based game development, moving into development for VR titles can be a journey full of surprises, requiring new ways of approaching existing gameplay conceits and presenting many fresh opportunities for interaction...

VRTGO 2014: RSI – ‘Supporting VR in Star Citizen’, Live Blog @14:00 GMT

Star Citizen is of course the space combat game funded by a hugely successful crowdfunding campaign, which has pledged support for the Oculus Rift. With VR still a developing technology, many games may opt to support VR rather than build...

VRTGO 2014: CCP Games – ‘EVE: Valkyrie – The Making of a Cross-platform VR Exclusive’, Live...

EVE: Valkyrie is a VR-exclusive, fast-paced space dog-fighting game from EVE: Online creators CCP Games. As one of the first games to showcase the incredible possibilities of VR technology in games, EVE: Valkyrie has played a pivotal role in...

Darknet is Coming to Samsung Gear VR, Developer E-McNeill Shares Thoughts

Today's flood of content announcements following Samsung's Gear VR announcement is starting to look like a procession of VR's old guard classics. Darknet, Oculus Rift enabled hacking game originally conceived during an Oculus sponsored VR Jam competition (and finally...

New DK2 Enabled Senza Peso Featured by Epic Games at Pax Prime, Download it Now

I took a look at a very early version of a DK2 enabled Senza Peso demo recently (see the above video) just after Oculus' second VR Headset shipped and it remains one of the most impressive VR showcases out...

The Proto Awards Submission Deadline Extended to September 2nd

The Proto Awards are being held by the Virtual Reality Foundation, a non-profit organization formed by the founding members of VRLA. The organization has extended the deadline for submissions to September 2nd and encourages "all developers to submit their VR...
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