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What to Expect From Top AR/VR Companies at GDC 2018
GDC is here once again, all next week we'll have boots on the ground bringing you the latest VR/AR news. Held annually in San Francisco, Game Developers Conference has undeniably been a focal point for VR the industry, and...
Exclusive: Scaffolding in VR – Interaction Design for Easy & Intuitive Building
There’s something magical about building in VR. Imagine being able to assemble weightless car engines, arrange dynamic virtual workspaces, or create imaginary castles with infinite bricks. Arranging or assembling virtual objects is a common scenario across a range of...
Exclusive: Designing ‘Lone Echo’ & ‘Echo Arena’s’ Virtual Touchscreen Interfaces
Lone Echo nabbed our 2017 Oculus Rift Game of the Year Award for many reasons—amazing visuals, intuitive locomotion, and a strong story, to name a few—but one of the game's unsung innovations is its virtual touchscreen interfaces. While many...
‘The American Dream’ Parodies US Gun Culture, Launching This Week at a Key Moment in Gun...
The American Dream is set to launch on March 14th, and the moment, most unfortunately, couldn't be more timely. The game's gun-fueled gameplay takes US gun culture to the extreme, examining a world where babies are born packing heat...
Oculus Artist’s ‘Quill’ Shorts Show the Incredible Potential of Illustrating & Animating in VR
Quill, Oculus' VR painting and drawing tool, recently saw a major update which added animation tools to the software, allowing users to create animated sequences directly in VR. A resident artist at Oculus has taken to the tool to...
15 Games to Spend That Free $15 Oculus Store Credit On
If you haven't heard, Oculus screwed up pretty badly yesterday when they let a software certification expire, leaving Rift owners without access to any of their games for a full day. Thankfully, there's a fix now, but the company is...
‘Bravo Team’ Review – Shoot, Cover, Rinse, Repeat
Filling something of a gap in Sony's PSVR content lineup, Bravo Team is a cooperative title which aims to bring military shooter style first-person action to the platform. Will you revel in cooperative combat, or is this one bullet worth dodging?
Bravo...
Hands-on: HTC Vive Focus Brings Best-in-class Displays to Standalone VR, For a Price
Now available in China, and quite possibly on its way to a wider release, HTC is prominently showing its new standalone Vive Focus headset at MWC 2018 this week. The company says the Focus is positioned as the premium option among...
‘Moss’ Review (PSVR) – The Opening Chapter of an Adorable Adventurer
Moss, the promising puzzle platformer from indie studio Polyarc, has finally arrived on PlayStation VR. You'll guide Quill, an undeniably adorable mouse, on the start of what could become a grand adventure.
Moss Details:
Official Site
Developer: Polyarc
Available On: PlayStation VR (PlayStation Store)
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Lead FX Artist on ‘ARKTIKA.1’ Shares Strategies for Great Effects in VR
ARKTIKA.1, an Oculus exclusive due to launch later this year, is shaping up to be one of VR's best looking games to date. You'll take it as no surprise that the title is being developed by 4A Games, the developer...
‘Brass Tactics’ Review – a Sturdy Steampowered RTS Lacking a Solid Story
Brass Tactics (2018) is a node-based real-time strategy game that comes with a bit of a pedigree. Created by Hidden Path Entertainment, the minds behind the Defense Grid franchise and Age of Empires II, you'll probably enter the world of Brass...
Understanding the Difference Between ‘Screen Door Effect’, ‘Mura’, & ‘Aliasing’
When it comes to VR headsets, one of today's most noticeable bottlenecks is visual fidelity. When we talk about and compare the visual fidelity of VR headsets we often touch on three key elements: Screen Door Effect, Mura, and...
The Difference Between Smartglasses & AR Glasses, and Why Everyone is Confused
2018 will see the introduction of a number of 'smartglasses'. Initially, very few of these products will be capable of augmented reality, but many of them will be (or already are being) conflated with AR. So here's a quick guide...
‘Sprint Vector’ Review – Innovative Locomotion Makes Adrenaline-soaked Foot Racing a Reality
Sprint Vector (2018) is a VR racing game of a different stripe. Dubbed an "adrenaline platformer" by production studio Survios, the developers behind Raw Data (2017), it actually sticks to some pretty well-established arcade racing tropes pioneered by the Mario Kart franchise. Still, it's...
NextVR’s Latest Tech is Bringing New Levels of Fidelity to VR Video
NextVR, a company specializing in live VR broadcasting of sports and entertainment content, has debuted its latest broadcast technology this week at CES 2018. Parallel with new, more powerful and higher resolution VR headsets, improvements to NextVR's technology are...




















