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‘Lone Echo’ Behind-the-Scenes – Insights & Artwork from Ready At Dawn
After more than a decade of working on home and portable consoles, Ready At Dawn last year released Lone Echo and its multiplayer spinoff Echo Arena on the Oculus Rift & Touch. We talked with Ready At Dawn Founder & Chief...
Hands-on: VRHero “5K” Plus Aims for Visual Fidelity Above All Else
VRgineers is a Czech-based startup building a VR headset positioned strictly for the enterprise world. Compared to today's consumer VR headsets, it's undeniably huge and heavy, but a hands-on with their latest VRHero "5K" Plus shows that they're on a...
5 VR Backpack PCs at a Glance
One of the current barriers to immersion for high-end VR headsets is being tethered to a powerful PC. For now, there are two options if you want to eliminate that pesky cable: a special wireless adapter, or a backpack...
The Key Technology Behind Varjo’s High-res ‘Bionic Display’ Headset
Varjo is a relatively new name to the VR scene, but the company is certainly making a buzz, having quickly raised some $15 million in venture capital touting the promise of delivering a VR headset achieving retina resolution at...
Exclusive: Summoning & Superpowers – Designing VR Interactions at a Distance
Manipulating objects with bare hands lets us leverage a lifetime of physical experience, minimizing the learning curve for users. But there are times when virtual objects will be farther away than arm’s reach, beyond the user’s range of direct...
Inside ‘Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire’, the Latest VR Attraction from The VOID
I have always been a huge star wars fan. Watching Luke skywalker and Han Solo fight off the Empire in the original trilogy would work me into a frenzy. I would aim my plastic yellow gun at the TV...
Hands-on: Lenovo Mirage Solo – Strong Fundamentals, Questionable Pricing
At CES 2018 last week, Lenovo revealed the Mirage Solo, the company's standalone Daydream headset. The new device has everything on-board, including inside-out positional tracking, which means it doesn't rely on a smartphone or external computer to drive the...
4 Most Important Stories From CES and What They Mean for VR in 2018
CES 2018 has come and gone, and with it, a pace has been set for what we can expect to see in VR in the next six months or so. If you weren't following the day-to-day news, here's a...
Hands-on: Vive Wireless Adapter Debuts With Robust Connection but Latency Too
Revealed this week at CES 2018, HTC has announced their own Vive Wireless Adapter which promises to break the tether on the Vive and Vive Pro. We went hands-on to see how it handles.
One year after announcing their intent...
Hands-on: Tactical Haptics’ New Controllers Let You Switch Your Grip on the Fly
This week at CES 2018, Tactical Haptics debuted a new prototype of their haptic VR controller which allows the devices to attach and detach on the fly in several different poses for different types of gameplay. The controllers are being...
Hands-on: Pimax “8K” Has Come a Long Way but There’s Still Real Kinks to Iron Out
Pimax, the Chinese VR startup honing in on a consumer headset with a huge field of view, is said to soon be shipping the first Pimax "8K" headsets to Kickstarter backers. While the company executed a very successful Kickstarted...
Hands-on: The Vive Pro is Much More Than an Improved Screen
It might still be rather bulky, but HTC's new Vive Pro brings a host of improvements that have the headset teetering on the edge of next-gen.
Today at CES 2018, HTC revealed the Vive Pro. It isn't the 'Vive 2'—and the...
4 Virtual Reality Desktops for Vive, Rift, and Windows VR Compared
While it’s all too easy to lose ourselves in the countless VR worlds at our fingertips, sometimes we just need to access the desktop and get things done in Windows. Thanks to a few innovative apps, this is possible...
7 Companies Aiming to Cut the Cord on High-end VR Headsets
Today's most immersive virtual reality systems, like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, rely on a bothersome tether to send power and high fidelity imagery to the headset at low latency. But everyone agrees a dangling cable is not...
4 Great VR Party Games to Play With Friends and Family This Holiday
VR is so new that one of the regular activities of VR headset owners is introducing other people to the technology. Usually that means putting one person in a headset and standing around while they take their turn. But a...
