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‘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...

‘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...
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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...
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