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‘ARKTIKA.1’ Review – A Gorgeous VR Shooter, Plain and Simple

Arktika.1 is a first-person VR shooter that makes more than a few smart choices in its design, something that may have you thinking twice before dismissing its admittedly limited node-based teleportation style lock, stock, and barrel (holographic sight and flashlight too)....

‘ARKTIKA.1’ Behind-the-scenes – Insights & Artwork from 4A Games

ARKTIKA.1, now in development for more than two years, is shaping up to be a gritty VR shooter with a AAA look and feel. Ahead of the game's launch on the Oculus Rift we spoke with the game's executive...

The 5 Best VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

As one of the first game genres to embrace VR, sim racing has successfully transitioned from the ‘very early adopter’ stage (using Oculus development kits) to the ‘early adopter’ stage (the first-generation consumer headsets). Now that the majority of...

Hands-on: Google’s New Daydream View Headset With Pixel 2 & Pixel 2 XL

Google today announced the next iteration of their Daydream View headset for virtual reality on Android. We highlighted the changes and improvements in our announcement article, but how does it handle in practice? After watching Google unveiled a range of...

Hands-on: Samsung Odyssey Windows VR Headset & Controllers

Microsoft and Samsung formally announced the Odyssey Windows VR headset today, positioning it as the "premium" option among the Windows VR headsets, with a range of features not found on the other headsets, and the top price point. The...

The 3 Biggest Challenges Facing Augmented Reality Today

With the hype surrounding Apple and Google's (admittedly very cool) AR tracking tech now in the hands of tens of millions of developers and users, you might be tempted to think that immersive augmented reality experiences—delivering the promise of...

‘Project CARS 2’ VR Review – An Ambitious Sequel With Serious Potential

Thanks to its comprehensive VR support on PC, Project CARS 2 is another great showcase for VR sim racing, offering better performance than Project CARS (2015) in a much more compelling package. Addressing many of its predecessor’s shortcomings, the...

Preview: ‘The Gallery: Heart of the Emberstone’

The sequel to Cloudhead Games' early room-scale VR hit, The Gallery: Episode 1 - Call of the Starseed (2016), is nearly here. We got our hands on a limited preview of the soon-to-release Heart of the Emberstone, and if the little we played...

Review: ‘The Gallery: Call of the Starseed’

The Gallery: Call of the Starseed (2016) is a first-person adventure from Cloudhead Games that's unashamedly a 'first' in many categories. As a Vive launch title, it was one of the most cutting-edge adventure games of its time, and although it's showing...

Review: ‘ProjectM: Daydream’

ProjectM: Daydream is a VR dating experience from Korean studio EVR Studio. While it's fairly short and only offers subtitles in a number of major languages to go along with the Korean audio, the experience of sitting across from a...

How VR, AR, & AI Can Change Education Forever – Part 2, Tomorrow’s Solutions

Today’s educational system is static, generalized and puts less focus on individual self-development than it perhaps should. To make matters worse, students often don’t understand why they are learning the things that they’re learning, which makes certain classes feel...

The Easiest Way to Set Up Oculus Rift Room-scale Tracking (without drilling any holes)

While it's true that the Oculus Rift didn't initially support room-scale tracking, Oculus has embraced large-scale tracking, allowing for 360 degree tracking and room-scale gameplay at similar sizes as the HTC Vive. This guide will show you the easiest...

Blending Immersive Theater & VR with ‘Draw Me Close’ by NFB and National Theatre

The National Theatre has created an Immersive Storytelling Studio to better understand the practices, protocols, opportunities of how virtual and augmented reality technologies are creating new storytelling possibilities. They collaborated with the National Film Board of Canada on an...

How VR, AR, & AI Can Change Education Forever – Part 1, Today’s Problems

Education is an odd bird: we all know it could be better, while at the same time it is the best it has ever been in human history. For the last two centuries the world went through a great...

Oracle is Bringing AR and VR Visualization to Its Enterprise IoT Platform

Oracle, one of the world's largest companies, announced new capabilities for their Oracle Cloud enterprise platform that's designed to give large businesses a bird's-eye view of their entire operation through comprehensive monitoring of digital and physical assets. Along with...
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