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‘The Assembly’ Review
The Assembly is a first-person adventure game that wants to put your moral fiber to the test. Much like a novel, the game alternates back and forth between two characters: a brilliant neurologist entering the shadowy research institute eponymously dubbed 'The Assembly', and...
Hands-on: NVIDIA Launches GTX 1060 and Benchmarks Against AMD’s RX 480
Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's GTX 1060, the least expensive of the company's 10-series GPUs so far revealed. According to Nvidia, the GTX 1060 matches the performance of the former flagship card, the GTX 980, but at only...
Oculus Rift Growth Spurt Halts HTC Vive Market Share Expansion
There's been a lot of talk about the latest data from Valve's latest Steam Hardware & Software survey, most of it drawing erroneous conclusions about overall market share of VR headsets while missing out on a very interesting data...
‘Raw Data’ Deep Dive: Alongside Early Access Launch, Devs Reveal Four Heroes, Weapons, and Abilities
The long anticipated Raw Data by developer Survios launches for the HTC Vive on Steam today in Early Access. We sat down with Survios to get an inside look at what players can expect now and in the future...
In Search of the Pyjama People: VR’s New Wave of Bedroom Coders
Matthew Magee ponders virtual reality's potential impact on game development culture and how immersive technology may encourage a renaissance in independent, disruptive bedroom coders a.k.a the Pyjama People.
Guest Article by Matthew Magee
A twenty year career as a Software Engineer started in...
Review: ‘DiRT Rally’ VR
Available on the Oculus Store today (and via an update for the existing Steam version), DiRT Rally is the latest driving game to receive a VR makeover with Oculus Rift support. Originally drifting its way onto PC in April...
Why New Social VR App ‘Rec Room’ Makes You Smile
Rec Room is a new social VR platform for HTC Vive from indie studio Against Gravity, and as a project currently in Early Access for the low low cost of absolutely free, it's quickly becoming a success on Steam. At the time of this writing, more...
HTC Vive Headset Nearing 100,000 Install Base, Steam Data Suggests [Update]
While between HTC/Valve and Oculus, the companies have been coy on official sales figures, Steam data suggests that the HTC Vive install base is approaching the 100,000 mark.
Having launched just about three months ago on April 5th, the HTC...
Stepping Inside ‘Ghostbusters: Dimension’, the VOID-powered Mixed Reality ‘Ride’
Standing in the lobby for thirty minutes, watching the crowd lumber by in the distinctive mode of Times Square tourists, overlain with the Ghostbusters theme (endlessly looped), I thought, without any special vigor, about where I was, and why...
HTC-led Venture Capital Consortium Represents $10 Billion Earmarked for VR
This week at MWC Shanghai, HTC announced the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance (VRVCA), a consortium of 28 venture capital firms focusing their funds on virtual reality. Collectively, the group represents more than $10 billion in capital aimed at...
‘Pokémon Go’ is Where I Draw the Line on “Augmented Reality”
The announcement video for Pokémon Go, an "augmented reality" game for smartphones, opens by asking us to "imagine Pokémon in the real world." And imagination is exactly what you'll need to consider the game as landing anywhere within the realm of augmented reality.
Pokémon Go might be...
How to Sharpen Your HTC Vive’s Visuals with Supersampling
Want to substantially improve image quality whilst immersed in your HTC Vive? Here's details of a new tweak that allows you to engage supersampling in SteamVR and compatible games with the resulting differences impressive - as long as your...
CTO on Future of the StarVR Headset: Roomscale Tracking, Input, Eye-tracking, and More
At E3 2016 I got to sit down with the CTO of Starbreeze Studios, Emmanuel Marquez, to learn about the company's ambitious plans for their StarVR headset. The headset, which sets itself apart from others with a massive 210 degree...
Hands-on: ‘VR Sports Challenge’ Hockey Brings Thrilling Fights
VR Sports Challenge, an upcoming Oculus Touch title, has yet again proven to be one of the most compelling launch titles we've seen so far for Oculus' controllers. In the new Hockey segment shown off at E3 2016 I had...
Major Gaming Industry Players Jump into VR at E3 2016
E3 2016 has come to a wrap. The usual suspects were there in force, but this year's E3 also set the stage for significant announcements from major gaming industry players who have committed to joining the VR industry.
1. Microsoft...







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